On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, David Blamire-Brown wrote:
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
I tried it just now. It took more than 1s to load, but otherwise it
seems normal.
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.
This one seems serious. It's a show stopper if it starts happening...
3) Javascript seems fairly broken in Opera - but that could be my fault
for not setting something up properly.
There's an extension for FF that blocks javaspoock but allows temporary
unblocking, on-the-fly, for the current site. This is one of the few
things I'll miss.
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.
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.
Regards,
Jorge
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