Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:37:40 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> To: Brian Schieber <schieb@centurytel.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: why opera? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101061528540.36215-100000@earth.wnm.net> In-Reply-To: <3A578D7D.FCEA9E34@centurytel.net>
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Brian Schieber wrote: > Just installed Opera on my new FreeBSD setup. It's looks pretty cool > but why would I want to pay for it vs. free Netscape? Curious. > Frankly, you wouldn't. I've tried most versions since 1996 and still haven't found a reason to pay for it. Its advantages are as many as its drawbacks. While it's very flexible and configurable, and extremely fast with pages designed for IE compared to netscape (and compared to IE actually), it suffers from poor javascript handling, display bugs and sometimes simply fails to read pages. Its user interface is also unintuitive and quite often unresponsive. Standards compliant maybe, but probably too intolerant of breaking standards. I still get better results with lynx, at least I can do some decent troubleshooting with lynx. All that IMHO. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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