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piratePenguin · « **on:** 21 June 2006, 09:03 »

Aloone_Jonez would not be happy to learn that the Windows download is 4.6 MB.
That's fucking FOUR FLOPPY DISKS WTF??? :p

http://www.opera.com

I'm using it now - but until it's free it will never take Firefox's place on my machine.

The widgets are a feature I can't see myself wanting, but they look like crap on my system anyhow (they prob look better on windows):
http://piratepenguin.is-a-geek.com/~declan/crap/operawidgets.png

EDIT: selecting lines/paragraphs is going to be messy since double clicking text brings up that right-click menu :o

Well, I'm keeping it, just for testing.

Aloone_Jonez · « **Reply #1 on:** 21 June 2006, 09:47 »

I've tried the beta and I liked it, I've been waiting for this of awhile, I'll download it when I get home.

Annorax · « **Reply #2 on:** 21 June 2006, 09:54 »

Quote from: piratePenguin

I'm using it now - but until it's free it will never take Firefox's place on my machine.

Opera is free, and has been since version 8.5.

They are still charging for Opera on non-mainstream platforms like Windows Mobile/PocketPC, cell phones, Nintendo DS*... but not Linux, FreeBSD, Mac, etc.

*not quite released yet, but date and price have been announced in Japan

piratePenguin · « **Reply #3 on:** 21 June 2006, 09:57 »

Quote from: Annorax

Opera is free, and has been since version 8.5.

They are still charging for Opera on non-mainstream platforms like Windows Mobile, cell phones, Nintendo DS*...

*not quite released yet, but date and price have been announced in Japan

Hehe... I meant free as in freedom

I was gonna specify that, but I thought you'd know me by now

I'm gonna do a bit of a memory usage comparison between FF and Opera now... Even though I don't believe NUMBERS to be all that important (using extra memory for cache is generally good)

piratePenguin · « **Reply #4 on:** 21 June 2006, 10:28 »

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Hehe... I meant free as in freedom
I was gonna specify that, but I thought you'd know me by now

I'm gonna do a bit of a memory usage comparison between FF and Opera now... Even though I don't believe NUMBERS to be all that important (using extra memory for cache is generally good)

Er, jaysus.

I set them to the same homepage, started them. FF started faster, perhaps because Opera had to load the Qt libraries when GTK was already loaded for FF.

Opera was using something like 35 Mib virtual memory and FF was using just over 70 (I was shocked). so I opened 4 tabs - same pages in each browser and FF was using /less/ memory than Opera at this stage:
http://piratepenguin.is-a-geek.com/~declan/crap/operaVff/omgFFwins.png

And then.... I was just looking at the system monitor for about a minute and Opera's RAM usage went down, and then it went down again... WTF?
It dropped from 122 to 82 :scared:

So er - probably Opera is better with the numbers, just like I expected.

pofnlice · « **Reply #5 on:** 21 June 2006, 15:35 »

[SIZE=24]HOW GAY IS THAT ANIMATION!!![/size]

pofnlice · « **Reply #6 on:** 21 June 2006, 15:48 »

wut...I can't edit my own post even when it's the last one???

edit...sure I can...for some reason I wasn't seeing it in Opera9...It's there now though...

anyway...

I just instsalled it for shits and giggles...

It automatically imports your bookmarks...which is a good start for me since firefoxe seemed a little buggy in that aspect and kept crashing when I tried...

Other than that, it's no faster, no slower...

It's just a different lay out. I will delve deeper into the depths of OPERA 9 to see what I can destroy...err find out.

H_TeXMeX_H · « **Reply #7 on:** 21 June 2006, 19:10 »

http://www.opera.com/

... the new YMCA crew ?

Aloone_Jonez · « **Reply #8 on:** 21 June 2006, 19:49 »

I find this interesting because I've found that Opera starts faster than Firefox on Windows but slower on Linux, however it renders faster than Firefox under Linux but I haven't noticed much difference under Windows. This was all my experiance with Opera 8.5x I'm about to test 9 now, I'll let you know what I think.

I don't consider the start up speed to be very important since you only start it once, I think the rendering speed is more critical.

toadlife · « **Reply #9 on:** 21 June 2006, 20:36 »

Quote from: pofnlice

[size=24]HOW GAY IS THAT ANIMATION!!![/size]

Crap. My lame-o-meter exploded when I viewed that animation. I'll have to get a new one now.

piratePenguin · « **Reply #10 on:** 21 June 2006, 20:40 »

lol, you should all uninstall your crappy non-free flash players - all I see is an image.

