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Do you have any explanation for this? Thanks.
by lelele 16y ago
Do you have any explanation for this? Thanks.
- raquo 16y agoThere are several components: 1. Opera works incredibly faster than Firefox on low-memory machines. I mean faster in application tasks (launch/switch tabs/go back/etc.), not executing JS. 2. Opera is easy for normal people – it has a ton of features like built in mail reader, etc. but they don't get in your way, it is easy to ignore them if you don't need them. Also, you can't accidentally download a ton of useless Opera toolbars. 3. Opera is free, independent, standards-compliant, secure, etc. - a lot of things that we geeks love. 4. A lot of normal people ask some geek they know to set up their new computer - and we remove the bloat that comes with it and install the basic apps (often including Opera, Avast, ImgBurn, 7zip, etc.). Surprisingly I often hear these normal people saying they actually like Opera way more than IE. I thought they would not care.
- GHFigs 16y agoOpera works incredibly faster than Firefox on low-memory machines. I strongly second this. I recently tried Opera for the first time in ages on an old ThinkPad ca. 2001 and it's astonishing what it can do with as little as 128MB of RAM and a Pentium 3. Where Firefox and Chrome struggle with even one tab and no extensions, I routinely find myself with a dozen or more open in Opera without it becoming even slightly sluggish. Whatever its faults, I'm extremely impressed.
- lelele 16y ago> Opera works incredibly faster than Firefox on low-memory machines. Just tried it. Indeed it does! So sad it allows for very little customization and has different shortcuts than other browsers, otherwise I would have jumped on it right away. Hopefully, the next version will fix this.