Opera 6.0

FalcomPSX · February 13th, 2002, 04:19 AM

I'm using it right now, and i gotta say, i like it, it's faster and has a MUCH more useful status bar to check if your connection is still alive...I'm almost about to make it my default browser and maybe even buy it...

vass0922 · February 13th, 2002, 04:36 AM

yeah the status bar is awesome
The one thing that gets me at work though, is if I'm downloading something large. It starts downloading while you're choosing where to save it to
Well due to the bandwidth at work it NAILS my system so it doesn't like me saving things while its downloading lol

so sometimes I'll download with IE just so I don't get that side effect
NO WORRIES at home though, hell I couldn't nail a 486 with my download speeds from here LOL

I love it that you can double click a word and you have all sorts of options

FalcomPSX · February 13th, 2002, 12:05 PM

what kind of bandwidth do you have at work?
I got 3-4Mbps at home and never had a problem yet..

deltaf508 · February 13th, 2002, 06:36 PM

Sweeeeet, I totally forgot about the double click thingy.

Thanks for reminding me. I'm convinced that if any Real internet user would do a "Taste test" between opera and IE. Most (70% or more) would choose opera....It is that good.

I love it. Good choice Falcom.

Gary

vass0922 · February 13th, 2002, 06:47 PM

Most I've seen is 9mbps but that was on a bandwidth test.

hell I'd be happy with 100k at home let alone 3/4mbps lol

FalcomPSX · February 15th, 2002, 01:43 AM

haha, cable modems are awesome when you have a good company that provides decent bandwidth, at&t sucks at 1.5mbps compared to average cable speeds of around 3-5mbps for most providers i've seen.

vass0922 · February 15th, 2002, 02:16 AM

I was downloading 3dmark2001se today
by the time I was able to finally pick where to save it, it was done downloading

SLOW lol

FalcomPSX · February 15th, 2002, 03:08 AM

that's bad when your internet is faster then your computer...

MDdan · February 15th, 2002, 01:53 PM

yeah, I'm using Opera 6.0 preview 3 right now and I'm very impressed.

Before using this, I was very annoyed with how slow Mozilla & Netscape 4.7 were on this Redhat 7.2 machine.

But Opera runs as very well. I may end up liking it better than IE, but for now I gotta say I really like IE 6.0 on XP. Nice and fast, and everyone builds their pages to work with IE.

That's the unfortunate reality, Opera follows the HTML rules, but IE has become the standard. So the non-standard browser works better than the one that follows the standard. $%#@ Microsoft won the browser wars it would seem.

Gonna keep trying this Opera thing though...I'd be happy to drop IE on Windows if I can find a better replacement.

EndobioticChaos · February 15th, 2002, 02:13 PM

Well if it's that good, I guess I'll have to try it!