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Opera making headway...so if people get use to Opera then Linux people can use this as a selling point. This is so cool. "Everyone is trying to make sure they aren't dependent on Microsoft," von Tetzchner said. "So, every time Microsoft does something new like this, we end up getting more customers." http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2766177,00.html -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
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My experience with Opera has been less than thrilling. It loads
slower than Netscape. They claim it is faster than NS, but on a Webcam
site that was refreshing nearly every second, it could not keep up.
About 2/3 of the picture would render before it started again. Before
long it would crash on this site.
Yesterday I tried to use it to print a Consumers Report report on a
car I am looking to buy and it spit out Postscript that Ghostview and
Ghostscript gagged on.
There doesn't seem to be anyway to tell it to accept a certificate
that doesn't link back to one to the built-in ones permanently, just
for a sesssion.
Jeffrey
Quoting Ben Rosenberg
Opera making headway...so if people get use to Opera then Linux people can use this as a selling point. This is so cool.
"Everyone is trying to make sure they aren't dependent on Microsoft," von Tetzchner said. "So, every time Microsoft does something new like this, we end up getting more customers."
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2766177,00.html
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It's odd because my experience has been just the opposite. Opera
loads in a flash and has been extremely stable with very low memory
overhead. I can have 15 windows open and notice no appreciable
slowing, which is not true with Netscape. I have 64MB memory btw. Are
you using the dynamically linked or statically linked version of
Opera? The latter is certainly recommended, and some people see
performance issues disappear after switching to it. As for the other
problems I don't know.
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I have the statically linked version and 384MB of memory.
Jeffrey
Quoting Corvin Russell
It's odd because my experience has been just the opposite. Opera loads in a flash and has been extremely stable with very low memory overhead. I can have 15 windows open and notice no appreciable slowing, which is not true with Netscape. I have 64MB memory btw. Are you using the dynamically linked or statically linked version of Opera? The latter is certainly recommended, and some people see performance issues disappear after switching to it. As for the other problems I don't know.
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Ben Rosenberg
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Corvin Russell
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Jeffrey Taylor