Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th May 2007 17:43 UTC, submitted by shykid
"When Firefox launched in beta release five years ago, it burst on the open-source browser scene like a young Elvis Presley - slim, sexy and dangerous. Since then it has attracted millions of users, generally set the agenda for browser development and unseated Microsoft's IE as the de facto monopoly in the field. But, with Firefox 3.0 poised for release later this year, the 'IE killer' is in danger of morphing into an early Fat Elvis, if increasing numbers of die-hard fans turned reluctant critics are any guide."
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2006-01-26
Please don't say lies like this, it's totally false.
I'm a Opera user since early 9 version to the today's one (9.10) and I'm very unhappy with the experience on Opera. This occour to me even more than with Firefox.
I experienced a lot of bugs seeing certain sites, crashes that later deleted my bookmarks and tabs. I was unable to recovering those pages I needed to read, so again using google and wasting even some hours.
I had very bad experiences with most web browsers: Firefox and Opera both are quite buggy and corrupt bookmarks and unable to recover sites. Even both haver quite big rendering problems and slowdowns. On the other hand, Internet Explorer is even worser in most aspects.
I hope more renderers like WebKit or better are going to be developed, but that maybe cannot happen due to the web world becoming an annoying mass of bloated technologies. I think the web must evolve into a new standard with all the needed stuff but becoming simple and avoiding bloat.
Maybe the WebKit port to KDE could help the appear of kightweight browsers using toolkits like FLTK2. Sometimes I use Dillo because is quite fast, but it lacks most standards for becoming a really usable browser. It seems tkhtml2 is a dead project, it was promising at the time.
Edited 2007-05-18 22:05