Opera 9.21
Opera is one of the vast choices of browsers available these days. I’ve heard a lot of rave reviews about it from friends so I thought I’d check it out. I’ve never been a fan of Internet Explorer which is too buggy for my taste. I use Mozilla Firefox which more than suits my needs, so it would be impossible for me to not compare Firefox and Opera.
The Opera browser has come along way since it was developed back in 1994. Over the years it has been under the shadow of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Then Firefox came along with all its free enriched add-ons goodness that to succumb Internet Explorer to the position that it is now. Second best. Now it looks like it’s going to drop down one more position to Opera. Opera and Firefox is fighting for the top place and Opera has just won me over.
Opera 9.21 has one of the most unique features that I have seen in a browser. The Speed Dial. It allows the user to put up to 9 usually visited websites in one page when you open a new tab, with the ability to see all the updated versions of each website when the page is reloaded. It’s really easy to browse in this way over typing the URL every time or going over to your bookmarks and clicking the page you want to go.
The other thing is this browser is darn fast and isn’t prone to crashes unlike Firefox and Explorer. I have no idea why this browser is faster than Firefox but it loads the pages a hell of a lot faster.
Opera has no problem importing the bookmarks from other browsers and it does this for you automatically when it is installed. It also has all the typical functions of other browsers such as tabbed browsing, a pop up blocker as well as a download manager installed.
New features include the:
- Voice = It controls Opera’s interface by talking to it and it even reads out documents aloud. Neat!
- In built bit torrent client although not as good as utorrent.
- Widgets such as Gmail Checker, Fish tank and many more.
- Less RAM consumption which a really big plus. Take that memory crunching Fox!
- Mouse gestures which is an innovative idea. But needs some practice.
Firefox has been so buggy for me lately and Opera has become a really mouth watering option. It’s fast and sleek and all you ever want to do is browse with this wonderful browser. Now if there was a way to transfer all the passwords of the sites that I visit to from Firefox to Opera. Hmmm.
Note: I’ve never used Safari so I don’t know anything about it except that it’s been recently ported to Windows from Mac.
July 21, 2007 at 4:34 am
I’m a fan of Opera… I use OperaMini on my fone too..
July 26, 2007 at 7:35 am
heyy I use Opera too.. I’m not a techy person but I prefer it more than Mozilla or any other browser
July 26, 2007 at 8:01 am
Cool. Now that makes two people who prefers Opera.
I need to turn more people. Hmm.
July 26, 2007 at 10:33 am
I use Firefox but I do have Opera on my comp and I use it sometimes. And yep it consumes less RAM.. but uh I’m so used to all the add-ons on Firefox that I don’t think I can fully change to just using Opera hmm.
Cool post, Maail.
July 27, 2007 at 12:06 pm
i like opera too. after using opera…its just too frikking hard to use firefox. lol. i have firefox installed though. only use it when i get bored because of the stumbleupon plugin.
July 29, 2007 at 3:28 am
Same here.
Opera doesn’t support Free Download Manager or vice versa. That’s the only problem I’ve got with it now.
Other than that it’s still great! ^_^
July 30, 2007 at 4:19 am
I’ve heard quite a lot about Opera lately. I even tried it once. But didn’t like it much. Maybe coz I was used to Firefox. It takes time to adjust I guess.