[NEWS] Browser Speed Comparisons - Opera fastest - Not firefox

[Slackfumasta]

No no no NO NO no! You can't make me switch browsers AGAIN! I won't do it!

 

[Mr.Guvernment]

I like simplicity from a browser. I tried Opera for a while, but moved over to firefox after a few weeks. The only thing I miss is clicking on the far left of a maximed window in Opera, thus enabling/disabling the sidebar. In FF I have to ctrl-B (unless I'm missing something.)

I haven't tried Mozilla, but wouldn't Mozilla be a closer comparison to Opera than FF is, featurewise?

yes i would thinkso mozilla is the full bloated version - firefox is a lean trimmed down, not extra crap version.

 

[threeme2189]

never used opera so i cant reply...ff is gr8 though.

 

[sharkmont]

Studies are subject to inconsistencies and errors. Hypotheticals and actuals plague the performance world and the only real indicator of performance is opinion.

 

[Mr.Guvernment]

^^^ well yes and no, many tests can be run that are consistent and truthful in the results presented.

 

[schnikies79]

I used to use opera quite a bit. Gave it up and went with IE for a long time before chaning over to firefox. IE is the fastest of all three, in startup time and rendering speed. There are a few sites specifically that I have to wait an extra couple seconds for firefox to load over IE. It's not a big deal though, 2 seconds dosen't bother me. I still like firefox over IE.

Dayton

 

[Mr.Guvernment]

^^^ true - for me fifox just owns - good old tab'd browsing, nice having about 15-30 tabs open - especially here - i go to a secion "rhight click open in new tab" and when i am done opening all the threads i want to see, go back and start reading - i one had Firefox using 169mb of ram!!!!! i had so many tabs open and 2 instances of FireFox going.