Wednesday, 9. July 2008, 04:44:45
Well I decided to try out FF3 to see if it was better than FF2. I can easily say it is, seems faster and such, though it doesn't seem as fast as Opera.
Personally I really enjoy Opera's functionality, so I decided to try and make FF3 act kinda like Opera. I guess one of the good points is that you can do that, change things up and junk.
It took about 5 'extensions' to make it feel right to me. Here's the list:
AdBlock Plus - Gives the ability to block unwanted content.
All-in-One Sidebar - Adds the quick-click sidebar functionality.
Fast Dial - Basically Opera's Speed Dial, but with more options.
FireGestures - Like Opera's gestures but again with more options.
Undo Closed Tabs Button - Not included with FF for some reason.
Looking through the popular 'extensions' I found these ones:
DownloadThemAll! - Opera almost has this functionality, but this is so much easier.
NoScript - Turns off scripts for all sites and then you allow sites you trust.
PicLens - Kinda neat but gimmicky GUI thing for looking at pictures on the web.
Yet Another Smooth Scrolling - Gives options for smooth scrolling.
All in all, I'm both impressed and unimpressed. Part of me doesn't like it because w/o extensions the browser is just barren and empty. Opera is a full featured web browser, email client, IRC client, and Torrent manager. I admit it's sometimes hard/impossible to add things to Opera, but it's probably better for security and privacy anyways.
So FF has functionality, but Opera has performance & security. I'm kinda torn.
Wednesday, 9. May 2007, 11:19:58
Just fully updated my information, my blod design and even added in a wii code.
Now will anyone read my blog? o.o;
Monday, 12. March 2007, 13:11:10
It's only been, what, 2 years since my last post? ^_^; Well I'll try to post more, but honestly I'm quite happy with 9.1 and am just looking forward to 10, hopefully with MNG and JP2 support (as well as many other things).
Friday, 23. June 2006, 07:27:23
security, ftw
It's cool that Securna have no issues with Opera 8.x
Technically that means that Opera is the most secure browser out there. With less issues to begin with, of which all of the problems have been addressed, and all of the issues have been of a lower critical level than Firefox or IE.
We win.
Friday, 17. March 2006, 23:14:11
911
Friday, 28. October 2005, 09:20:36
bugs
I guess I'm out of the current 9.0 testing. I changed an option and it messed up the GUI and such. So I'm just gunna wait for the Beta.
And yes I reported it, but no one else had the problem. *shrugs* I guess I must have broken it somehow by changing an option you can change using ctrl+F12. If that's possible.
Tuesday, 11. October 2005, 08:21:58
wishful thinking
A nice thing that Opera could try is putting out some tools that make things for you. Like a skin maker, a userjs maker/editor, etc. Just a thought.
Tuesday, 27. September 2005, 10:18:16
browsers, security
Opera 8.x
Advisories: 8
Highest Criticality: Moderate
Impact: Spoofing, Cross Site Scripting, Security Bypass.
Status: 100% patched
Firefox 1.x
Advisories: 24
Highest Criticality: Extreme
Impact: System access, DoS, Privilege escalation, Exposure sensitive info, Exposure system info, Manipulation of data, Spoofing, Cross Site Scripting, Security bypass, Hijacking.
Status: 83% patched
Internet Explorer 6.x
Advisories: 86
Highest Criticality: Extreme
Impact: System access, DoS, Exposure sensitive info, Exposure system info, Manipulation of data, Spoofing, Cross Site Scripting, Security bypass, Hijacking.
Status: 56% patched
Tuesday, 27. September 2005, 10:06:05
opera, free, downloads, bandwidth
Wow, that's absolutely nuts! How in the world are they paying for all that bandwidth?!
2,400,000 (downloads) x 3,689 (Kbytes) = 8,853,600,000 (8.8TB!!!)
I've gotten a few to try the software (now it has no banner, they don't have an excuse not to try it). And quite a few of them are sticking with Opera thanks to it's feature rich browser.
