keepin IE in ur system s wasting of memory so better uninstall it.

I guess someone could write UserJS for Opera just as easily. :)

And Google really hates Opera. They are very Firefox-centric.

Those versions reaaaaally sucked… :))) You made me remember something bad.

>Did I mention it’s fast? When you go backwards, it fetches the page from the cache, rather than downloading it from the site like IE (and FF too, I think) does.

All modern browsers have decent caching. Opera is effective at that but it is something hard to reliably compare.

Features like paste-and-go, backward and forward navigation by how you click the left and right mouse buttons together, resuming broken downloads, movable tabs, the list goes on and on. I have been using Opera since the ultra-buggy 3.61 (circa 1998) and have always loved it, bugs and all.

Did I mention it’s fast? When you go backwards, it fetches the page from the cache, rather than downloading it from the site like IE (and FF too, I think) does.

Opera on my Pocket PC makes Pocket IE look a real joke. But then, I’ve replaced all of the built-in M$ apps with third-party/freeware ones and they ALL work much better.

800+Kb of text, 150+Kb of scripts, list with many thousands items.

Yep, hangs Opera but it’s hardly typical web page.

By the way your Google link has lots of Firefox CPU spikes in search results as well. :)

I’m using ad-blocker for 10 years.

>Could you please name pages where spikes can be reliably reproduced?

I didn’t record them, but Google can help

So, try http://iwhoilco.ru/ and don’t forget to save your session before.

I remember such issue because of very heavy flash banners once. But it was actually affecting all browsers pretty bad. :)

Could you please name pages where spikes can be reliably reproduced?

There are two simple things you can do:
1. Explore. Opera is like a big box of toys.
2. Ask. People often miss features that Opera actually has.

Bonus advice. :) Don’t expect Opera to make you cofee, expect it to be great browser.

No. There are some sites or pages where Opera gives 100% CPU usage till closing tab with that page or site.

Zach B
> between enhanced tab functions

Did you use Tab Mis Plus in Firefox?

> speed dial

There are at least two extensions for that: one called Speed Dial, and second Fast Dial

> and widgets

I don’t miss them because now I have extensions :)

Yeah, installing beta is really nice way ot improve browser stability. :) Opera is known to accumulate clutter with inplace upgrades without help of extremely unstable weekly builds.

>They depend on your browser usage, how many site you visit and what sites they are.

A lot. I only remember problems at sites that use heavily (to the point of stupid) ajaxed comments like Digg.

>Had you encountered “100% CPU”?
May refer to different problems, I do have occasional CPU spikes if loading few pages at the same time and high speed.

May be not strictly last year, and I installed some betas (one more thing that annoyed me with Opera was that some betas worked for me better than finals).

*tries very hard to remember regressions and instabilities*

They depend on your browser usage, how many site you visit and what sites they are.

Had you encountered “100% CPU”?

Must’ve been hard cause Opera had only 6 releases last year. :) 9.20 to 9.25

I guess you rollbacked each twice. :)

*tries very hard to remember regressions and instabilities*

I like extensions architecture, and I don’t need out-of-the-box unreliable mail-in-browser and torrent-downloads.

I prefer memory hogs to out-of-the-box bugs.

Widgets are just fancy toys, they just sucks and will do. They don’t have powers FF extensions have. I can’t remember any really useful widget.

I have no any tab freeze on my FF. But I can say that last year I rollbacked about 10 Opera releases/updates for regressions and instability. And that was finally enough for me.

Firefox has Mouse-gestures via extensions that are nothing but memory hogs and some IE based browsers

Does IE have them? And Firefox? Its extensions are only memory hogs. Does any of them match the out of the box functionality of Opera? I have used Firefox myself. Whole time, it gave me troubles. Extensions like Fasterfox slow it down. And anyway, does Firefox have cool widgets? I am sure Firefox supports them Via Extensions! and some IE-based browsers are supporting cooler widgets!

And my installation of Firefox had a cool feature that Opera can not and will never support. It was tab freeze. Tabs used to freeze in between and refused to close. It was a install-reinstall resistant feature that stayed across 5 installations. Opera still does not support it till now. I still miss it!