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opera 9 is out
piratePenguin:
Aloone_Jonez would not be happy to learn that the Windows download is 4.6 MB.
That's fucking FOUR FLOPPY DISKS WTF??? :p
http://www.opera.com
I'm using it now - but until it's free it will never take Firefox's place on my machine.
The widgets are a feature I can't see myself wanting, but they look like crap on my system anyhow (they prob look better on windows):
http://piratepenguin.is-a-geek.com/~declan/crap/operawidgets.png
EDIT: selecting lines/paragraphs is going to be messy since double clicking text brings up that right-click menu :o
Well, I'm keeping it, just for testing.
Aloone_Jonez:
I've tried the beta and I liked it, I've been waiting for this of awhile, I'll download it when I get home.
Annorax:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---I'm using it now - but until it's free it will never take Firefox's place on my machine.
--- End quote ---
Opera is free, and has been since version 8.5.
They are still charging for Opera on non-mainstream platforms like Windows Mobile/PocketPC, cell phones, Nintendo DS*... but not Linux, FreeBSD, Mac, etc.
*not quite released yet, but date and price have been announced in Japan
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Annorax ---Opera is free, and has been since version 8.5.
They are still charging for Opera on non-mainstream platforms like Windows Mobile, cell phones, Nintendo DS*...
*not quite released yet, but date and price have been announced in Japan
--- End quote ---
Hehe... I meant free as in freedom ;)
I was gonna specify that, but I thought you'd know me by now ;)
I'm gonna do a bit of a memory usage comparison between FF and Opera now... Even though I don't believe NUMBERS to be all that important (using extra memory for cache is generally good)
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Hehe... I meant free as in freedom ;)
I was gonna specify that, but I thought you'd know me by now ;)
I'm gonna do a bit of a memory usage comparison between FF and Opera now... Even though I don't believe NUMBERS to be all that important (using extra memory for cache is generally good)
--- End quote ---
Er, jaysus.
I set them to the same homepage, started them. FF started faster, perhaps because Opera had to load the Qt libraries when GTK was already loaded for FF.
Opera was using something like 35 Mib virtual memory and FF was using just over 70 (I was shocked). so I opened 4 tabs - same pages in each browser and FF was using /less/ memory than Opera at this stage:
http://piratepenguin.is-a-geek.com/~declan/crap/operaVff/omgFFwins.png
And then.... I was just looking at the system monitor for about a minute and Opera's RAM usage went down, and then it went down again... WTF?
It dropped from 122 to 82 :scared:
So er - probably Opera is better with the numbers, just like I expected.
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