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Opera Steps Up in German Feature Test

By brianj. 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

Comments

Kudos! Opera's finally getting the recognition it deserves!

By Heathen Dan, # 5. October 2005, 16:15:00

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.

By shran, # 5. October 2005, 16:30:50

Nice, but there is an ERROR!

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?!

By HaJotKE, # 5. October 2005, 17:13:44

Is my German that bad or isn't there a link to a next page or the full article?

By scipio, # 5. October 2005, 17:49:45

@scipio: There is no full article, they did it with pictures only. So the link to the pictures is the one to the test.

Really interesting test btw.
They also forgot to mention that you can add Paneels.

By pfenya, # 5. October 2005, 17:54:33

TIP: Select the text from the article and righ-clik on the selection. Click on the Translate and select German to English. Many 10x to lycoszone.

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!

By maxsmac, # 5. October 2005, 18:36:58

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?

By SuSE UsER, # 5. October 2005, 19:06:03

This is great news-also have a look at this story on BetaNews talking about the surge in Opera downloads since 8.5 was released.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Opera_Browser_Downloads_Surging/1128538326

By Jezza, # 5. October 2005, 20:36:49

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?

By Rijk, # 5. October 2005, 21:14:51

well, these pictures are worth more than 3 million downloads... opera rules!

By reincarnut, # 5. October 2005, 21:27:02

awesome article, opera takeover of the world is immenent

By bmc, # 6. October 2005, 03:52:58

Believe me, CHIP online is not "The leading German technology news site" Far from it!

By MPIB, # 6. October 2005, 12:38:20

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.

By kitt, # 6. October 2005, 18:46:32

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.

By haavard, # 7. October 2005, 13:42:48

Once the development of M2 comes to its final stage, Opera will have no rival!

By pincopallino, # 9. October 2005, 07:20:45

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.

By marstr2, # 9. October 2005, 15:27:51

You can also add mouse gestures to IE.

By TheMajor, # 10. October 2005, 11:55:41

Burn baby, burn!

By SerbianFighter, # 11. October 2005, 04:57:48

opera is good

it is a best browser software that i have never see.

By rudump, # 11. October 2005, 14:59:37

i think its great! now its official opera is the best!!!
greetz from germany :-)

By Antigotchie, # 11. October 2005, 19:08:16

aww, hehe, look at opera up there! with a little kings crown! woo! go opera! we showed them who is king of the internet!

By VaioLust, # 13. October 2005, 01:58:47

"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.

By imforumman, # 13. October 2005, 08:03:06