Keep it up Opera Software!
Sunday, 25. September 2005, 08:24:37
Finally.. dropping Verizon and their false 1500/256 service (only getting 500/100). Gotta pay about 2x as much, but holy moley, ~5x more upload alone! ^_^
Monday, 2. May 2005, 07:31:59
Been playin' around with it for a while now, and have only found one real problem with it. So instead of ranting and raving about how great it is (because it is great), I'll just post about the one (big) problem I found, which I've posted here on the boards:
http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=89059Hopefully such things will be fixed in the next release.
Thursday, 20. January 2005, 09:39:28
IE:
http://secunia.com/product/11/O:
http://secunia.com/product/761/FF:
http://secunia.com/product/4227/IE Fix status:33% Unpatched
48% Vendor Patch
2% Vendor Workaround
17% Partial Fix
O Fix status:13% Unpatched
88% Vendor Patch
0% Vendor Workaround
0% Partial Fix
FF Fix status:83% Unpatched
0% Vendor Patch
0% Vendor Workaround
17% Partial Fix
IE Criticality:15% Extremely
25% Highly
25% Moderately
13% Less
22% Not
O Criticality:3% Extremely
9% Highly
38% Moderately
34% Less
16% Not
FF Criticality:0% Extremely
0% Highly
17% Moderately
67% Less
17% Not
Thursday, 20. January 2005, 09:33:38
Hello world!
Current stats by SiSoftware Sandra:
Processor
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
Speed : 1.92GHz
Model Number : 2600 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR2785 (estimated)
Type : Standard
L2 On-board Cache : 512kB ECC Synchronous Write-Back (16-way, 64 byte line size)
Mainboard
Bus(es) : AGP PCI USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
MP Support : No
MP APIC : No
System BIOS : Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1009
System : ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X-E
Mainboard : ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X-E
Total Memory : 511MB DDR-SDRAM
Chipset 1
Model : ASUSTeK Computer Inc nForce2 AGP Controller
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 167MHz (334MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 512MB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 167MHz (334MHz data rate)
Video System
Monitor/Panel : Plug and Play Monitor
Adapter : RADEON 9800 PRO
Adapter : RADEON 9800 PRO - Secondary
Physical Storage Devices
Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive
Hard Disk : WDC WD600BB-75CCB0
CD-ROM/DVD : PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4012A (CD 40X Rd, 40X Wr)
Logical Storage Devices
1.44MB 3.5" (A:) : N/A
Hard Disk (C:) : 9.8GB (3.9GB, 40% Free) (NTFS)
Hard Disk (D:) : 46.1GB (30.0GB, 65% Free) (NTFS)
Peripherals
Serial/Parallel Port(s) : 2 COM / 1 LPT
USB Controller/Hub : Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
FireWire/1394 Controller/Hub : OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Keyboard : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse : Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical
Human Interface : Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical
MultiMedia Device(s)
Device : MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
Device : Standard Game Port
Device : NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface
Device : NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) MCP Audio Processing Unit
Printers and Faxes
Model : hp deskjet 845c
Power Management
AC Line Status : On-Line
Operating System(s)
Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Professional (Win32 x86/IA32) 5.01.2600 (Service Pack 2)
Network Services
Adapter : Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Opera Information by SiSoftware Sandra:
Process Information
Name : opera.exe
File Name : opera.exe
Priority : Normal
Expected Windows Version : 4.00
Number of Threads : 9
Creation Date : Thursday, January 20, 2005
Creation Time : 8:20:15 AM
GDI Objects Used : 809
User Objects Used : 109
Process/Global Count : 65535 / 65535
Memory Used : 164kB
File Information
File Type : Application
Operating System(s) : 32-bit Windows
File Description : Opera Internet Browser
File Version : 7.60.7321
Product Description : Opera Internet Browser
Product Version : 7.00
Manufacturer : Opera Software
Copyright : Copyright © Opera Software 1995-2004
File Size : 77kB
File Date : Monday, December 06, 2004
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