Calum · « **Reply #11 on:** 22 June 2006, 17:42 »

i used to champion opera on this site, years ago when mozilla was still way below version 1.0, and that was because opera was better than mozilla back then, simple as that. the only problem was the banner adverts. Now, firefox has almost every feature opera has that you would want, when you have the prefbar installed anyway, and it is more useable, more stable and also it is Free. opera has basically stood still for years (mostly) while mozilla (firefox, bon echo, whatever it's called now) has really risen from its own ashes at least once since then.

ReggieMicheals · « **Reply #12 on:** 22 June 2006, 18:16 »

I've just downloaded it. Seems to be better. Now I can load a YTMND without a damn quicktime box in the corner.

piratePenguin · « **Reply #13 on:** 23 June 2006, 02:08 »

oh man, ohman ohman ohman.
I can't believe what I just tried, worked.

I setup a new user account on my machine, "test", logged in, started Opera - it setup a wonderful fresh profile for me in /home/test/.opera. This included a cookies4.dat file, which would store any cookies for me.

In Firefox, cookies are stored in a cookies.txt file. This file has very strict permissions - nobody can view it except the owner. This is for a very good reason - if anyone else can read it, they can copy it and they'll know all your cookies.

And, well, if you're me, that means they'll be able to log into my microsuck forums account and well, make this post. I'm logged in as test now, I coppied the cookies4.dat file from /home/declan/.opera/cookies4.dat into /home/test/.opera and when I came to microsuck.com/forums I was already logged in - didn't need to enter a password!

Badbad Opera.

Are the permissions fucked up like this on Windows too?

EDIT: konq users are safe - I can't access /home/declan/.kde atall - smart people those KDE devs.

EDIT:

Quote from: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/community/columns/security/essays/vulnrbl.mspx?mfr=true

A security vulnerability is a flaw in a product that makes it infeasible

H_TeXMeX_H · « **Reply #14 on:** 23 June 2006, 04:04 »

Interesting ... did you try this with FF too ? or just Konqueror ...

