Opera 9.5 Beautifully Engineered

[Seeker 0]

For all you Opera users out there, check out the new version. Looks and feels even better then before.

Opera 9.5 Beautifully Engineered

Post your thoughts, on it. And dont forget to test Dragonfly. ;)

[Greg 0]

This is very annoying/frustrating.

It was literally just a week ago that I switched to FF3 as my main browser. All the things, big and small, that were really keeping me in Opera have been resolved. I don't think much of the new default skin, it's fine, I don't wouldn't use it. Opera is still the best out-of-the-box browser though as far as I'm concerned, and I'd definitely recommend that people try it as they may just prefer it to FF.

Dragonfly looks pretty nice. I'm seriously torn between which browser to use now.

[Big Muscle 1]

use Opera, it's much faster, secure and eats less memory than FF ;-) I just don't like Opera new skin.

[Seeker 0]

Meh, skins are skins. I like it, its better then before thats for sure. And one of the things i reallly like is Dragonfly and startup time. Even IE7 and Safari are faster then FF, not to mention Opera beats them all. And everything else.. But its for you alone to judge.

Ohh and by the way. Silverlight 2 works on Opera now. You will see ****loads of RIA's on MS platform out very soon.

[Satan 1]

Ehm....I looked at the website and it only really got pictures. Explain to me what opera has that FF doesn't?

[Seeker 0]

For one out-of-box Opera is 10 times faster then out-of-box Firefox which really has nothing until you put like 20 extensions on it to get similar functionality, and then Firefox eats like 200MB of RAM, and takes forever to load. And what i really hate is everything i change in FF needs a restart.

Just install both and compare. If you really prefer slow and IE like browsing, with some twisted over-extended functionality that you get with extensions that you use. Then by all means use it.

For example the bugmenot extension for FF is really great, and saves you time when bypassing sites, but do you use that 100 times a day to make a difference? or do you just prefer your pages opened 10 times faster with Opera, couse this is what you will be doing most of the time and not bypassing sites? and also Opera has a bugmenot widget too. So compare again.

This is my last post on this matter, couse this is yet again gonna go flame way.

[Satan 1]

Just 2 points.

1. FF is fast for me, it only uses 45Mb RAM.

2. I don't use Bugmenot

[spyke 0]

Ive been using the beta for quite some time, the final release is quite an improvement over 9.27 ;)

[Satan 1]

Well I installed it on my downstairs machine, xp system, i'll only be using it very rarely, (it's just a server) so expect a report back in 6 months letting you know my thoughts :(

[Crise 26]

This opera vs FF is a never ending subject... I personally usually use both, though I prefer FF because of extensions like firebug and colorzilla :(

[Greg 0]

This opera vs FF is a never ending subject... I personally usually use both, though I prefer FF because of extensions like firebug and colorzilla

Opera pretty much have most of the functionality that Firebug offers now, through Dragonfly.

@Big Muscle, Seeker: Firefox isn't that slow anymore in version 3. Opera is probably still faster, but it's not very noticeably faster. Also, Firefox doesn't use as much RAM anymore, it's probably about the same as Opera for me at the moment, and I have like 15-20 extensions installed.