Comments on: What about Opera? You know, the web browser?

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:02:09 +0000

Kerry,
I am on cable as well and Opera loads the pages very quickly. Let me do some research on the Opera forums and see if I can come up with anything. I will bet there is a setting somewhere that needs to be tweaked.

One thing that comes to mind is an anti-virus program. I would assume you run one? Sometimes they interfere with Opera’s operation. Most of them can be set to exclude Opera and it’s files while scanning.

By: onemom

onemom — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:15:31 +0000

Yes, the pages were very slow (and I’m on cable). With Opera and Safari, it wasn’t any better than being on dial-up. I liked Opera’s appearance and tools, but so far I haven’t found a browser that lets the pages of websites load as quickly as firefox does.

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:11:33 +0000

Kerry,
Sorry it’s taken me all day to get back to you. Yes, I knew I was getting close to 30,000. I didn’t dream I would ever have that many hits on my blog.

As for Opera running slow, you are talking about the pages loading, right? How did the program itself run, such as the menus and things like that?

By: Round ‘em up « One Mom

Round ‘em up « One Mom — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:41:39 +0000

[...] Larry over at My Take, has an interesting look at an alternate web browser, Opera [...]

By: onemom

onemom — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:28:12 +0000

Hey Larry – you hit 30,000!!

By: onemom

onemom — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:27:39 +0000

Larry, actually my problem with Opera (as with Safari) is that they ran incredibly slow. I was always waiting for pages to load. With Firefox, I don’t have that problem. I’m not sure why. It seems strange that one browser would work so quickly, while two others would take forever. I do think I will put Opera on my husband’s Dell though … he does not like “change” on his computer though, it will take some “learning time” for him to adjust (he’s still using Explorer … it is time for him to move on and move up).

By: Dominique

Dominique — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:13:40 +0000

Why does all this stuff give me a headache. Can’t you just upload one and they all do the same? LOL

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:56:07 +0000

Kerry,
Opera has a lot of functionality, but there are some things that Firefox does that Opera doesn’t. Most of this, I would venture to say, is because of the extensions that are available for Firefox. There is a gentleman who works for Opera Software that has compiled a list of the top 150 Firefox extensions and compared them to the functionality of Opera. Admittedly, Opera can not do everything the Firefox extensions do, but it can do most of it. Visit the link below and you may be surprised at what Opera is capable of. If you have any questions, just post a comment and I can try to help you out.

http://files.myopera.com/Rijk/blog/extensions.html

By: onemom

onemom — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:11:18 +0000

I’m on Mac computers (iMac and iBook), and I tried Opera, but I found the functionality with Firefox was so much better (Safari came as the default on my Macs … YUCK!). Maybe I’ll give Opera another try (or I’ll put it on my husband’s Dell!).

By: Wandering electrons

Wandering electrons — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:53:32 +0000

I’m convinced!
Well of course, I already was
But seriously folks, for those reading Larry’s excellent post here on the Opera browser, if you haven’t tried it yet, you don’t know what your missing. Opera is far and away my favorite, and default browser. Like Larry, I too say that there is nothing innately wrong with Firefox or even Internet Explorer, but indeed this other great choice which is Opera shouldn’t be missed. Give it a try; it’s free! It’ll be a bit different and you might need to make new habits, but give Opera one week, and I’ll bet that it’ll push your other browsers over to that dusty corner of “seldom used” programs.
:cheers:
(that’d be a special Opera forums smiley nod and a wink for those in the know (they know who they are))