Difference between Opera and Firebird?

Iron Woode

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Originally posted by: Anubis
opera is faster and skinable
Nope.

Mozilla/Firebird is faster at page rendering than Opera.

Mozilla and firebird are skinable too.
 

MaluMan

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i've used both firebird and opera on 56k, and honestly to me it seems opera is faster, but when i used em wit cable modem i couldnt really tell the difference in speed

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Anubis

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ive use them both on cable and and 10base lan and opera is faster alot faster. and it doesnt look like crap

mozilla/firebird looks WAY too bland. its just to plain and square lookin. kind of hard to explain. but IE looks better maby thats fixed now i didnt know it was skinable

and opera has mouse jestures and they are built in

 

Shawn

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Originally posted by: Anubis
ive use them both on cable and and 10base lan and opera is faster alot faster. and it doesnt look like crap

mozilla/firebird looks WAY too bland. its just to plain and square lookin. kind of hard to explain. but IE looks better maby thats fixed now i didnt know it was skinable

and opera has mouse jestures and they are built in

http://texturizer.net/firebird/themes/
 

Iron Woode

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Originally posted by: Anubis
ive use them both on cable and and 10base lan and opera is faster alot faster. and it doesnt look like crap

mozilla/firebird looks WAY too bland. its just to plain and square lookin. kind of hard to explain. but IE looks better maby thats fixed now i didnt know it was skinable

and opera has mouse jestures and they are built in
I used both on my 100mbit lan with cable modem access. Mozilla/Firebird out performed Opera (7.20) by a wide margin. Not only that but Opera has serious formatting issues on many sites, including AnandTech.

IE looks like crap compared to Mozilla/Firebird.

Mouse gestures are built into Mozilla/firebird too.

I didn't mind Opera at first, but the formatting and other annoyances caused me to switch to a browser that was faster and didn't crash .