This guy loves opera. He mises delicious integration as I do.
I am a Firefox fan. I’ve been using Firefox since it was named “Firebird” and calling it “stable” was a big overstatement. Firefox dragged me out of Internet Explorer, and that was definitely one of its biggest achievements.
Because I’m addicted to trying out new tools, however, I always kept testing new browsers I discovered here and there. K-Meleon, Flock, Sleipnir… When Safari came out for Windows I immediately installed it and used it for about 2 hours, only to realize that it wasn’t – and it still isn’t – usable at all, mainly due to sporadic crashes.
Similarly, I’ve been trying out Opera periodically, as new releases came out, but again it didn’t seem to work for me. The biggest complaint I had was its inability to render heavily-ajaxified web sites properly. However, now it seems that the Opera Development Team made a big effort to improve the browser, and I was pleased to notice that Opera 9.5b (“Kestrel”) doesn’t seem to have this sort of problems at all.
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Happy new year to all you bunch too! :-*
icekin: Opera uses available memory, but does so much more efficiently. I've tested this using a google images stress test: open 3 tabs with 3 different google image searches, navigate through 10 pages on each (30 pages = 600 images!), now try to fast navigate backwards. Opera keeps all 30 pages prerendered in less memory than FF, and FF fails to fast-navigate back after the third page. So Opera is using its memory cache more efficiently than FF as far as I can tell, irrespective of overall numbers.
For those interested, this is what I have in my urlfilter.ini exclude list, blocks most of the annoying stuff for me and the small list keeps page loading fast (Firefox or Opera slows down considerably with large blocklists):
http://*.2mdn.net/*
http://*.adbrite.com/*
http://*.bidvertiser.com/*
http://*.mediaplex.com/*
http://*.rmxads.com/iframe*
http://*.streamray.com/bestclicked/*
http://*adsrevenue.net*
http://*inklineglobal.com/ad*
http://*intellitxt.com/intellitxt*
http://*realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/*
http://ad.doubleclick.net*
http://ad.yieldmanager.com/*
http://ads.doubleclick.net/*
http://banner.nonstoppartner.de/*
http://cdn.euroclick.com/contents/*
http://cdn.eyewonder.com/*
http://cdn.fastclick.net/fastclick.net/*
http://cdn2.precisionclick.com/*
http://cdn5.tribalfusion.com/media/*
http://clicktorrent.info/phpAdsNew/*
http://content.yieldmanager.edgesuite.net/*
http://crtv.mate1.com/crtv/*
http://ctxt.tribalfusion.com/ctxt*
http://*.nytimes.com/ads/*
http://i.cmpnet.com/ads/*
http://kona.kontera.com/*
http://layer-ads.de/*
http://m.tangozebra.com/*
http://media.baventures.com/ispy/*
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/*
http://pages.etology.com/gtbimg/*
http://spe.atdmt.com/*
http://speed.pointroll.com/PointRoll/*
http://www.google-analytics.com/__*
http://www.popinads.com/*