It’s official: I’m a switcher.
Posted by thepythonista on 2 June 2008
I’ve decided to switch web browsers. I’ve been using Firefox, and, while it’s been generally adequate, I’ve found Opera to be superior. Opera seems to use less memory, have more features, and be faster than Firefox, based on my testing. On the other hand, Opera is not Free Software.
I’m rather disappointed about this last bit. If Opera were Free Software, chances are I wouldn’t even bother making a post about it. Ideologically, however, it feels like a defeat.
If anybody knows of any web browser that
- Runs on Linux (preferably installable from the Ubuntu repositories),
- Uses significantly less memory than Firefox,
- Renders relatively quickly and with an eye toward standards-compliance, and
- Has support for Flash and Java
I’d like to hear about it. In the meantime, I’m going to keep testing other browsers, but I suspect I’ll end up sticking with Opera.
One thing Opera has on top of all those other things is a wiki with lots of tips and tricks for running it. That’s a small plus, but I’d take a browser without a wiki that was Free Software and met my other conditions over it any day.
Ho hum, what’s a Pythonista to do?
ameo said
sorry for bringing up an old post .
but I’m interested to know what have you ended with ?
still with FireFox , or opera ?
for the part that opera isn’t free . well it’s free just not open-source .[ and that what makes it restricted for any programmer to code anything to work with it .
as for me I’m an opera fan still use firefox or ie once a day