Comments | moshez: Opera -- chief problem

moshez

Opera -- chief problem

Oct 08, 2007 05:05

So I read this, which is interesting if pie-in-the-sky (the first step to writing a new rendering engine is more or less implementing Graham's 100 year language now). The chief part I had an issue with was "you can't get that market share without being Web-compatible. (I suspect this is almost the entire reason why Opera hasn't been a runaway ( Read more... )

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tedesson October 8 2007, 03:48:00 UTC

The Nokia 770 comes with Opera. Other than that I'd never use it. Firefox is good enough, and when it isn't, Konqueror is.

tremir October 8 2007, 08:17:51 UTC

Last I checked, which was, admittedly, several years ago, I dropped Opera and went back to Explorer.
It's a wonderful browser, but it is (or was, anyway) far too resource intensive.

I have no idea if this is still the case, but when I last used it, opening 10 tabs at the same time would kill my computer, while 10 explorer windows wouldn't.