My Browser is better than yours!

[chaoliang]

1. FF is browser only, even IE. That's better than a program package like Opera.
2. I've testet the three browsers on various chinese sites. The fonts are almost always better presentet in IE than in FF. FF has a smaller font even for MURC site, which looks less nice.
3. I don't really like IE. I had great hopes on FF. But till now, IE is the only browser, with which I feel sure that I didn't miss anything.

[Mcollector]

Funny, I had the exact OPPOSITE experience of FF v. IE on the fonts.

Can someone tell me how big the annoying ad banner is on free Opera? I just read a user review that said it takes up 1/5th of the screen (it was on an opera.com link to download.com). Is that true?

[az]

Just try it, the download isn't very large and it can be removed without leaving any traces

That said, you have two choices: Regular banner size or google text banners which span the whole width of the screen, like a toolbar, but take up less height.

Oh, and v7.60 is a whole lot better than 7.54, especially for newcomers, unfortunately it isn't final yet.

AZ

[dbdg]

standard 468*60 size.

[Sasq]

Originally posted by az
Just try it, the download isn't very large and it can be removed without leaving any traces

That said, you have two choices: Regular banner size or google text banners which span the whole width of the screen, like a toolbar, but take up less height.

Oh, and v7.60 is a whole lot better than 7.54, especially for newcomers, unfortunately it isn't final yet.

AZ

FF doesn't insert anything to begin with, just delete the dir and its gone from your system

[az]

That's exactly the way it is in Opera, and has been for the past six years. (Exception: If you install for multiple users, it will create one additional directory per user where it stores its settings. You can find out about all this by typing aboutpera in the address bar, but the location is windows standard).

AZ

[az]

VJ

Set your Opera to ID either as IE or Moz and go to www.dpreview.com (strangely, this didn't work with 7.52, but it does with 7.54 - the little z-oder problem (menu behind flash) is sorted in 7.60)

Sometimes it works just writing the webmaster a nice post in their forum

AZ

[az]

Sasq: Yes, IIRC Opera doesn't create any registry entries (though of course uninstall information for windows' add/remove software and default browser settings have to be stored somewhere, I guess in the reg...).

AZ

[Jessterw]

Opera stores settings in the registry for install/uninstall and a relatively few additional items. So does Firefox for that matter. The amount of information stored in the registry is negligible at best (and some are created by Windows in response to actions taken in said browsers), and far better than what various other browsers throw in.

Can't say for sure on Opera for Windows, but both browsers place files in other directories on Mac and Firefox does so for profiles in Windows.

[az]

Opera for windows either places its settings in a subdirectory of its install directory, or, for multiple user installations, it places them in c:\documents and settings\application data\opera (or whatever its install dir is called)\*

BTW, you can tell Opera where to store its settings, and if this is on a FAT partition (or anything else all your OSes have read/write access), you can use the same directory and files for your preferences, cache, mail etc. across all your OSes.

AZ

[gorg]

I have to agree that life would be hard without Opera. As much as I have respect for Mozilla and Firefox they feel like Linux to Mac OS X. Not that the latter is perfect but it is miles ahead of Linux and Winblow$ for personal use.
But we can't have everything. Mac OS X system software at Linux prices along with an Opera version that matches Window$' one in terms of development support and resources. Mac version is still Carbon and does not inherit all the functionality of Cocoa applications.

[Mcollector]

This thread looks like a debate between the Calvinists and the Papists.

[az]

That's really the wrong analogy: This is more like the enlightened vs. uninformed heretics that steal the best ideas off the former and copy them poorly j/k

AZ

[Kurt]

I propose the test by water. If you float you're an heretic so you get killed. If you drown, you're not an heretic.

[az]

Opera is lighter than Firefox

AZ