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Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-in-this-corner dept.

Joe Barr writes "Mayank Sharma has two recent stories on Linux.com; one evaluating the performance of Firefox 3, and the second comparing it to Opera 9.5. Which is better? For most people, it's probably more a matter of familiarity or personal preference, but these stories provide hard performance data to consider as well. Sharma notes, 'In terms of rendering JavaScript, Firefox 3 had the edge over Opera 9.5 in the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, which has an error range between +/-0.8% to +/-11.3% depending on the type of test. In the JavScript Engine speed test, Opera 9.5 scores over its peers when it comes to error handling, DOM, and AJAX.'" Slashdot shares a corporate overlord with Linux.com.

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  1. First post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was using Lynx!

    1. Re:First post... by tristian_was_here · · Score: 4, Funny

      I prefer to waste my time using vi well trying to...

  2. Re:Choice is a Good Thing by ricegf · · Score: 5, Funny

    The fourth is an underpowered and little used browser called Internet Explorer. I'm not really surprised you haven't heard of it; it's rarely used on Linux at all, for good reasons.

  3. Re:Choice is a Good Thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You said "four GOOD browsers".

    (Slow down, cowboy! It's been twelve hours since you last posted a comment.)

  4. Re:Choice is a Good Thing by zippthorne · · Score: 5, Funny

    The four GOOD browsers:

    Links, Lynx, wget, curl.

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  5. Re:awesome bar = f u bar by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who thinks of this picture every time I hear "Awesome Bar"? It just seems like one of those things that was a placeholder name that never got changed.

    Dev 1: Man, what should we call the new multifunction search-address bar?
    Dev 2: I dunno, I've been calling it the "awesome bar" in the code.
    Dev 1: Damn that's stupid.
    Dev 2: Yeah I know, but I can't think of anything better.
    Dev 1: Me either, just leave it for now.

    And then, over time, everyone just got used to calling it that, and it ended up released that way.

  6. Re:Choice is a Good Thing by amdpox · · Score: 4, Funny

    lynx is bloated. ;)

  7. Re:Opera is awesome! by dotancohen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who uses the new tab button? Who uses more than 640k of memory?
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  8. Re:Choice is a Good Thing by mcrbids · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot the best one of all: telnet.

    It's one thing to have it all INTERPRETED for you. It's another thing to see things in native code.

    There's way too much information to decode the Internet. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.

    Wait till you actually view your Porn Flash video as an ASCII-presented binary!

    GET /midgetswithwidgets.flv HTTP/1.0\n\n

    Baby! You aren't a natural red-head, are you?

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  9. Re:Opera is awesome! by cp.tar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who uses the new tab button? Who uses more than 640k of memory?

    Both Firefox and Opera?

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  10. Re:Opera is awesome! by joto · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's called humor. See this and this for an explanation.