Safari 4 vs Firefox 3 vs Opera 9 – VERY Non Technical Review
Thursday, 18. June 2009, 19:35:34
That B**** is FAST! 
Safari 4 I mean ….seriously! I find Opera takes long to load in general but Safari’s load time is non-existent! Firefox 3 (with considerable plug-ins) loads pretty well but Opera takes twice as long 
Safari destroys them both.
Opera needs to watch it’s back cause the only thing that keeps me from switching is the way Opera handles Transfers in it’s own tab, the “Duplicate Tab” & “Paste & Go” features which I use extensively.
Another thing I love about Opera is the close knit community. If I have a problem I can contact Opera directly & get help in a second. I doubt that would happen with other browsers.
One quirk I dislike in Opera is the way it handles Bit-Torrent files. …because they have a built in Bit-Torrent program when I click a torrent file to download, Opera takes it by default. However I would rather use my own Program. There must be a way to turn that off but for the life of me I cannot find it.
I have a plug-in in Firefox 3 that gives me Speeddial (though not as much as in Opera) & Safari has a similar “Top Sites” interface. Yeah Opera came out with it first but in the end it doesn’t matter. Once it works on your particular browser. Therefore that feature is no longer an advantage for Opera.
Now this Acid3 Test I keep hearing about is a big thing for browsers. And apparently it’s HARD to pass because not even Firefox gets a perfect score. Opera fails…. & but Safari 4 gets the perfect score
I can’t begin to imagine how difficult making a browser & keeping it up to standard with current technology is, however it is a bit sad that for all Opera’s innovation (Speeddial, Unite etc.) that we don’t even get mentioned in the same sentence as the ‘Popular browsers’.
I remember hearing that the reason why some sites can’t load pages in Opera is not Opera’s fault but that the sites do not take the time to make themselves compatible with a browser of such small market share.
So I guess some problems will be resolved as Opera gains more recognition… but some (like the Acid3 test) they will have to resolve on their own.
Safari 4 I mean ….seriously! I find Opera takes long to load in general but Safari’s load time is non-existent! Firefox 3 (with considerable plug-ins) loads pretty well but Opera takes twice as long Safari destroys them both. Opera needs to watch it’s back cause the only thing that keeps me from switching is the way Opera handles Transfers in it’s own tab, the “Duplicate Tab” & “Paste & Go” features which I use extensively.
Another thing I love about Opera is the close knit community. If I have a problem I can contact Opera directly & get help in a second. I doubt that would happen with other browsers.
One quirk I dislike in Opera is the way it handles Bit-Torrent files. …because they have a built in Bit-Torrent program when I click a torrent file to download, Opera takes it by default. However I would rather use my own Program. There must be a way to turn that off but for the life of me I cannot find it.
I have a plug-in in Firefox 3 that gives me Speeddial (though not as much as in Opera) & Safari has a similar “Top Sites” interface. Yeah Opera came out with it first but in the end it doesn’t matter. Once it works on your particular browser. Therefore that feature is no longer an advantage for Opera.
Now this Acid3 Test I keep hearing about is a big thing for browsers. And apparently it’s HARD to pass because not even Firefox gets a perfect score. Opera fails…. & but Safari 4 gets the perfect score
I can’t begin to imagine how difficult making a browser & keeping it up to standard with current technology is, however it is a bit sad that for all Opera’s innovation (Speeddial, Unite etc.) that we don’t even get mentioned in the same sentence as the ‘Popular browsers’.
I remember hearing that the reason why some sites can’t load pages in Opera is not Opera’s fault but that the sites do not take the time to make themselves compatible with a browser of such small market share.
So I guess some problems will be resolved as Opera gains more recognition… but some (like the Acid3 test) they will have to resolve on their own.
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