hello all,
i've always liked opera, i install it on all windows boxes i need
to touch. lately though, there have been problems with the
linux versions. the version before the current one would not
display some pages. that was probably due to microsoft specific
javascript on those pages... i didn't mind too much.
the current linux version though, 7.11, is unstable when i have
a lot of windows open. when i get to around 16 or more windows
open (all opened with open in background with the intention of
eventually getting to the article and reading it :), opera will often
crash.
restarting opera gives me the option to load the pages that were
loaded before it crashed (most of the time this works fine, sometimes
some of the last pages are not loaded, but i can work around that).
this is getting to be a pain though. recently, i would start it it,
it would reload all those pages, then it would crash immediately.
when i would be done with a page and would close it, it would
crash immediately, and so on for every page i tried to close.
finally i had it close all pages and it became stable.
i've been testing MozillaFirebird. it's a nice, small, fast browser
and is rapidly becoming a favorite. but it's missing a few things
i like:
1. reload pages that were loaded when it crashed or was
killed.
2. remember the URL when it fails to get the page. sometimes
i'm bandwidth challenged and when i try to download
a page and it can't do it (timeout or DNS error or something),
then the address textbox just says about:blank instead of
the URL i was trying to get :).
what browsers should i try that have stability, tabbed browsing,
open in background, remember and reload all open documents
last time, and remember the URL when the browser can't
get the page? :).
hmmm, time to reinstall galeon and mozilla i guess.
on the other hand, if someone tells me that they can keep a gazillion
pages open in opera for linux version 7.11 and it's stable as a rock
then i may need to look at what libraries i've got, or upgrade to
mandrake 9.1 or something :).
thanks for any suggestions. discussion would be interesting too.
tiger
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