I'm sick of Opera

[Gooberlx2]

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Is it just me or does the latest version of Opera keep crashing for other people too? There's a bunch of other quirky things about the browser that have just started to piss me off as well.
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Anyway, I've switched to the latest build of Firebird and, with various extensions installled, it certainly seems to work well.

 

[Bglad]

No problems here. Love Opera.

 

[igowerf]

Firebird is good. I use the Mozilla browser with mouse gestures, Multizilla tabs, and some other plug-ins.

 

[injinuity]

Opera 7.0x is the best till date.. stay away from Opera 7.1x for now.... has a memory leak plus not too stable at all....

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: injinuity
Opera 7.0x is the best till date.. stay away from Opera 7.1x for now.... has a memory leak plus not too stable at all....

Yeah, I bet that's what was killing me. I was using 7.10.

After using firebird for the last two days I'm very impressed. I love middle clicks!

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Bglad
No problems here. Love Opera.

 

[larciel]

opera i run used upto 120MB of avail memory!!!

but all went down after setting up Memory usage in Pref...

altho opera has some annoying bugs... they're fixing it fast

 

[juiio]

The next stable version of Opera will be the first. Otherwise I'd be using it right now...

 

[ICEVaPa]

Absolutly LOVE IT!

 

[RalfHutter]

I'm using 7.10 here and it does use a lot of RAM on occaision. As a workaround you can minimize the browser window and it will give almost all the RAM back. If you keep Task Manager open while you minimize the browser you can watch rhis happen. People complain about this on the Opera Forums and Operas' response is that the memory is there to use, why complain that it's being used.

For me 7.10 is a little less stable than 6.06 but hopefully they'll fix this. I've been strongly considering checking out Mozilla or Phoenix/Firebird lately. It seems like Opera just doesn;t have the performance advanrage that it used to have and now it's not not as stable as it used to be either.

 

[spyordie007]

I like it for the most part, but I find that after using it for extended periods of time (say all day) it tends to get a little sluggish (and eat tons of RAM) and the only way that I've found that I can get it to speed back up again is to close Opera (and wait while it unloads both the current and casched RAM) and than reload it.

-Spy

 

[sirfergy]

Mozilla is the BOMB!