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Opera Steps Up in German Feature Test
Wednesday, 5. October 2005, 15:22:51
an article comparing the features of three different browsers. If you can read German, be sure to check it out. And if you don't, a picture is worth a thousand words
Wow. Opera wins nearly in every category, that's very interesting. The article is also informative for me. I didn't know of mouse gestures before I read this article.
Well, i do agree that Opera is really good browser but i must to disagree that FF has only 3 points more than IE. I do realy think that IE is much, much, much worse than FF.
Btw. Why did they compare FF and not Mozilla which has mail, chat, composer?
SuSE UsER: remember they are 'only' looking at a dozen of useful User Interface enhancements that make browsing more comfortable, comparing those in three browsers. I felt they should have given Firefox 1 extra point for its popup blocker, which does only blocks 'unwanted' and can be configured per site. Apart from that, there is little to argue about the points they award.
Factual errors: - Opera has several more built-in panels. And both Opera and Firefox make it very easy to add webpages as extra panels. - Opera does allow you to change search engines. But it is not supported and hackish (editing search.ini), so I agree with the '1 point only' there
Study design problem: - They gave Firefox a point for 'Mouse gestures', because there is an extension available (I always wonder which of the available extensiosn to use, BTW...). But several other Opera features can added to Firefox with an extension as well (Sage RSS reader, advanced download manager, page zoom including images), and they didn't give Firefox points for those. So why for mouse gestures?
Opera is definitely a better browser than FF and far better than IE. But FF should receive a lot of points for extension support. Of course lot of FF extensions are already built in Opera. But there are quite a lot of handy extensions in FF. Those were left out of the article from CHIP.
Extensions can be a good thing or a bad thing. Having to install several separate extensions and maintain them yourself isn't always easy. Opera makes it more convenient by integrating these features directly into the program.
Nice article, but I do think a last comparison should have been done, where they take a look on FF's ability to use custom extensions, IE's not-so-secure toolbars and UserJS and custom toolbars in Opera. Critics from the "FF Clan" will probably point at that as a weakness about the article.
"The leading German technology news site" -- Not really. Chip is is cheap piece of wanna-be computer-magazine. iX and c't are closer to competent than chip or pcprofessional wil ever be.
Danny Boy, FCD # 5. October 2005, 16:15
Marcel # 5. October 2005, 16:30
HaJotKE # 5. October 2005, 17:13
OPERA SEARCH can be FULLY CUSTOMIZED, they didn't dig deep enough into it - there are even tools for that.
That's BTW a problem with all those tests, they are done sometimes a little bit superficially and OPERA is really complex!
Taken into account this SEARCH flaw, the correct result would be:
OPERA 20 points, FIREFOX 11 points and IE 9 points.
Looking even better!
M/B someone should point CHIP's nose to that?!
scipio # 5. October 2005, 17:49
pfenya # 5. October 2005, 17:54
Really interesting test btw.
They also forgot to mention that you can add Paneels.
maxsmac # 5. October 2005, 18:36
NOTE: I allmost forgot... you need an OPERA browser for this!
PS: There might be a problem with cookies on this forum because I was asked to logon twice!
SuSE UsER # 5. October 2005, 19:06
Btw. Why did they compare FF and not Mozilla which has mail, chat, composer?
Jeremy Cook # 5. October 2005, 20:36
http://www.betanews.com/article/Opera_Browser_Downloads_Surging/1128538326
Rijk # 5. October 2005, 21:14
Factual errors:
- Opera has several more built-in panels. And both Opera and Firefox make it very easy to add webpages as extra panels.
- Opera does allow you to change search engines. But it is not supported and hackish (editing search.ini), so I agree with the '1 point only' there
Study design problem:
- They gave Firefox a point for 'Mouse gestures', because there is an extension available (I always wonder which of the available extensiosn to use, BTW...). But several other Opera features can added to Firefox with an extension as well (Sage RSS reader, advanced download manager, page zoom including images), and they didn't give Firefox points for those. So why for mouse gestures?
reincarnut # 5. October 2005, 21:27
bobby # 6. October 2005, 03:52
MPIB # 6. October 2005, 12:38
kittu # 6. October 2005, 18:46
Haavard # 7. October 2005, 13:42
pincopallino # 9. October 2005, 07:20
Martin Strand # 9. October 2005, 15:27
TheMajor # 10. October 2005, 11:55
Ivan Minic # 11. October 2005, 04:57
rudump # 11. October 2005, 14:59
it is a best browser software that i have never see.
Antigotchie # 11. October 2005, 19:08
greetz from germany :-)
Chris Best # 13. October 2005, 01:58
imforumman # 13. October 2005, 08:03
diavolos # 13. October 2005, 20:11
haitham # 15. October 2005, 19:57
ameerirshad # 18. October 2005, 21:53
qicaispace # 24. June 2006, 14:55
it is a best browser software that i have never see.