"With Opera recently releasing their web browser completely free of Ads, it is a good time to let the truth be told. Not only is Opera faster then Firefox in all performance areas, it is much more secure and more compliant."
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Member since:2005-10-02
funny though, that all browsers on my windows system have pretty much the same load time from cold boot, and the same low memory usage: Below 30 MB of ram with 10+ tabs opened with heavy pages loaded in all tabs though FF has some issues after a longer period of use (not freeing the memory).
IE, Opera, FF, Mozilla, Netscape 7.2 and K-Meleon all starts in around than 5 seconds. And IE, Mozilla, Netscape 7.2 and K-Meleon all benefits from preloading when starting new instance (just remember to click on the icon in the systray - especially for K-meleon. Otherwise it'll ruin the menues in K-Meleon).
I've tried Opera several times, and it's okay but doesn't really give me anything special. And it lacks several elements from Firefox. I have a nice little collection of extensions I can't get for Opera. But Mozilla/Netscape with preloading is great too, and K-Meleon is the ruler - don't need links2 for sure 
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2005-06-29
It's been a long time I've told it. Opera uses less memory, is faster, loads faster, is more feature-rich that firefox-base.
In other words, it's better.