Firefox or Opera?

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 19 Nov 2006, 08:21

Last time I checked, opera basicly doesn't have a functional bookmark exporter. Firefox exports a text file when you bookmark export. They are very easy to manage and modify. If for no other reason that why you should use Firefox as opposed to opera.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 19 Nov 2006, 10:57

mehere101 wrote:I think I'll stay with firefox. I love my extensions, can't live without em. Plus, I haven't ever encountered an error in Firefox that isn't caused by NoScript. That is one of the things I love, coupled with AdBlock, and my various other little addons.

You are forgetting the memory holes...

bamb · Post by **bamb** » 19 Nov 2006, 16:22

Firefox 1.5 started annoying with the memory problems, so I moved to Opera a few months ago. It took some time to get used to this, and I thought FF was better ergonomy-wise, but now that FF 2.0 is out, it behaves better but I've found out I've kinda gradually started to like some features in Opera. Some web pages work better.

For example, in firefox 2.0, links to generated webpages don't always turn to purple after clicking, making it hard to browse some forums as you don't know what topics you've already read and what have new posts...

Flashblock rules for Firefox though. It doesn't load flash but there's a window with a play icon instead, and if you press it, it loads the flash. Better than the Opera content filter / feature turn on off, because you can keep flashblock on all the time.

I'd say both have their good and bad sides, I'd give them both the same grade.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 19 Nov 2006, 17:07

I have Flash disabled except for whitelisted websites and put the "Enable Plug-Ins" checkbox next to the address bar for the very rare occassion when I want to watch something from a site I haven't whitelisted.

ZellSF · Post by **ZellSF** » 19 Nov 2006, 17:26

SwiftSpear wrote:Last time I checked, opera basicly doesn't have a functional bookmark exporter. Firefox exports a text file when you bookmark export. They are very easy to manage and modify. If for no other reason that why you should use Firefox as opposed to opera.

Last time you checked must be very long ago. You can export both to Opera's bookmark format and html in Opera.

If you cared about bookmarks, you'd use K-Meleon though, which supports most Mozilla bookmark formats, Opera bookmarks and Internet Explorer bookmarks. The last format being the best of them.

I just use del.icio.us, so it doesn't really matter to me what my browser does with bookmarks.

AF · Post by AF » 19 Nov 2006, 20:23

Flash controls only run when you click on them, this is true of Opera and IE 7.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 19 Nov 2006, 21:48

Flash runs normally in Opera even before you click it but it won't receive mouseovers or clicks before you click the control once.

Erom · Post by **Erom** » 20 Nov 2006, 03:53

I hate IE for the obvious reason, swapped to firefox, and tried opera but had it fail on several webpages I read frequently, so back to firefox I went. I figure opera will be the better browser once it gets a bit more common and webdesigners start designing with it in mind.

bamb · Post by **bamb** » 20 Nov 2006, 15:19

Which version of opera didn't render right? I have opera 9 and haven't yet encountered a bad page.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 20 Nov 2006, 20:43

I have encountered some but that was probably because they were either optimized for IE6 or had problems with the way I handle cookies.

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 20 Nov 2006, 23:57

FF cause it is not IE

haven't tried Opera though it looks interesting

Spring RTS Engine

Firefox or Opera?