![]() MSIE and Netzilla simply aren’t in the same league. If you are always in a hurry, Opera is the perfect browser for you. Opera displays pages faster than any other graphical browser I have ever used, period. Speed has been Opera’s big boast from the start. (I am patting Opera on its cute little head and hoping this behavior keeps up. I haven’t had to use that kill button on Opera so far. I used that button many times every day on Netscape 4.x because of its frequent freeze-ups. Mandrake was nice enough to put a handy “kill” button right on your desktop. Netscape 4.x, the first graphical Linux browser I used, was so bad that I first fell in love with Mandrake because of it. I’m sure it will sooner or later, because all browsers seem to crash eventually Microsoft IE 5.x, for example, seems to be barf regularly on the current Dilbertized Google, according to friends who haven’t yet distanced themselves from The Redmond Monopolist. I work more than enough hours without having bad code take even more minutes away from me when, as they say, I’d rather be sailing, which I truly would, especially on a day like today, with lovely blue skies and a perfect breeze here on the Florida Gulf Coast. Browser crashes irritate me immensely, because they cost me work time. I don’t know about you, but I hate programs that crash. ![]() As for the lack of email, I have Kmail, right? So to the Opera we go, using your basic Mandrake/KDE “click on the file in the home directory” moron-style two-second install. ![]() This is not a totally fair comparison, because full versions of Netscape/Mozilla - let’s call this pair Netzilla for short - include an email program and a bunch of other stuff Opera doesn’t have, but Opera is still tiny compared to most other browsers. I had Opera 6 (beta) already as part of my Mandrake 8.2 install, so instead of messing with Mozilla this week, I decided to upgrade to the final version of Opera 6.0 for Linux to see how far Opera had progressed since I last tried it.Īs is rather well-known by now, Opera is a tiny download compared to Mozilla or Netscape, coming in at around 3 MB for the RPM. ![]() I was fine and stable with 0.9.8, but “upgraded” to one of the 1.0 release candidates only to be rewarded (if that’s the right word) with frequent crashes. I’m writing this review partially because I lost my most recent game of Mozilla Roulette, which is what I call the act of downloading and installing the latest Mozilla. ![]()
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