Poll: Is Opera 7 much faster than other browsers?

[AG73]

Title says it all. I've been using opera for years and have liked the fact that it is a smaller file and is usually slightly faster then IE.

But Opera 7 seems like it's much, much faster than IE or Mozilla, even by Opera's standards. Can anyone share their experiences?

 

[JellyBaby]

O7 is much faster than IE and once it's out of beta it will be my primary browser. IE will be delegated for Windows Update and online banking.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: AG73
Title says it all. I've been using opera for years and have liked the fact that it is a smaller file and is usually slightly faster then IE.

But Opera 7 seems like it's much, much faster than IE or Mozilla, even by Opera's standards. Can anyone share their experiences?

how about "I want to see the results"?

 

[m0ti]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: AG73
Title says it all. I've been using opera for years and have liked the fact that it is a smaller file and is usually slightly faster then IE.

But Opera 7 seems like it's much, much faster than IE or Mozilla, even by Opera's standards. Can anyone share their experiences?

how about "I want to see the results"?

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: JellyBaby
O7 is much faster than IE and once it's out of beta it will be my primary browser. IE will be delegated for Windows Update and online banking.

I only use IE for WinUpdates and the occaisional page that is designed for IE and looks crappy with Opera. Opera works fine for the two banks that I do online banking with and I'm more confident about Operas' security than I am with IEs'.

 

[aswedc]

Depends on the situation - I have both a Pentium 100Mhz with 192MB of RAM and a Celeron 400 with 32MB of RAM (Don't ask how I ended up with those configurations ) On the Pentium, Opera 7 is slower than both Mozilla and IE, however on the RAM limited Celeron Opera is faster than everything else.

 

[sean2002]

Opera is nice but Mozilla can be made to be faster with a few tweaks, like the Max http connections and max connections per server settings, pipelinning, and the old ng_paint blah blah tweak

 

[AG73]

how about "I want to see the results"?

I think the only way to see the results is to vote. Is there a way to just show the results without voting? I can't figure a way.

And re: Mozilla, I think it's OK, but it boots too slow (and I dont' want to speed up the boot time by keeping it permanently in the system memory). But I'm willing to give it another try. I'll try the tweaks you mentioned.

 

[RockyMaivia]

I almost exclusively use Opera 6.05.

I tried Opera 7 beta for a little while, but it wasn't very stable (on Win2K server).

 

[NOX]

Originally posted by: RalfHutter

Originally posted by: JellyBaby
O7 is much faster than IE and once it's out of beta it will be my primary browser. IE will be delegated for Windows Update and online banking.

I only use IE for WinUpdates and the occaisional page that is designed for IE and looks crappy with Opera. Opera works fine for the two banks that I do online banking with and I'm more confident about Operas' security than I am with IEs'.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: AG73

how about "I want to see the results"?

I think the only way to see the results is to vote. Is there a way to just show the results without voting? I can't figure a way.

And re: Mozilla, I think it's OK, but it boots too slow (and I dont' want to speed up the boot time by keeping it permanently in the system memory). But I'm willing to give it another try. I'll try the tweaks you mentioned.

you have to add a poll option that says " I want to see the results". then those of us who want to see which feels fastest can vote for that and go try out the winner

 

[Homer]

BTW, an interesting (read: much more depth than usual) little review of Opera 7 up at ExtremeTech today.

 

[Nothinman]

Part of the reason I use Mozilla is to stop ads and since Opera displays them unless you pay for it, it's pointless. And frankly there's no reason to pay for Opera with Mozilla, Phoenix and even IE out there for free.