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Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux
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.
I was using Lynx!
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.
You said "four GOOD browsers".
(Slow down, cowboy! It's been twelve hours since you last posted a comment.)
The four GOOD browsers:
Links, Lynx, wget, curl.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
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.
lynx is bloated. ;)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Both Firefox and Opera?
Ignore this signature. By order.