Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Oct 2007 16:19 UTC, submitted by abdavidson

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2007-10-26
Yeah, i registered just to be able to express my love for opera.
I have to say that i'm really impressed how much better the 9.5 beta1 for unix is than previous releases. The previous versions were way behind windows versions in speed, but this new beta is really responsive & fast. Plus it takes ~15Mb of memory with 15 tabs open, while thunderbird takes ~20Mb...
I think that open-source software, when i gets big enough, suffers from not having a boss saying: now we'll rewrite the engine. On open source you have long debates whether to rewrite or not.
This is one closed-source software that i can really recommend. Rarely you see a engine rewrite that actually makes things way better in all aspects (at least that's what seems like now).
Sorry for the post being a bit incoherent, i had to pretend working while writing it...