Re: CHAT: browsers

En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:

>
> I use Opera on both Windows (at work) and Linux (at home). Ever since
> I
> started using it, I've not gone back to Mozilla and I've completely
> replaced all browser functions on the office Windows desktop with
> Opera.
I'm planning on doing it as soon as I get Opera to work correctly with my
webmail (I tried to read my emails through the email client of Opera, but
although it manages to download the IMAP folders and the titles of the mails, I
can't get it to download the messages themselves :(( . So I don't know if it
would work there... If you have an idea how to make it work, I'd be more than
happy :) ).

> On Linux, I find Mozilla too heavy: it seems to be painfully slow
> unless
> you're running the latest, greatest hardware.
Well, at least I'm not the only one having this problem. Under Linux at work it
is just painful. It's better now that I have 512Mo of RAM instead of 64, but
it's still painfully slow.

 I've not been able to
> successfully run Konqueror or Galeon -- they seem to be overly tied to
> the
> KDE/GNOME desktop, and just don't work with VTWM. Opera is both
> lightweight, fast, and supports almost every site that MSIE supports.
Yep. Until now, I haven't been able to find a site that IE can open and Opera
can't. I even found a site that IE has difficulties to open but Opera works out
like a breeze! And it is generally as fast as IE, contrary to Netscape and co.,
even when loading! And it handles encodings much better than IE (and has much
more choice too. For less than 4Mb of download, I think that's quite nice!

Only thing IE seems to do better than Opera is using Windows's Symbol fonts.
But I know it's a common problem of non-IE browsers. But unfortunately I need
to be able to use the Symbol fonts (i.e. the tag <FONT FACE="symbol">). If you
know any way to do it (I found a trick working with Opera 6 but it cannot work
with Opera 7), I'd be extremely happy to hear it :) .

> Except those that insist on using IE-specific features, of course; but
> Opera even supports IE's JScript extensions when in IE-compatibility
> mode.
>
Is IE-compatibility mode the "Identify as..." preference thing? I find it funny
that Opera can pretend to be IE or Mozilla ;))) .

> I know a lot of Linux people complain about Opera 'cos it's
> proprietary,
> but I think if there's one piece of software worth paying for, Opera
> is
> it. It has a very nice, clean interface, and clean, lightweight
> design.
> Just such a pleasure to use.
I agree. Once you begin using the mouse gestures, you really get addicted to
them! It's making things so much faster! And I just love being able to google
by typing "g something" ;))) .

 _K0'romin Pe_. :-)  Even if you don't buy
> it,
> the free version is fully functional and is supported by a
> non-intrusive
> ad. (And I think Opera 7 comes ad-less for 14 days or something.)
>
Indeed. I'm at the 2nd day right now. If when the ad appears it's the same as
with Opera 6, it shouldn't be a problem. It doesn't take much place. It's not
even as annoying as Winzip reminding you each time that you open it that you
haven't registered yet ;))) .

Christophe.

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