My Browser is better than yours!

[az]

If Firefox does all you want, then there is of course no reason to pay money for Opera. For compatibility tests I would just run the free version of Opera and ignore the ads, it isn't crippled in any way and doesn't spy on you.

AZ

[az]

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/WhyOpera

Even regular Opera users may find one or two things there they didn't know about. Very nice

AZ

[gt40]

Opera rules!!!
-or as my 10 year old calls it - Ohpra

[Jessterw]

Originally posted by az
If Firefox does all you want, then there is of course no reason to pay money for Opera. For compatibility tests I would just run the free version of Opera and ignore the ads, it isn't crippled in any way and doesn't spy on you.

AZ

I of course do run the free version on my Mac, I was just a little put off by the fact I couldn't use the same license code as the Windows version. I was still an Opera user when I last payed for it, so that has a lot to do with my comment.

[dshumake]

Originally posted by az
dpreview with spoofed user agent string:

[image removed]

Sasq, you can zoom images with FF? IF you can really do that, I'll install it.

AZ

I didn't spoof the user agent string to get the sidebar to show the lower levels and without this opera doesn't display correctly. Furthermore, on the home page of dpreview, opera 7.54 doesn't display the page correctly. The text boxes have text under box edges.

Although opera doesn't display the page as expected by the authors, I attribute it to poor html coding.

http://validator.w3.org/ indicates that there are 186 problems with http://www.dpreview.com/ .



But the html problem is valid as a reason for not using opera.


dshumake

[DGhost]

my browser is better than all of yours...

sadly, that is all I can say about it

[Chrono_Wanderer]

hehehe. another one of these

Firefox is my main browser right now... its loads so damn fast

[schmosef]

You guys all seem to use your browser for a lot more than me. All I want is a browser that is highly compatible and renders nicely. I don't need all the other frilly stuff like skins and macros and tabbed browsing. Maybe I'm just spoiled by my two triple head workstations, but if I want to browse more than one site I open another window, I don't need tabbed browsing--although it would have been a useful feature 10 years ago in my University days when I was Pr0n hunting. (it was harder to find good Pron back then! )

I think the point made earlier about each browser being better suited for a specific type of user is correct. I guess than my needs are just not that great.

I develop in ASP.Net and need to test compatibility with IE and FF. IE renders .Net pages better. That will improve over time. MS's IIS needs to spit out cleaner HTML and FF needs to become more forgiving of pages that are not 100% to spec.

I'm reading a book on CSS and there's lots of little details of the CSS spec that it claims IE doesn't support. I'll have to test the ones I care about to see if FF does support them.

Final thought...

As a point of contention among computer geeks, the browser issue is really ridiculously small time. In my day, it wasn't too uncommon to hear of fist fights breaking out between Mac and PC diehards. Those were real rivalries!

[schmosef]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
hehehe. another one of these

Firefox is my main browser right now... its loads so damn fast

Maybe it's just my rig, but for me, there's no appreciable speed difference in load times between IE and FF.

[GuchiGuh]

I don't really understand the whole "FIREFOX LOADED 0.24 MICROSECONDS FASTER THAN OPERA" hype or the other way around...

If you mean loading webpages, then I apologize, because I am currently sucking pizza through a strawer on my connection...

other than that, lets just end this all and say both browsers are better than IE...
*Group Hug!*

[DGhost]

Originally posted by GuchiGuh
I don't really understand the whole "FIREFOX LOADED 0.24 MICROSECONDS FASTER THAN OPERA" hype or the other way around...

If you mean loading webpages, then I apologize, because I am currently sucking pizza through a strawer on my connection...

other than that, lets just end this all and say both browsers are better than IE...
*Group Hug!*

maybe *your* copy of IE :P

[GuchiGuh]

reveal your secret(s)
Or else..........you don't want to know "what else"

[The PIT]

Sadly Firefox has a problem with Java plugins and you end up being constantly asked to install the plugin.
If you to about plugin it reckons the plugin is installed.
I know of three machines that got this problem at work. Haven't found a solution except use another browser.

[Sasq]

TP: tried this?

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#q2.2

[The PIT]

All of them bar this nsis. Clear as mud how to use that.