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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: raptor on 29 January 2003, 21:55

Title: opera to suffer because of safari? huh.
Post by: raptor on 29 January 2003, 21:55: quote:
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982314.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed (http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982314.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed)

opera is a good browser.

[ January 29, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]
Title: opera to suffer because of safari? huh.
Post by: psyjax on 29 January 2003, 12:25: Opera sux ass.

Why use it when there is Chimera?

And safari is gearing up to top chimera once it goes final.
Title: opera to suffer because of safari? huh.
Post by: hm_murdock on 29 January 2003, 19:44: opera would be fine if they didn't *TRY* to make it so different.

Also, charging for it is rather silly, when everybody else gives their browser away for free.

There's also something about a project that stays in "beta" and "previews" for so long with no real progress that kinda screams "SUCK"
Title: opera to suffer because of safari? huh.
Post by: psyjax on 29 January 2003, 19:47: quote:
Originally posted by Jimmy James: Mac Commando:
There's also something about a project that stays in "beta" and "previews" for so long with no real progress that kinda screams "SUCK"

Chimera dosn't suck
Title: opera to suffer because of safari? huh.
Post by: Calum on 29 January 2003, 20:38: opera doesn't suck. however they really are dicing with dinosaurs by keeping their closed source browser non-free. who are they kidding? nobody pays for browser software these days.

also, i think it's a bit of a cheek making a statement blaming somebody else for your own failure to keep developing software.

that said, the company might suck but the browser doesn't.

Also, re: beta versions. my favourite browser tends to be in beta most of the time and it is also the most stable browser i have yet to come across. yes it's good old mozilla and its derivatives (but mozilla proper is the most stable).
Title: opera to suffer because of safari? huh.
Post by: cocoamix on 29 January 2003, 20:48: Opera doesn't suck.
It just doesn't rock like Chimera and Safari. (http://smile.gif)
Title: opera to suffer because of safari? huh.
Post by: psyjax on 29 January 2003, 20:51: I dunno.

Chimera is only 0.6 and it has only crashed out maybe 2 times since I have started using it. I like it more than Moz simply because Chimera is lightweight, simple, and fast as flaming hog balls.

The only browser that I have seen beat it for speed is Safari which I have been using as my main browser for a while.

Even though Safari lacks many of Chimera's fetures, I keep being drawn back to it simply for it's lightning speed when it comes to rendering HTML and loading pages. I also like the way it handles downloads and bookmarks.

It is an excellent browser.
Title: opera to suffer because of safari? huh.
Post by: raptor on 30 January 2003, 05:10: i think that the new opera is beautiful, the skin is nice and hte gui is more-than tolerable.

I dont like the fact that you have to pay to obtain a legal version, one of the reasons gnu/ is cool.
Title: opera to suffer because of safari? huh.
Post by: Pantso on 31 January 2003, 02:28: All I can say is that I'm fed up with all those browsers out there. I don't use Opera in OS X, eventhough I use it in Linux. However I think that it's a very nice browser BUT if you already use Chimera and Safari in OS X you don't need anything else. (http://smile.gif)