The Opera web browser is now free (via Slashdot). If they had done this a couple years ago, I might be using it as my full-time browser today.
Firefox seems increasingly buggy lately, so there’s still an outside chance that I might end up switching to Opera. The latest version of Camino is pretty tempting, too.
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I dunno about you, but I’ve given up and gone back to Safari.
Opera just isn’t a big deal to me, and browsers like Camino and Shiira are just Safaris wearing different suits that don’t fit properly. Firefox is kind of a no-other-real-choice option when I go back to Unix (I mean, really… Konqueror? Galleon? Netscape? Pfft. Please.), but under OSX it just doesn’t cut it. I’m a balance between disgusted and thoroughly disappointed — Fx was supposed to be a faster, lightweight Mozilla; suffice it to say that it isn’t. It’s just as slow and clunky as its’ older brother, but without all the features that would have been a viable excuse. (Case and point: on my Q41, Firefox takes between 10 and 120 seconds to open… Safari takes 3 seconds; 8 if the system is busy. Opening a couple dozen background tabs from links on a page in Forefox can freeze the whole system for minutes at a stretch; same operation in Safari is instantaneous — individual page loads notwithstanding in either example.)
What I find most… amusing… is that with little tweaking, Safari is as robust and annoyance-resistent as Firefox. That, and a few choice free OSX apps that do the job of some of the extensions I became reliant on make the insanely huge speed and response difference more than worth doing in all respects.
So, until D-Day comes (which you’ve pointed out as being some time in June) and I’m forced to re-evaluate what companies are still worth dealing with, I wash my hands of Firefox. The Mac version is just… pointless. :-)
interesting. i too have notcied firefox having more crashes than the average espresso addict lately, so maybe i will switch.
oddly though, a few months ago when i stated using firefox more, it was FASTER, by far, than safari. now i am not really sure.
opera you say? hmm. HMMM.
lemme know if i screwed up the trackback. i’m still learning.
Falsefridays, Firefox (running on WinXP) seemed to get slower for me as time went on as well. I think it slowed down as I added more and more extensions.
But the CSS opacity property doesn’t work in Opera! Boo to that. ;)
I dunno. Firefox crashes and acts weird from time to time on both my Linux and Windows machines, but I’ve been using Mozilla/Firefox for so many years that I can hardly imagine not using it. And I wouldn’t last a day without the Web Developer extension.
“But the CSS opacity property doesn’t work in Opera! Boo to that. ;)”
i know right?
wait, no i don’t. huh?