Let feed this troll!
Opera can do both. Without the need for silly QA-less extensions.
I've never measured it, but over the years I've used both Opera and Firefox on low-CPU systems, and found Opera performance to be *far* superior, even with the new "speed-improved" firefox 3.
Two examples:
I recently have been using a mix of Firefox and Opera on my OpenBSD system, I did this because I wanted to switch to firefox (Opera has issues on OpenBSD due to linux emulation), this is on my laptop with pretty aggressive CPU throttling enabled (Meaning my T8300 is running at 800Mhz almost all of the time).
Opera is noticeably faster, especially after I had to install a number of extensions for firefox (Mostly stuff that is included by default on Opera).
Second example is my workstation at work, which is a Celeron 1.7GHz Windows XP machine, Opera is much faster on this machine. I used firefox in the past because our intranet doesn't work with Opera. I finally managed to hack together a custom UserCSS to get it working with Opera. (Can firefox do this btw?)?
I never look at memory usage and all that nonsense, it's the user experience that counts, how much memory the app uses is of little interest of me.
I've been using both Opera and firefox for many years. I started out with firefox back when it was still called firebird, and with Opera back when you had the advertisement.
I would like to use a free software browser, but at the same time the free webbrowser applications (including firefox) simply do not work for me for a number of reasons ... Opera is a much better application on every single issue I can think of at this point ... Except of course that it isn't free software.
It's not so much that Opera is the best webbrowser out there, just the one that sucks the least ...
It is a common misunderstanding that Opera does not support extensions, it does, you can use UserJS (Same as Greasemonkey), add custom menu items, buttons, etc.
Here's my current Opera setup btw, how many extensions do I need to get the same effect with firefox? Remember, every extensions is a piece of code without QA, which slows the application down, is something you need to search for (And possibly compare to other similar extensions), need to update, etc.
http://www.rwxrwxrwx.net/desktop.png
Now I'll look how can I manage cookies and block adds.... if Opera can do that, and some more features that I use on Firefox
Opera can do both. Without the need for silly QA-less extensions.
seams opera use at least 2-3x less CPU, that Firefox
I've never measured it, but over the years I've used both Opera and Firefox on low-CPU systems, and found Opera performance to be *far* superior, even with the new "speed-improved" firefox 3.
Two examples:
I recently have been using a mix of Firefox and Opera on my OpenBSD system, I did this because I wanted to switch to firefox (Opera has issues on OpenBSD due to linux emulation), this is on my laptop with pretty aggressive CPU throttling enabled (Meaning my T8300 is running at 800Mhz almost all of the time).
Opera is noticeably faster, especially after I had to install a number of extensions for firefox (Mostly stuff that is included by default on Opera).
Second example is my workstation at work, which is a Celeron 1.7GHz Windows XP machine, Opera is much faster on this machine. I used firefox in the past because our intranet doesn't work with Opera. I finally managed to hack together a custom UserCSS to get it working with Opera. (Can firefox do this btw?)?
I never look at memory usage and all that nonsense, it's the user experience that counts, how much memory the app uses is of little interest of me.
I've been using both Opera and firefox for many years. I started out with firefox back when it was still called firebird, and with Opera back when you had the advertisement.
I would like to use a free software browser, but at the same time the free webbrowser applications (including firefox) simply do not work for me for a number of reasons ... Opera is a much better application on every single issue I can think of at this point ... Except of course that it isn't free software.
It's not so much that Opera is the best webbrowser out there, just the one that sucks the least ...
Its one of the best browsers (Firefox may be only considered because of extensions, without extensions, Opera is the best).
It is a common misunderstanding that Opera does not support extensions, it does, you can use UserJS (Same as Greasemonkey), add custom menu items, buttons, etc.
Here's my current Opera setup btw, how many extensions do I need to get the same effect with firefox? Remember, every extensions is a piece of code without QA, which slows the application down, is something you need to search for (And possibly compare to other similar extensions), need to update, etc.
http://www.rwxrwxrwx.net/desktop.png