Best Web Browser (better than firefox and IE)

I have been having problems with firefox crashing alot myself here lately. Don't really know why, never really had any problems. The crashing started this past weekend. Opera does look nice, maybe I will give it a try as well.

Yeah firefox used to be good for me too, then it would always stop working and id have to end the process in task manager. plus its kind of slow to load up in the first place.

firefox works perfect for me. never had a single problem with it.

have you tried typing in "firefox crashing" in google? you will see it is a regular, kinda well-known problem. Everyone I know has had the same problem. Thats the reason I didnt start using it. Reasons go from yahoo application doing it, java doing it, to a glitch in update, to having to completely uninstall to update, and on and on and on.

OP - I second this - Opera is way faster than IE (dont talk about this in regard to Firefox - which is a disgrace) - it uses less memory than IE (again we dont wanne mention FF behaviour in this regard) - and Opera can be be 'skinned' nicely - another nice feature is the 'build-in' add blocker - called 'content blocker' anyone could give this thing a try - you'll see.

I never managed to get the Cookie Exceptions from disabling them to work with Opera.

And I also don\'t have any of these problems mentioned here with FF.
The front page of GLP loads within about 1,5 seconds normally.

I use faster fox and no script extensions.

opera loads in about .3 seconds

OK 133770, I must admit that sounds good.

FYI, tabbed browsing was invented by Net Captor, one of those faceplate-for-IE type browsers. I've been using Opera since 1999, trying to use Firefox or IE makes me sick, and the people that respond to Opera by being smug about IE or Firefox like they think they know something make me sick too. It has to be the sign of a dumbass to pretend you prefer IE or Firefox. BUT NEVERTHELESS the current Opera eats memory like peanuts, I can tell because on this low ram machine it soon starts buttfucking the harddrive like a famished sailor if I dare try to go to ebay with other tabs open. What we have here is a situation where modern PC's have so much ram and horsepower and high speed internet connections that any piece of crap at all seems 'fast', but if you try them on a 5 year old PC with just 56k dialup you will see that EVERYBODY has gotten lazy and sloppy in their coding. I don't give a damn that Opera has widgets, what I care is that it doesn't work with lycos email at random intervals and online shopping and billpaying is haphazard and reckless too. Also Opera no longer responds to bug reports; these problems have been in it since after 8.01 or so and they still won't fix them.

Call this an unfair generalization, but everybody everywhere sucks these days and they're too stupid to even realize it. No wonder the Chinese are eating us alive in industry.

Set your cache space to zero!

I agree tho. i put windows xp on this old 400mhz thing for my sisters and mother to use. it worked a lot better with windows Me. i even got the thing turned down to minimal settings.

Yay for opera...


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Been using Opera since the dawn of man and it is still the best out there. IE is pain in the ass, Firefox too hyped.

Yep IE is bad. IE7 is worse than IE6. The only good thing about it is the tabs, but everything else is retarded.

Its got the main menu below the address bar, doesn't have a history button, the home button is one place and the refresh button is way somewhere else.

I've been using Opera since version 5. Although I cannot claim it perfect, IMO it is far and away the best browser there is. Here follow many facts to back up that statement.
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10 Features You'll Find Only In Opera

Everyone says that Opera is an innovative browser, but most fail to say why. So I created a list of ten features that are really helpful in your everyday browsing and are available in Opera. Some of them are available in Firefox, if you download extensions, or in other browsers, so you may say they're not unique to Opera, but Opera used them first and they are a part of Opera's innovation.

Here's the list:

1. Duplicate this tab
You visit a page and you want to read it later. For the moment, you want to go back to the previous one. What do you do? Copy the address of the page, create a new tab and paste the URL in the address bar. In Opera you just click Duplicate. The new tab will also duplicate the history.

2. Go to URL
You see a web address in a page, but it's not not hyperlinked. How do you visit the web page? You copy it and paste it in address bar, then press enter. In Opera, select the address, right-click and select "Go to URL".

3. Reload every 30 seconds
You go to a site that shows the live score of a baseball match and it doesn't reload periodically. So you'll have to press F5 every 30 seconds to see the score. In Opera, select "reload every 30 seconds".

4. Fit to window width
Nobody likes the horizontal scrollbar in a page, but some webmasters don't bother to view their sites at different resolutions. In Opera, select "fit to window width" to remove the horizontal scrollbar and shrink the content.

5. Rewind
You search for something at Google, discover a great site, you visit 20 pages from that site and then you want to go back to the search results. You can click Back 20 times or try to locate Google in the list next to the back button. Or you can just hit "Rewind" if you use Opera.

6. Nicknames for collections of sites
How do you visit you favorite sites? You bookmark them and then try to locate the sites in the Bookmars menu. Or you enter the first letters of the URL in the address bar. In Opera you can associate nicknames to sites or collection of sites. Picture this: type "news" and see your favourite news sites opening in their tabs.

7. Tab closing
You visit site A, open a link to site B in a new tab, but the tabs A and B aren't next to each other. If you close tab B, Firefox won't revert to the tab A. You'll see site C in a tab at the left of tab B. Opera shows the previous active tab.

8. Instant back
When you click Back, the browser tries to refetch the page. Opera shows the page from the cache, so the "Back" action happens instantly.

9. Page zoom
Some sites have almost unreadable font sizes, others have huge pictures. Opera zoom feature maintains the site integrity and allows you to view the site without losing the visual presentation.

10. Crash recovery
Your browser crashes and you want to go back to the sites you were visting before the crash. In Firefox, you have to go History and open them one by one. Opera automatically saves last session so you'll see the tabs in the same order when you open the browser.

And that's not all:

11. if you want pages to load faster, you can load only cached images
12. you can control the browser with voice commands
13. use mouse gestures (you can go back this way: hold right button and move mouse left or hold right button and click left button)
14. create beautiful presentations without using Microsoft PowerPoint (even online)
15. change keyboard shortcuts

All the features above are available in Opera 8. The new version of Opera (Opera 9 Beta) has even more: BitTorrent integration, widgets, thumbnail preview for tabs and page customization (that's right - you can save settings just for a page).

Firefox will load slow if your running a bunch of addon extensions.

safari

Yay for FireFox...

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