Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Opera 6.03 - The Wild Child of Browsers?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the home-of-the-singing-fat-lady dept.

IEEE1394 writes: "Ever wondered what other Internet browsers are available outside of Internet Explorer? Opera 6.03 from Opera Software boasts itself on being 'the fastest browser on earth.' Does it really live up to its claim of being unique and being fast? Is it the wild child of the browser family and can it ever surpass Internet Explorer as the browser of choice? Let's find out." Funny, IE isn't my browser of choice ...

8 of 579 comments (clear)

  1. Lynx by 00_NOP · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will be faster. GIFs are for whimps.

    1. Re:Lynx by vr · · Score: 2, Funny

      well.. you can turn off images in Opera. you think that will help? :)

    2. Re:Lynx by cyborch · · Score: 3, Funny

      NY Times random login generator there should be more of these, we need to make our lives easier, there is no need whatsoever for nytimes to require my userinformation to display free articles. If they want to display their articles freely why have these login requirements at all?

  2. "Wild child" a compliment?? by Creosote · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, Kiniski, but when I hear "wild child" I think Truffaut (as in his film "l'Enfant sauvage"). So if Opera is the wild child of browsers, it would be incapable of parsing or rendering HTML, would periodically generate frenzied outbursts of sound and signals, and would occasionally defecate on the desktop.But with years of patient training, it might become a functional browser.

  3. Re:Sandscript? by Fiver-rah · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sandscript: the language *so* dead that nobody, except possibly the reviewer, has heard of it.

    --
    Read Bujold. Free (as in
  4. Whatta Maroon by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 3, Funny

    One of the biggest areas where Opera seems to fail is with a lot of newly developed websites that didn't take Opera into consideration since IE seems to continue to dominate the browser market with authority.

    Oh, obviously it's the browser's fault when it fails to render broken pages correctly. Sheesh!
  5. Re:Sandscript? by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Is the reviewer referring to sanskrit here or is there actually a dead language called sandscript? "

    It's the primary written language of Jawas. Unfortunately, it all but disappeared after the Empire instituted the death penalty for anybody that didn't speak 20th century Earth English.

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  6. Re:Lynx users try links by stevey · · Score: 2, Funny

    I use links in preference to W3m and Lynx nowadays - but I really wish it had a different name:

    "So you're using Links then?"

    "Yeah - I've been using lynx for years.."

    "No not Lynxs - Links..."