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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. Have you guys heard about by ellem · · Score: 5, Funny

    Internet Explorer? It rules! You know if you want to do banking and stuff. ;)

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    1. Re:Have you guys heard about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      IE can visit some sites that require ActiveX, and Firefox / Opera can render properly sites that require better CSS2 support.

      True, but I expect that IE has some advantage too.

    2. Re:Have you guys heard about by nametaken · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hahaha...

      Yeah, this whole article is a "Gentlemen, start your flamethrowers!"

    3. Re:Have you guys heard about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Can't...stop...knee...from...jerking!

    4. Re:Have you guys heard about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      There was a private port of IE to the GameBoy Advance... if *THAT* isnt cross-platform, well then, i dont know what the hell is.

    5. Re:Have you guys heard about by danknight · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hmm, now where did I put that DE-css program...

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    6. Re:Have you guys heard about by DenmaFat · · Score: 3, Funny

      I guess that makes it "platform-free."

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  2. Better Question by AKAImBatman · · Score: 1, Funny

    Did the Opera CEO have to go for a swim?

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  3. This just in this just in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    *old fashioned news ticker noise in the background*

    This just in, this just in, in determining on which product in a category is best it depends on what the person/user does with said product...this just in, this just in....

    ;-)

    1. Re:This just in this just in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      This just in, Microsoft Office responds to notion user decides what he does with said product. And the response is "One size fits all, sucka!".

  4. Silly by 787style · · Score: 5, Funny

    unless (as is the case for many of us) Opera is off the table from the start because it's not open source

    People who refuse to use a useful piece of software simply because it isn't open source make about as much sense as an Ethiopian refusing food because it isn't Kosher. It fits your needs, use it.

  5. Re:Why doesn't Microsoft buy Opera? by QQoicu2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They've already got a cross-platform closed-source browser - IE for the Mac.

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  6. Re:I know! by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bzzzzt. Sorry, it's vi.

    No, wait, python - no, qmail ... debian ... turbo (bio)diesel ... Firefly!

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  7. Re:Uhh... what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Your post was too long for my attention span, so I didn't read past the first paragraph.

  8. Fire-what? by krough · · Score: 5, Funny

    My company makes me use IE, you insensitve clod.

  9. Re:I would say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    someone who deters from philiosophical choice because of conveinance is nothing but an oportunist who would sell there own mother if the deal was good enough.

    Why? How much are you offering for her?

  10. Re:I would say by Reene · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice logical fallacy you got there. Dazzle us with another one, Socrates.

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  11. No way: by blake3737 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Lynx(browser.org) schools them both. Especially in the way in which it views ads graphics!~

  12. Re:Get some balls, man by frodo+from+middle+ea · · Score: 3, Funny

    what are you talking about, vi won ages ago.
    :x!

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  13. Re:Uhh... what? by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only thing that bothers with with my opera 8 is that it segfaults about one or two times a day.

    You may wish to try out the 8.01 preview if you can... It's in prerelease stage, but already considered more stable than 8.00.

    Yeah, I hear 8.01 only segfaults five or six times a week!

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  14. Re:Uhh... what? by Unnamed+Chickenheart · · Score: 2, Funny

    "So I'm happy, the bible thumpers are happy, and if "

    The "bible thumpers" are not happy with you now... :p

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  15. Re:if Opera is out.. by An+Onerous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, so you think it's somehow moral and proper to let koalas slave away in diamond mines, so your girlfriend can have a pretty-shiny? Think of all the cute, furry little bellies being worn raw as they drag sacks of ore up from the depths of the Earth! And look at those tiny, grasping little hands. They were obviously designed to collect eucalyptus leaves, not wield a heavy pick or shovel!

    You, sir--and I use the term sarcastically--have no shame.

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