Opera is fast!
I'm really looking forward to the release of Firefox 1.5. One of the things I'm hoping for with this release is faster page rendering. I just fired up Opera 8.5 and I find it to be much faster than Firefox, both to launch and render pages. Scrolling is really fast in Opera. I don't enjoy Opera's interface as much as Firefox's though.
I also hope that Real Player works better in Firefox 1.5. I've never been able to check out audio samples at Amazon using Firefox; Real Player won't load and play the clips. So, I usually launch IE to do any audio browsing. I've looked in the MozillaZine forums for clues to solve this, but didn't find that the solutions did the trick for me.
November 25th, 2005 at 10:14 am
I upgraded to Opera 8.51 yesterday and started to surf immediately. I did not find Opera to render pages faster than Firefox and much less than Flock. I've read too many posts about Opera being faster than Firefox, but I just don't see it.
To surf the web, I use Flock (still under Beta) because of its speed. To post my blogs I use Firefox due to its great functionality with photos, tabs, spellers and personalized extensions.
Regarding, audio browsing at Amazon, I have no problems with Firefox. There must be a missing plug-in with your Firefox browser. FYI, I'm using Firefox v1.07, and can't wait 'till 1.5 hit the streets (soon).
Those are my two cents, for whatever they're worth.
Cheers,
Omar.-
December 2nd, 2005 at 12:42 pm
Thanks for your comments, Omar! I'm looking forward to running some tests with Opera against FF 1.5. I upgraded a couple of weeks ago to FF 1.5, but most of the plugins I use were not yet ready for the new release, so I downgraded. I haven't tried Flock yet, though I grabbed a development download about 6 weeks ago. It's really fast, eh?
I'll have to investigate the FF/Amazon thing again. I went through a bunch of plugin related fixes that were posted in the MozillaZine forums, but nothing worked for me. I'll give it a spin with FF 1.5.
cheers
SAM