On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:46:25AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Opera was segfaulting quite a bit, so I decided to try Firefox for a month.
Hmm. It really shouldn't be doing that. Since the 7.x series of Opera solidified, it's been extremely, well, solid ;-) It crashed on me 4 or 5 days ago, but those are very, very rare. I'm a little different than some, though, in that I do manually close my browser from time to time. (Mostly to erase those pesky session cookies) I'm running opera_7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt_en_i386.deb (yeah, I should grab their latest security update) on an up-to-date Debian Sid. I'm in general agreement with your notes -- the biggest thing in Opera's favor being its speed and configurability, while the adblock extension (and Sage!) rule the roost for Firefox. Recently, a few of us at NBLUG gave a little talk on our favorite Firefox extensions. Our notes are in this thread: http://nblug.org/pipermail/talk/2005-January/016545.html In particular, if you want extended tab functionality, you might look into: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en or http://hemiolapei.free.fr/divers/tabmix/tabmix.html.en > 4. Configuration is easier than Opera. But this is a double edged sword. > The reason why Firefox is easier to configure is that there's less to > configure. Things that are normally extensions on Firefox tend to be > built-in on Opera, making the Opera preferences menu more "busy". See about:config for a few more. I'm really terrible about taking notes, but I did some things that noticeably sped up Firefox's rendering, and more importantly to me, the speed of the UI itself (i.e. switching tabs) I generally got there by following hints from these two pages: http://codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/archive/2005/01/28/48720.aspx http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650 Forgive all the links in this post -- I hope people find them useful. -troy _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
