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Which is Better, Firefox or Opera?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fat-lady-slender-fox dept.

Roblimo writes "Firefox and Opera are the two most popular cross-platform Web browsers. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Kris Shaffer tested them side-by-side on SUSE Linux 9.1, Mac OS X Panther, and Windows 2000, and decided that your choice may depend more on what you *do* with your browser than anything else, unless (as is the case for many of us) Opera is off the table from the start because it's not open source."

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  1. Which is dumber... by Shamanin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    this article, this posting, or the comments regarding them

    it's hard to choose

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    come on fhqwhgads
  2. Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, not really.
    A piece of software being open source adds value to a software in and off itself. You simply can do things with this piece of software you can't do with closed source software.

    Additinally, your attempt at a comparison was pretty stupid, as this is a discussion of opera(closed source) or firefox(open source). So there clearly exists a choice, whereas you try to make it sound like either use Opera, or don't browse the web at all (oh the quite on /.).

  3. Re:Have you guys heard about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Meh. When a mod votes a post Offtopic, all they're really doing is saying, "I hate homosexuals"

  4. Re:Uhh... what? by grantm · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    A Spellcheck would be nice too.

    Yeah if only those extensions weren't so damn hard to find