Another vote for Opera here. I'm running 9.02 at home. A few observations from my set-up, although they could be as much to do me having not got something else in my configuration right ...
And another strong Opera vote here :-)
1) This version of Opera really seems to struggle with "heavy" pages. The whole app slows down, no response to clicks etc, until the page has fully rendered. Example of affected page: http://funds.ft.com/funds/searchFund.do?symb=AQSTG&type=F1 2) Opera infrequently causes my system to hang completely. I can't ctrl +alt+F1 to a terminal screen, I can ctrl+alt+backspace to kill X, I can't do anything. It's a hard reboot of the box. Admittedly I'm slightly impatient, but I give it 10 secs before hitting reset, sometimes longer. I can't categorically state that it's Opera, but I've a very strong suspicion. Especially given that I basically use an xterm, sylpheed and opera 95% of the time.
Not had these issues ....... sorry.
3) Javascript seems fairly broken in Opera - but that could be my fault for not setting something up properly.
JS works great here - perhaps reemerge everything?
4) Some pages just don't render properly in Opera and I have occasion to fall back to firefox. As another poster said, it's often badly designed banking sites.
Yep ..... So I changed banks (earlier bank wanted I.E.). I tell them that if they want my business, they'll get their site to work on Linux/Opera. Present bank got it to work fine (not perfect rendition - but functional).
5) Overall though, IMO Opera is a nicer browser to use than firefox. Tabbed browsing is implemented in a more effective fashion. Keyboard shortcuts are lovely, eg F2 to bring a dialog for typing a URL, which can be configured to fire up a new tab is very nice. Shift+F2 allows you to have a one key shortcut for favourite bookmarks (again firing up a new tab). Sidebar is far more effective in Opera. Obviously personal preference, but I much prefer it.
IMHO, Opera loads MUCH faster, and surfs much faster as well. ALSO, it is easy to put Opera in a Chroot Jail; FF is a PITA to put into a jail.
Final note is that most FF users seem to have never tried Opera; Most Opera users have tried FF - gotten it to work adequately - and chosen Opera.
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