Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jun 2008 11:07 UTC
Linux.com has a review of Opera 9.5, which also includes various benchmarks for Opera, Firefox, Safari, and IE on both Windows and Linux. Linuxcom concludes: "Opera 9.5 is full to the brim with features and improvements and highly customizable. By rolling in apps such as the mail client and IRC chat application, and integrating them into a user's browsing experience, Opera 9.5 is a worthy challenger to Firefox 3. It surely has enough power and features to make it my favorite browser. If only it were free software and open source!"
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2005-11-14
"I'll bite"
You hereby are mistaken "free" as in beer and "Free" as in Freedom. Pathetic.
More seriously, and despite the mistake of yours, obviously, people are bored of comparing Emacs and Vim, comparing MacOS, Linux and Windows, KDE and Gnome, so now its all about Firefox and Opera.
The bottom line is: everyone is spreading a bunch of FUD.
Let's take yours: Do you honestly think, for f--k sakes, that no one is looking at the Firefox code source?
How do you think people discover vulnerabilities, by luck?
How do you think, that during my daily job, I fix issues with Firefox?
We provide it to customers, and we're able to fix it when trouble arise. I couldn't fix Opera like that, because it isn't Open source.
Maybe that, by now, you've taken your head out of your ass and you start looking at the world around you: maybe a closed source software makes no *direct* difference to you, but it does to others.
Note that, by not figuring out that you indirectly get a lot of Free support through Open source software, it makes you look dumb.
This aside, Opera is a very decent browser, as well as Firefox. I prefer Firefox myself because I don't like the interface and integration of Opera. That's really a matter of taste, I guess.
Features and performance are ok. For company use, I prefer Firefox by a large margin because we can fix it or make it do whatever we need to. In fact, we wouldn't even think about Opera.