Comments on: Is Opera 10.50 Really the Fastest? http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: url shortener blogger http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-389685 url shortener blogger Sun, 09 Sep 2012 06:33:40 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-389685 Somebody essentially assist to make critically articles I'd state. This is the very first time I frequented your website page and to this point? I surprised with the analysis you made to create this particular post incredible. Fantastic activity! Somebody essentially assist to make critically articles I’d state. This is the very first time I frequented your website page and to this point? I surprised with the analysis you made to create this particular post incredible. Fantastic activity!

]]> By: tzrick http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8155 tzrick Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8155 <p>While Opera is tab-based for life, you can take a tab and make it into its own window, simply by dragging the tab outside of the main browser window (Works like this in Windows...I had issues upgrading 10.10 to 10.50 on my virtual Ubuntu install to test). </p> <p>You can also replace that tab by dragging the tab in the newly-created window back into the tab area of the main window. </p> While Opera is tab-based for life, you can take a tab and make it into its own window, simply by dragging the tab outside of the main browser window (Works like this in Windows…I had issues upgrading 10.10 to 10.50 on my virtual Ubuntu install to test).

You can also replace that tab by dragging the tab in the newly-created window back into the tab area of the main window.

]]> By: chavoux http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8156 chavoux Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8156 <p>I am a long-time Opera user and fan and must confess that Opera has become too big and slow for my taste. I am still using slow internet connections, so a fast browser is important. To me one of the most useful features of Opera is turning images (and download of big images) off and on using a singe click. </p> I am a long-time Opera user and fan and must confess that Opera has become too big and slow for my taste. I am still using slow internet connections, so a fast browser is important. To me one of the most useful features of Opera is turning images (and download of big images) off and on using a singe click.

]]> By: perfmonk http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8157 perfmonk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8157 <p>There is an EPUBReader extension in Firefox that reads electronic books.</p> <p>Note that you must use the minimum extensions if you want maximum speed with your browser.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p> BT </p> There is an EPUBReader extension in Firefox that reads electronic books.

Note that you must use the minimum extensions if you want maximum speed with your browser.

Regards,

BT

]]> By: radagast http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8158 radagast Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8158 <p>chavoux : does opera turbo help you? i use firefox on my work machine and opera on my netbook for exactly this reason - it\'s smaller, faster, and turbo enables itself when you\'re on a slow network. </p> chavoux : does opera turbo help you? i use firefox on my work machine and opera on my netbook for exactly this reason – it\’s smaller, faster, and turbo enables itself when you\’re on a slow network.

]]> By: matador http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8159 matador Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8159 <p>A note about speed:</p> <p>I\'ve been following the \"Opera Desktop Team\" blog for a while now and there\'s a lot of interesting information you can get from it. Usually Windows, Mac and Linux builds are released simultanously. With the EU browser-choice thing, Opera decided to push out the Windows version and work on the rest later. The specifically mentioned speed is not on par througout the OSes, yet. So lets wait for the release and see how fast it is ;)</p> <p>Also, they rewrote the complete UI to make it use whatever toolkit is appropriate (GTK for GNOME, Aero for Win7, Qt for KDE and Cocoa for Mac). Internally they always used their own Toolkit which in the end translated everything to Qt on all platforms. For some that made Opera look a bit out of place.</p> <p>I guess using GTK is more work than they expected ;) </p> A note about speed:

I\’ve been following the \”Opera Desktop Team\” blog for a while now and there\’s a lot of interesting information you can get from it. Usually Windows, Mac and Linux builds are released simultanously. With the EU browser-choice thing, Opera decided to push out the Windows version and work on the rest later. The specifically mentioned speed is not on par througout the OSes, yet. So lets wait for the release and see how fast it is ;)

Also, they rewrote the complete UI to make it use whatever toolkit is appropriate (GTK for GNOME, Aero for Win7, Qt for KDE and Cocoa for Mac). Internally they always used their own Toolkit which in the end translated everything to Qt on all platforms. For some that made Opera look a bit out of place.

I guess using GTK is more work than they expected ;)

]]> By: heu http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8160 heu Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8160 <p>Not at all. Opera 10.50 on Linux SUCKS (literally). I\'ve been using Opera on both Linux and Windows since about 2001 because of its low memory footprint, speed and customization features. Needless to say that I love it and usually Opera is the first software I install and make the default browser with every new install I make despite the long time problems with flash on linux. I made the mistake of installing 10.50 beta (because of some problems that appeared with the dialog boxes after a Qt upgrade) and I\'ve been updating it to the latest snaphshot.I can say that 10.50 on linux is NOT EVEN THERE. It\'s slow, it gets as slow as a pachiderm to open dialog boxes, crashes every now and then and after its crashed there\'s some web sites that just won\'t open anymore so I have to keep chrome open along with opera. If I were sure that I can revert to the prior version (which I am happy with on both OpenSUSE and Sabayon) without damaging my emails (Yeah I use opera as my email client) I would do it right now and without a blink. As you can see, with me speed (actually the lack of it) is the last concern. </p> Not at all. Opera 10.50 on Linux SUCKS (literally). I\’ve been using Opera on both Linux and Windows since about 2001 because of its low memory footprint, speed and customization features. Needless to say that I love it and usually Opera is the first software I install and make the default browser with every new install I make despite the long time problems with flash on linux. I made the mistake of installing 10.50 beta (because of some problems that appeared with the dialog boxes after a Qt upgrade) and I\’ve been updating it to the latest snaphshot.I can say that 10.50 on linux is NOT EVEN THERE. It\’s slow, it gets as slow as a pachiderm to open dialog boxes, crashes every now and then and after its crashed there\’s some web sites that just won\’t open anymore so I have to keep chrome open along with opera. If I were sure that I can revert to the prior version (which I am happy with on both OpenSUSE and Sabayon) without damaging my emails (Yeah I use opera as my email client) I would do it right now and without a blink. As you can see, with me speed (actually the lack of it) is the last concern.

]]> By: hartford3 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8161 hartford3 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8161 <p>It just didn\'t work for me. Too much junk. Way to complicated. Not fast as Chrome or FF. I may be imagining things but when I dumped it in trash had a hell of a time getting rid of the system changes it makes. </p> It just didn\’t work for me. Too much junk. Way to complicated. Not fast as Chrome or FF. I may be imagining things but when I dumped it in trash had a hell of a time getting rid of the system changes it makes.

]]> By: lrirwin http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8162 lrirwin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7743/#comment-8162 <p>The reviewer stated that most browsers were fast enough...<br /> Intimating that speed is no longer a top issue...<br /> We write AJAX apps with tons of editable fields on the screen served up in local environments - speed IS the top issue.<br /> Google Chrome processes AJAX apps (read javascript) much, much faster than IE, FireFox, Safari or Opera.<br /> We support them all, but recommend Chrome because of it\'s speed and conservation of screen real-estate. </p> The reviewer stated that most browsers were fast enough…
Intimating that speed is no longer a top issue…
We write AJAX apps with tons of editable fields on the screen served up in local environments – speed IS the top issue.
Google Chrome processes AJAX apps (read javascript) much, much faster than IE, FireFox, Safari or Opera.
We support them all, but recommend Chrome because of it\’s speed and conservation of screen real-estate.

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