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opera 9 is out
piratePenguin:
--- Quote ---Firefox has many Netscape specific non-standard features that many websites have been designed to cater for so they don't render wel in Opera
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What "non-standard features"? XUL? I wish. FF supports web-standards well and then supports some IE-only stuff too. Opera does the same I'm sure, but they don't do it as good.
If you look through this you'll find there are parts of CSS supported by FF and not Opera and vica verca.
FF has very good support for W3C standards. It even has support for one or two (well I think one) things from XHTML 2.0 which is still a working draft (but almost undoubtedly will become a recommendation). (both Opera and FF support some things in CSS3 which is also a working draft, but I don't think Opera support anything from XHTML 2.0 yet)
_kill__bill:
I like extensions. I've got 29 running right now. It allows you to have the functionality you need without the functionality you don't.
Also, Opera was designed to pass the acid2 test, while Firefox just added support wherever they thought it needed. Really, they both support standards about equally well, but I've noticed Opera doesn't handle mixes of old & new standards too well. I'd add a link, but the only ones I can think off atm would get me banned :).
[OFFTOPIC]Question: If a link to questionable content is encrypted somehow (rot13 or 1337, like), would it be less a problem?
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Another reason:
#4: Themes. I have not seen the ability to use themes in Opera (or IE, for that matter). I like black japan, but it makes me paranoid.
[OFFTOPIC]I wish FF would let you change themes w/o restarting. I mean, trying out new themes is a pain in the :mad::eek::fu:, if you know what i mean.[/OFFTOPIC]
Overall, Opera is decent, but I prefer FF. Each to his own, though, as long as it isn't IE.
[OFFTOPIC]Sorry for drifting OT, my brain is asleep.[/OFFTOPIC]
ReggieMicheals:
--- Quote ---#4: Themes. I have not seen the ability to use themes in Opera (or IE, for that matter). I like black japan, but it makes me paranoid.
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Opera has themes. Just look under tools -> appearance and there you'll see a theme manager(called skins in Opera) that allows you to switch themes without restarting your browser. I have around 5 themes right now.
pofnlice:
I see naked people :8
and it doesn't matter whether it's on Opera or firefox...
Strange 6th sensory powers?
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: _kill__bill ---
Also, Opera was designed to pass the acid2 test, while Firefox just added support wherever they thought it needed.
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I don't really see what your point is, other than trivia.
It's not even right.
Opera wasn't designed to pass the acid2 test. It wasn't designed to pass the acid 1 test. Opera predates BOTH of those tests.
And people seem to forget that Safari/KHTML was the first to kick ass on the ACID2 test.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2
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