back to firefox - from opera
okay, every few months or so, i make the switch… i try out another browser for awhile, and see if i like it. usually, i end up going back to thunderbird pretty quickly. i just spent about three weeks using opera, and i am back again. this time, i decided to keep notes on what i didn’t like about opera. here goes:
cons:
opera has a weird way of dealing with stored usernames and passwords. it doesn’t always act as i would expect. it mostly never does. i guess i should have given it more time and figured it out, but that’s another sort of beef. i dont’ want to spend a whole lot of time figuring out easy stuff.
opera kinda chokes on have javascript. this was really evident using google reader (which i use for all my rss needs). google reader slows to a crawl on opera.
search feature - opera has the search feature wired. no popup box, just a little search tab on the bottom of the window. that is much nicer.
tabs - firefox has a much more natural tab handler. i can’t pinpoint exactly what the difference is. it might be that i just like firefox’s handling better.
images- on image intensive pages, opera does not pre size the images. this might be why the pages start to render faster, but this causes another problem. once the images start to render, the page is resized and shifted several times, making it hard to read any text while the page renders. many times, i just need some text, but the whole page is jumping around loading images, and so i have to wait for that.
auto complete - the autocomplete in firefox is really handy. i am sure it works somehow in opera, but i didn’t want to mess around too much looking for it. firefox has this one nailed.
pros:
opera and safari are just FASTER than opera.
opera seems to be more reponsive to mouse gestures than firefox..
that being said, i will probably start my own browswer war again sometime soon.