Everyone should get rid of firefox and explorer

Rasel said:

I actually really like it. I found different interfaces that suit me. Also, the Speed Dial thing is cool.

Speaking of RAM, I just recently added 2 1-gig sticks of DDR DIMM to my other 2 1-gig sticks. So it SHOULD read as ~4gig but it only reads as 2.87 gigs. Ideas?

I do think Opera seems to be a lot faster though... I also really like the tabbing system, for example. how it saves all the pages that were on there last. It's great for ongoing projects w/o having to save them. Also, I like the side panel system... showing Transfers, Page Info, etc.

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amkdeath said:

[quote author=Rasel link=1202580308/15#17 date=1202674716]I actually really like it. I found different interfaces that suit me. Also, the Speed Dial thing is cool.

Speaking of RAM, I just recently added 2 1-gig sticks of DDR DIMM to my other 2 1-gig sticks. So it SHOULD read as ~4gig but it only reads as 2.87 gigs. Ideas?

I do think Opera seems to be a lot faster though... I also really like the tabbing system, for example. how it saves all the pages that were on there last. It's great for ongoing projects w/o having to save them. Also, I like the side panel system... showing Transfers, Page Info, etc.

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Rasel said:

[quote author=amkdeath link=1202580308/15#19 date=1202706135][quote author=Rasel link=1202580308/15#17 date=1202674716]I actually really like it. I found different interfaces that suit me. Also, the Speed Dial thing is cool.

Speaking of RAM, I just recently added 2 1-gig sticks of DDR DIMM to my other 2 1-gig sticks. So it SHOULD read as ~4gig but it only reads as 2.87 gigs. Ideas?

I do think Opera seems to be a lot faster though... I also really like the tabbing system, for example. how it saves all the pages that were on there last. It's great for ongoing projects w/o having to save them. Also, I like the side panel system... showing Transfers, Page Info, etc.

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Switch said:

I have been using opera for a few years too.I have to say it's my favorite browser.It can download from torrents too I got a 9 mbps download speed once From a server in another country, and my internet connection ussually sucks big.I didn't really use mozila so I wouldn't know, but IE sucks big big huge b@llz.They've only introduced tabbed browsing in 7.0 while opera and firefox were having it for ages(I think mozila had it even when it was called firebird :-/ )

Oh and the WL page is all screwy in Opera It's probably getting clogged with all the BS on their site

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wooooooolazer said:

Hm, now something is acting kind of weird... after im on opera for 20 min or so it will just sudenly stop working... it wont download anything and i have to restart my computer to get it working again, what do you think is wrong?

...lazer... ;D ;D ;D

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BlueFusion said:

My take on all this:
I have always used firefox since primary school. I went out of my way to learn some things I shouldn't know about my school's network to find out what it took to use it there.
In my experience it is THE fastest. I decided to just run some tests and here are my results.

I loaded 5 tabs in each browser. eBay, Microsoft.com, Google Docs, Gmail, and LPF home.
I set them all as homepage tabs, and with nothing else running started them one at a time and timed them.

Browser	RAM used	Load time
IE	42,430k	2min 23 sec
FireFox	25,129k	19 seconds
Opera	33,982k	41 seconds

Test bed:
Vista Home Premium SP1 32 bit
2.5GB DDR2 800 5-5-5
E4500 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz @ 2.4ghz 2MB L2 Cache
Gigabyte P35-DS3L board
10,000RPM 80GB WD SATA hard drive
89% RAM free, 94% CPU free @ time of testing
512k down 512k up internet connection

So as we all know. IE sucks. But it seems, at least for me, Firefox is faster than Opera. And with good reason... I have spent some time tweaking my connection settings for multiple server connection threads etc, to get the best performance possible.


One more thing I have to say... PLEASE DO NOT USE ADBLOCK!
Annoying as they are, allowing ads to be present benefits others without harming you.
Using adblock means advertisers do not get their pageviews, which means they don't pay the advertising hosts, which means that in a case like this forum, using adblock is going to end up hurting c0ld's income and the forum at large!
It also especially hurts small businesses who can barely afford any advertising, which is the backbone of a small business, and perhaps ads not being viewed ends up meaning they can't advertise due to increased cost from the hosts due to less ads getting through.

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ditto on the ads, I even once in a while click on a few of them, heck, as blu said, its not hurting me, just helping others...

very interesting what you can do with a few clicks and a good 30 seconds...

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