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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 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.

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

      I guess that makes it "platform-free."

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  2. 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....

    ;-)

  3. 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.

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

    My company makes me use IE, you insensitve clod.

  6. 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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