Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Nik
I tried Opera. It sucks. I went back to FF after 2 weeks.
it is true that stupid people, an impatient people, often have a bit of trouble setting up Opera for maximum performace.
Originally posted by: GamerExpress
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: archcommus
Yes, but also no better than IE, either.Originally posted by: Kaervak
Originally posted by: archcommus
I don't see how you say the mem usage is better, Anubis said himself 8.5 can get huge. IE never uses more than 30 megs for me.Originally posted by: Kaervak
Originally posted by: arod
has anybody found a good easy way to block inpage ads? I loved firefox's adblock extension but havent seen anything similar for opera yet.
Tried anything mentioned here: http://nontroppo.org/wiki/BlockAdvertisements ?
I use both Opera & Firefox and Opera, IMO just does it better. Built in e-mail client, highly customizeable UI, small memory & disk space foot print & installs everything into ONE directory. Firefox is a great browser too, and the extensions are something Opera should have.
I have eleven tabs open, not including the mail tab, and memory usage is at 36MB right now. Doesn't seem like a hog to me.
I tried it, and I certainly didn't dislike it, I just saw no compelling reason to switch from IE. *shrug* Anyone wanna change my mind?
The only thing that's even remotely interesting to me is the integration of mail, but it'd have to be pretty damn good to take me away from Outlook.
Outlook is far more powerful and just as secure (if you're not an idiot) than Thunderbird.
Sure Outlook is more powerful then Thunderbird, but Outlook costs a ton of money and Thunderbird is free. I think what you were trying to say was Outlook Express maybe??
If you were were trying to say Outlook Express, then you are wrong Thinderbird is a much better app right now, OE is just outdated!!!
Originally posted by: archcommus
It has no feature for keeping select cookies but removing the rest, and Window Washer doesn't support it. Hmm...
I was talking about Opera. IE doesn't really do what I need by itself. You can always allow or always block specific sites, but that's it. You'll still acquire cookies during normal use, unless you want to be asked every time a site wants one, which would get a tad annoying. With Window Washer, whenever I do a cleaning, it gets rid of every cookie except for the ones I choose.Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: archcommus
It has no feature for keeping select cookies but removing the rest, and Window Washer doesn't support it. Hmm...
What, Opera or FireFox? You must be talking about Opera because FireFox has that selective-cookie feature. So does IE.
Originally posted by: Flashram
You need to play around with Opera before you dismiss it. On the surface it doesn't look like anything special, but once you customize it and learn some of the unique features it is great. If you still prefer FF or IE, well, that's your problem.![]()
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Flashram
You need to play around with Opera before you dismiss it. On the surface it doesn't look like anything special, but once you customize it and learn some of the unique features it is great. If you still prefer FF or IE, well, that's your problem.![]()
What "special features" does Opera have that FF doesn't? What can you get with Opera that you can't get with FF or it's extensions?
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Flashram
You need to play around with Opera before you dismiss it. On the surface it doesn't look like anything special, but once you customize it and learn some of the unique features it is great. If you still prefer FF or IE, well, that's your problem.![]()
What "special features" does Opera have that FF doesn't? What can you get with Opera that you can't get with FF or it's extensions?
well, that's a good point - with Opera, you don't need a zillion 'extensions'..
I remember you were the guy with the weight/ bloat problem, not surprising you prefer firefox.
Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
I'm giving Opera a fair try here. I'm tired of Firefox using up almost half of my CPU as soon as it's even opened like one of the early posters in this thread stated. I'm also tired of the crashes (I get them at least twice a week). Even though I love Firefox, it's forced me back to using Mozilla the last few weeks which takes up hardly any of my CPU usage at all.
Question though - I can't get Gmail to come up in Opera. The page stays at 'Loading' in the upper left. What gives?
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Opera stinks on secure websites. Doesn't work with either of my banks or my company's intranet.
Nik, it's not my computer. When this first started happening (it was somewhere between FF versions .7 and .8), I too thought something must be wrong with my comp because the previous version of FF never took up this much of my CPU.Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
I'm giving Opera a fair try here. I'm tired of Firefox using up almost half of my CPU as soon as it's even opened like one of the early posters in this thread stated. I'm also tired of the crashes (I get them at least twice a week). Even though I love Firefox, it's forced me back to using Mozilla the last few weeks which takes up hardly any of my CPU usage at all.
Question though - I can't get Gmail to come up in Opera. The page stays at 'Loading' in the upper left. What gives?
Methinks it's time to run some diagnostic tools on your computer
With three tabs running in FireFox, several Poker tools running, got a table going at Absolute Poker, outlook open, excel open, Trillian open running (+2 chat windows), downloading a file with FF, AVG in the task bar, TeaTimer in the task bar, MS's anti-spyware beta in the task bar, among others, I'm still at less than 2% CPU usage.![]()
Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
Question though - I can't get Gmail to come up in Opera. The page stays at 'Loading' in the upper left. What gives?
That doesn't work either. Identifying as Opera, Mozilla, or IE doesn't let my Gmail come up. Hmm.Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
Question though - I can't get Gmail to come up in Opera. The page stays at 'Loading' in the upper left. What gives?
Google uses different code for different browsers.
Tools --> Quick Preferences --> Identify As Opera
Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
Nik, it's not my computer. When this first started happening (it was somewhere between FF versions .7 and .8), I too thought something must be wrong with my comp because the previous version of FF never took up this much of my CPU.Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
I'm giving Opera a fair try here. I'm tired of Firefox using up almost half of my CPU as soon as it's even opened like one of the early posters in this thread stated. I'm also tired of the crashes (I get them at least twice a week). Even though I love Firefox, it's forced me back to using Mozilla the last few weeks which takes up hardly any of my CPU usage at all.
Question though - I can't get Gmail to come up in Opera. The page stays at 'Loading' in the upper left. What gives?
Methinks it's time to run some diagnostic tools on your computer
With three tabs running in FireFox, several Poker tools running, got a table going at Absolute Poker, outlook open, excel open, Trillian open running (+2 chat windows), downloading a file with FF, AVG in the task bar, TeaTimer in the task bar, MS's anti-spyware beta in the task bar, among others, I'm still at less than 2% CPU usage.![]()
I tried everything short of reinstalling Windows and then installing FF. I did everything suggested on the FF forums and other suggestions found online about this problem but to no avail. BTW, the CPU-hogging isn't affected running FF with zero extensions or running 15 extensions. It still hogs it up. From what I've gathered, there's not many people that are having the kind of problem I'm having with FF and 95% of FF users say, like you, that FF uses minimal CPU on their machines. Not so with mine.
But I've just finally had enough. I do wish I could find some kind of fix for this problem because I love Firefox's functionability but until I do I'm sticking with Mozilla, IE, and now Opera.
Originally posted by: interwebgeek
Installed that free opera for about a day, some sites loaded all wrong. The interface annoyed me beyond belief. I actually use both IE and FF but not going to play with opera again, it feels like using a mac, dumbed down?