Opera or Firefox ?

Trying to decide whether to go with Opera or Firefox and was wondering what the opinions
of each were.

TIA

Unknown One wrote:
> Trying to decide whether to go with Opera or Firefox and was wondering what the opinions
> of each were.

Both very, very good, hard to seperate.
Only by trying will you know what suits your skill level & computer.
You can have lots of browsers installed, just a matter of choosing
which one you want as default.

If you are a geek ( I mean it in the nice way) you might want firefox
since its extensions site gives you a tremendus amount of things to
customize and expand your browsing experience.

I think that this is the one thing that will keep firefox going and going...


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"Unknown One" <unknown@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Trying to decide whether to go with Opera or Firefox and was wondering
> what the opinions
> of each were.
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> TIA
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:23 GMT, Unknown One <unknown@yahoo.com>
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>Trying to decide whether to go with Opera or Firefox and was wondering what the opinions
>of each were.
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>TIA
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I prefer FF, due to the many useful extensions available,
although Opera may be a tad faster.
At any rate, they're both free...why not try 'em both and see
which one suits you?

On 29 Mar 2006 16:31:52 -0800, jmatt@webace.com.au wrote Re Re: Opera
or Firefox ?:

>Unknown One wrote:
>> Trying to decide whether to go with Opera or Firefox and was wondering what the opinions
>> of each were.
>
>Both very, very good, hard to seperate.
>Only by trying will you know what suits your skill level & computer.
>You can have lots of browsers installed, just a matter of choosing
>which one you want as default.

I'll second the above. However IMO the Bookmarks in Opera are far
better than in FF.
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Unknown One wrote:

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> Trying to decide whether to go with Opera or Firefox and was
> wondering what the opinions of each were.
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> TIA


I use Firefox even though I have Opera installed. I like using a third
party password program that does not integrate into Opera (otherwise I
would use it more). I like the Opera feature to make the webpage being
viewed fit your browser window. Opera is also faster in my opinion, but
at the cost of functionality that I want.

I agree with everyone here though. Try them both and see which you
prefer. You are not out much more than time and you may find that you
use them both.

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:50:37 +0300, "john" <-> wrote:

>If you are a geek ( I mean it in the nice way) you might want firefox
>since its extensions site gives you a tremendus amount of things to
>customize and expand your browsing experience.

I must be an easy geek, then. The tabification stuff settled it for
me. Not just the tabs, but center-button click on a link for open in
new tab, same thing on a tab to close it, move the tabs around, etc.
Makes working on fora easier.

Unknown One <unknown@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> Trying to decide whether to go with Opera or Firefox and
> was wondering what the opinions of each were.
>
> TIA
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I have been using Opera since version 3, it's now 8.5, and
wouldn't think of changing.

I went to it because you could customize the colors, fonts, and
font size of pages displayed. I like viewing pages with a
uniforms colors and fonts. You can now specify them in a
personal style sheet.

Also I could not live without the zoom feature to size pages in
my window.

Opera also has a feature to save web pages as text files.
Unlike IE, I don't know about FF, you can save them as text
files that you can manipulate with a word processor. IE screws
up saved text files with hard returns that make it impossible to
separate lines from paragraphs in a word processor. I print a
lot of pages to read. I like to read them in two column small
text to minimize the amount of paper that I use. I can do that
with Opera and WordPerfect.

I also could not live without the keyboard customization
function in Opera.

Unknown One wrote:
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> Trying to decide whether to go with Opera or Firefox and was wondering what the opinions
> of each were.
>
> TIA
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If Opera's instructions on how to use an external mail/news client
worked, I'd use Opera. But they don't, so FireFox is the choice for now.

Don Malone wrote:

> Unknown One wrote:
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> > Trying to decide whether to go with Opera or Firefox and was
> > wondering what the opinions of each were.
> >
> > TIA
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> I use Firefox even though I have Opera installed. I like using a third
> party password program that does not integrate into Opera (otherwise I
> would use it more). I like the Opera feature to make the webpage being
> viewed fit your browser window. Opera is also faster in my opinion, but
> at the cost of functionality that I want.
>
> I agree with everyone here though. Try them both and see which you
> prefer. You are not out much more than time and you may find that you
> use them both.
>
> --

That comment on webpage fitting window interests me since I run at 880 X
600 and often need to scroll horizontally. Does Opera take care of that?
If yes, a good URL to get it.

TIA

Lou
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