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The widgets are a feature I can't see myself wanting, but they look like crap on my system anyhow (they prob look better on windows): http://piratepenguin.is-a-geek.com/~declan/crap/operawidgets.png EDIT: selecting lines/paragraphs is going to be messy since double clicking text brings up that right-click menu :o Well, I'm keeping it, just for testing. « Last Edit: 21 June 2006, 09:47 by piratePenguin » Logged "What you share with the world is what it keeps of you." - Noah And The Whale: Give a little love a poem by my computer, Macintosh Vigilante Macintosh amends a damned around the requested typewriter. Macintosh urges a scarce design. Macintosh postulates an autobiography. Macintosh tolls the solo variant. Why does a winter audience delay macintosh? The maker tosses macintosh. Beneath female suffers a double scum. How will a rat cube the heavier cricket? Macintosh calls a method. Can macintosh nest opposite the headache? Macintosh ties the wrong fairy. When can macintosh stem the land gang? Female aborts underneath macintosh. Inside macintosh waffles female. Next to macintosh worries a well. Aloone_Jonez Administrator Posts: 4,083 Kudos: 954 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #1 on: 21 June 2006, 09:47 » I've tried the beta and I liked it, I've been waiting for this of awhile, I'll download it when I get home. Logged This is not a Windows help forum, however please do feel free to sign up and agree or disagree with our views on Microsoft. Oh and FUCKMicrosoft! :fu: Annorax Global Moderator Posts: 694 Kudos: 457 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #2 on: 21 June 2006, 09:54 » Quote from: piratePenguin I'm using it now - but until it's free it will never take Firefox's place on my machine. Opera is free, and has been since version 8.5. They are still charging for Opera on non-mainstream platforms like Windows Mobile/PocketPC, cell phones, Nintendo DS... but not Linux, FreeBSD, Mac, etc. not quite released yet, but date and price have been announced in Japan Logged Quote from: "bash.org" <3M> ok guys i've finally got my windows me machine up and running again if everything seems to be running well on windows me you've obviously overlooked something.... <3M> who is general failure and why is he reading my hard disc somehow, "i told you so" doesn't quite say it piratePenguin VIP Posts: 3,025 Kudos: 775 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #3 on: 21 June 2006, 09:57 » Quote from: Annorax Opera is free, and has been since version 8.5. They are still charging for Opera on non-mainstream platforms like Windows Mobile, cell phones, Nintendo DS... not quite released yet, but date and price have been announced in Japan Hehe... I meant free as in freedom I was gonna specify that, but I thought you'd know me by now I'm gonna do a bit of a memory usage comparison between FF and Opera now... Even though I don't believe NUMBERS to be all that important (using extra memory for cache is generally good) Logged "What you share with the world is what it keeps of you." - Noah And The Whale: Give a little love a poem by my computer, Macintosh Vigilante Macintosh amends a damned around the requested typewriter. Macintosh urges a scarce design. Macintosh postulates an autobiography. Macintosh tolls the solo variant. Why does a winter audience delay macintosh? The maker tosses macintosh. Beneath female suffers a double scum. How will a rat cube the heavier cricket? Macintosh calls a method. Can macintosh nest opposite the headache? Macintosh ties the wrong fairy. When can macintosh stem the land gang? Female aborts underneath macintosh. Inside macintosh waffles female. Next to macintosh worries a well. piratePenguin VIP Posts: 3,025 Kudos: 775 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #4 on: 21 June 2006, 10:28 » Quote from: piratePenguin Hehe... I meant free as in freedom I was gonna specify that, but I thought you'd know me by now I'm gonna do a bit of a memory usage comparison between FF and Opera now... Even though I don't believe NUMBERS to be all that important (using extra memory for cache is generally good) Er, jaysus. I set them to the same homepage, started them. FF started faster, perhaps because Opera had to load the Qt libraries when GTK was already loaded for FF. Opera was using something like 35 Mib virtual memory and FF was using just over 70 (I was shocked). so I opened 4 tabs - same pages in each browser and FF was using /less/ memory than Opera at this stage: http://piratepenguin.is-a-geek.com/~declan/crap/operaVff/omgFFwins.png And then.... I was just looking at the system monitor for about a minute and Opera's RAM usage went down, and then it went down again... WTF? It dropped from 122 to 82 :scared: So er - probably Opera is better with the numbers, just like I expected. Logged "What you share with the world is what it keeps of you." - Noah And The Whale: Give a little love a poem by my computer, Macintosh Vigilante Macintosh amends a damned around the requested typewriter. Macintosh urges a scarce design. Macintosh postulates an autobiography. Macintosh tolls the solo variant. Why does a winter audience delay macintosh? The maker tosses macintosh. Beneath female suffers a double scum. How will a rat cube the heavier cricket? Macintosh calls a method. Can macintosh nest opposite the headache? Macintosh ties the wrong fairy. When can macintosh stem the land gang? Female aborts underneath macintosh. Inside macintosh waffles female. Next to macintosh worries a well. pofnlice Member Posts: 999 Kudos: 650 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #5 on: 21 June 2006, 15:35 » [SIZE=24]HOW GAY IS THAT ANIMATION!!![/size] Logged Quote from: "Orethrius" After all, running Windows without a decent anti-virus is like walking through a Red Light District after eating five metric tonnes of Viagra. pofnlice Member Posts: 999 Kudos: 650 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #6 on: 21 June 2006, 15:48 » wut...I can't edit my own post even when