Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:34:47 -0000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Mark Hendriks" <markh@lon.imag.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Another Browser, Was: IE for FreeBSD Message-ID: <047201bef981$32523ba0$827e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <199909062314.QAA18815@superman.imag.net>
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I've used Opera a few times as it seems to work OK when the others don't at times like Friday evenings when the net has ground to a halt here .... but it seems to me its main advantage is simply that its marginally faster than MSIE / Netscape ...... but neither good on features or extremely simple ...... obviously there's substantial support for it so it must fill the bill for many people. I looked at the site for info on unix version but looks like thats a long way away, so its not an issue thats worth getting concerned with at this point anyway. Now if this was a linux list, the issue wouldn't even be mentioned .... but it IS a commercial application whereas the others are free .... and I thought I heard someplace that even the source for Netscape was available > At 06:59 PM 9/7/99 -0000, you wrote: > >Opera still looks quite amateurish ...... and if you have heaps of windows > >open there is no easy way of telling whats going on in each ..... at least > >the (admittedly bloated) MSIE & Netscape tell you clearly whats running > > Actually, opening a new window with every link is an option in Opera. Don't > know why they made this the default, or why anyone would want to have this > "feature" on in the first place, but you can turn it off, so that Opera works > more like NS or MIE in this respect. > > >I'm looking around for an alternative also ..... I like the simplicity of > >HotJava but its a worse resource hog than either MSIE or Netscape. My > >Solaris machine has a 400 Celeron & 96Mb RAM so its OK there, but don't know > >if it would be much use in a 386 for example. > > Interesting that you described Opera as "amateurish" but you "like the > simplicity of HotJava." Opera may not be as feature laden as NS or MIE, but, > to quote a beer commercial here in Ontario, "those who like it, like it a > lot." > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > bogh tlhInganpu', SuvwI'pu' moj, Hegh > - "Klingons are born, live as warriors, then die." > source: The Klingon Way, Mark Okrand, 1996 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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