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Opera: Firefox User Figures 'Inflated'
Anonymous Coward writes "ZDNet
notes, 'The chief executive of Opera Software claimed on Monday that the market share figures for Mozilla Firefox are inflated, due to its support for link prefetching" In addition, "Opera has a better caching mechanism so it doesn't access Web sites as often as other browsers" and "Opera is configured by default to identify itself as Internet Explorer' "
That's something I've noticed about the Mozilla project: it seems to often take several years after a bug is submitted before anything is done about it, and not because it isn't serious nor because they don't know about it.
Arguing about vi versus Emacs is like arguing whether it's better to make fire by rubbing sticks or banging rocks.
It is true that the beautiful flower often does grow from stinky shit.
There are so many wonders, so many great things, that come of the small, the weak, the mundane and ugly, that to list them all here would be cliche.
However, IE will always be the paragon of suckage that it is now, for all eternity. It is an avatar of slopped together kludge, that strides the very earth itself, leaving gigantic footprints of utter stupidity in its wake. That no force can stop it, of this I cannot be certain. But it can never be redeemed. None of the damned in hell are condemned like it is.
Mozilla may wane and die, or perhaps opera. Multitudes of both good and bad browsers might take shape and live long lives. But IE will never, ever improve.
See, that's why it's good to have choice. My experiance with FF is that it does no more than IE, has the same issues with websites blocking it as Opera, is FUGLY and it's tabbed browsing is like stabbing my eye with a fork - repeatedly. And that assumes I can get the ***ker to even show any tabs at all.
Opera, Proxomitron-Grypen,GPG 0x0A1C6EE3
Bug 97806 fixes this, in accordance with this W3C Recommendation and the errata, in which I wrote:
In my opinion, Opera doesn't like these more recent W3C recommendations because of the degree of precision in them; if new browser vendors implement what's written in them, then there won't be any value in Opera's huge intellectual property investment in reverse-engineering Internet Explorer and implementing Microsoft bug-compatibility.
Opera ought to implement the W3C recommendations, instead of starting its own competing organization to preserve their Bambi-like spot in the hegemony.
Control-T is hard and doesn't always work? It would seem that your problems extend beyond Firefox itself.
Interesting. Let me try (mod me troll).
...oh, shit!
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
Mod me +1 Troll.. oh wait!
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Prof. Dumbledore