On 27/03/07, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
have more potential, I think KDE is a lot slicker and faster feeling right now; and from what little I've seen of either, the apps typically with KDE seem more to my liking as well. But on
We can argue preference all day, but in the end that doesn't mean much.
And as browsers go, firefox isn't bad; it works on more pages than anything except probably IE. But on some sites (like myspace.com), if left up on those pages for a few days, it eats memory like crazy; and is likely to crash before much longer. (I prefer the integrated mozilla or seamonkey myself, but they tend to have similar problems of course.)
I hear people complain about memory usage all the time with FireFox. I used FireFox every day for hours for my web development and for browsing as well. I can recall a bare handful of times where it was causing any problems, and almost always a plugin was involved (Flash, Acrobat, etc.).
By comparison, Opera doesn't work right on an occasional page here and there, but I can have 20+ tabs up on all sorts of pages for _weeks_ without problems and without it growing absurdly. If Opera could handle everything that Firefox can, I probably wouldn't use anything else. (FWIW, I have gotten Flash and Acrobat Reader plugins to work under Opera; and they finally fixed awhile back a problem where it wouldn't reparent Java applet windows.)
My problem with Opera is that it doesn't "feel" right. Notably, I don't like how its tabs work. I much prefer how FireFox's work.
thought was best when they made the choice. As for GNOME, I recognize there's been a big investment, in building skill and cooperation as well as in $$. And Opera isn't open source, which makes it up to its distributors rather than voluntary participants when it well get better in the areas it's still weak. Still, those aren't arguments on the merits of the choice so much as on the cost or risks of switching.
Yes, but they are deal breakers. Opera has its own fair share of bugs too, at least with FireFox we have the source to fix them. Not only that, I personally find most of the sites I use to be incompatible with Opera in one way or another (minor and major).
Would I like it if Opera were bundled? Sure, but as long as I use it so that it appears in server logs and summaries thereof, that's all I can do to encourage it to stick around, and it's usually not too difficult to install or update.
Sure, I'd use opera if bundled with Solaris, but I don't think it is an appropriate choice as a default browser. Maybe the "Wii" and other consumer platforms will increase the usage of Opera to a point where it will be a viable choice. For now, it remains an even smaller market share browser than FireFox on the desktop.
So I guess if one doesn't want to use the favored flavor of the day, one has to do some things oneself, or use a different distro than Sun's. Fine by me, I suppose.
People can easily install Opera, KDE, and other software if they so choose. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