it's the last one??? edit...sure I can...for some reason I wasn't seeing it in Opera9...It's there now though... anyway... I just instsalled it for shits and giggles... It automatically imports your bookmarks...which is a good start for me since firefoxe seemed a little buggy in that aspect and kept crashing when I tried... Other than that, it's no faster, no slower... It's just a different lay out. I will delve deeper into the depths of OPERA 9 to see what I can destroy...err find out. Logged Quote from: "Orethrius" After all, running Windows without a decent anti-virus is like walking through a Red Light District after eating five metric tonnes of Viagra. H_TeXMeX_H Member Posts: 1,988 Kudos: 494 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #7 on: 21 June 2006, 19:10 » http://www.opera.com/ ... the new YMCA crew ? Logged Aloone_Jonez Administrator Posts: 4,083 Kudos: 954 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #8 on: 21 June 2006, 19:49 » I find this interesting because I've found that Opera starts faster than Firefox on Windows but slower on Linux, however it renders faster than Firefox under Linux but I haven't noticed much difference under Windows. This was all my experiance with Opera 8.5x I'm about to test 9 now, I'll let you know what I think. I don't consider the start up speed to be very important since you only start it once, I think the rendering speed is more critical. Logged This is not a Windows help forum, however please do feel free to sign up and agree or disagree with our views on Microsoft. Oh and FUCKMicrosoft! :fu: toadlife Member Posts: 730 Kudos: 376 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #9 on: 21 June 2006, 20:36 » Quote from: pofnlice [size=24]HOW GAY IS THAT ANIMATION!!![/size] Crap. My lame-o-meter exploded when I viewed that animation. I'll have to get a new one now. Logged piratePenguin VIP Posts: 3,025 Kudos: 775 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #10 on: 21 June 2006, 20:40 » lol, you should all uninstall your crappy non-free flash players - all I see is an image. Logged "What you share with the world is what it keeps of you." - Noah And The Whale: Give a little love a poem by my computer, Macintosh Vigilante Macintosh amends a damned around the requested typewriter. Macintosh urges a scarce design. Macintosh postulates an autobiography. Macintosh tolls the solo variant. Why does a winter audience delay macintosh? The maker tosses macintosh. Beneath female suffers a double scum. How will a rat cube the heavier cricket? Macintosh calls a method. Can macintosh nest opposite the headache? Macintosh ties the wrong fairy. When can macintosh stem the land gang? Female aborts underneath macintosh. Inside macintosh waffles female. Next to macintosh worries a well. Calum Global Moderator Posts: 7,812 Kudos: 1000 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #11 on: 22 June 2006, 17:42 » i used to champion opera on this site, years ago when mozilla was still way below version 1.0, and that was because opera was better than mozilla back then, simple as that. the only problem was the banner adverts. Now, firefox has almost every feature opera has that you would want, when you have the prefbar installed anyway, and it is more useable, more stable and also it is Free. opera has basically stood still for years (mostly) while mozilla (firefox, bon echo, whatever it's called now) has really risen from its own ashes at least once since then. Logged visit these websites and make yourself happy forever: It's my music! \| My music on MySpace \| Integrational Polytheism ReggieMicheals Member Posts: 186 Kudos: 228 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #12 on: 22 June 2006, 18:16 » I've just downloaded it. Seems to be better. Now I can load a YTMND without a damn quicktime box in the corner. Logged Operating System Advocacy. I've given up on the Microsuck project, as well as any of the minisite spinoffs. You can still view the new beta site, though! piratePenguin VIP Posts: 3,025 Kudos: 775 Re: opera 9 is out « Reply #13 on: 23 June 2006, 02:08 » oh man, ohman ohman ohman. I can't believe what I just tried, worked. I setup a new user account on my machine, "test", logged in, started Opera - it setup a wonderful fresh profile for me in /home/test/.opera. This included a cookies4.dat file, which would store any cookies for me. In Firefox, cookies are stored in a cookies.txt file. This file has very strict permissions - nobody can view it except the owner. This is for a very good reason - if anyone else can read it, they can copy it and they'll know all your cookies. And, well, if you're me, that means they'll be able to log into my microsuck forums account and well, make this post. I'm logged in as test now, I coppied the cookies4.dat file from /home/declan/.opera/cookies4.dat into /home/test/.opera and when I came to microsuck.com/forums I was already logged in - didn't need to enter a password! Badbad Opera. Are the permissions fucked up like this on Windows too? EDIT: konq users are safe - I can't access /home/declan/.kde atall - smart people those KDE devs. EDIT: Quote from: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/community/columns/security/essays/vulnrbl.mspx?mfr=true A security vulnerability is a flaw in a product that makes it infeasible « Last Edit: 23 June 2006, 17:03 by piratePenguin » Logged "What you share with the world is what it keeps of you." - Noah And The Whale: Give a little love a poem by my computer, Macintosh Vigilante Macintosh amends a damned around the requested typewriter. Macintosh urges a scarce design. Macintosh postulates an autobiography. Macintosh tolls the solo variant. Why does a winter audience delay macintosh? The maker tosses macintosh. Beneath female suffers a double scum. How will a rat cube the heavier cricket? Macintosh calls a method. Can macintosh nest opposite the headache? Macintosh ties the wrong fairy. When can macintosh stem the land gang? Female aborts underneath macintosh. 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