Maybe - maybe - moving to Firefox after years of Opera

Lysander

Lysander

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I don't really want to do this since I've been using Opera since 2004. I've just had a go with Firefox and it's really sleek and I love the add-ons.

My main reason for switching is that Opera has problems with too many websites. I've lost count of the amount of times a website hasn't been displayed properly or can't be at all. As well as that, Opera has always had a problem with Gmail: sometimes the formatting of a sent message is wrong or it gets stuck in a loop trying to log out.

Any way around these problems? Otherwise I shall have to join the FF throng.
 
I don't see why you can't use two browsers?

If you like Opera that much then why move to FF? Why not just use FF or IE for the sites that Opera have a problem with?
Never had a problem with gmail on Opera though and I use it everyday.
 
Lysander said:
I'd prefer to use one browser for everything, it's a pain otherwise. Which version of Opera are you using?
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Don't see how it can be a pain to be honest, especially if all you do is open a different browser for 1 or 2 sites.

I use 9.64 or whatever the latest one is :D
Gmail is one of the few websites that I do always use Opera for. I tend to visit different sites in IE8, FF3 and Opera 9
 
Of course it's a pain - for an end user (and so having no requirement to keep multiple browsers) what's the point in having two of them? Just makes things slower and more convoluted.
 
Strangely, I have never had a problem with opera on gmail either. I do have strange problems on other sites (rottentomatoes doesn't work for some reason) but I just keep firefox and IE as backups. However I don't move permanently to FF because I quite like how opera works and have gotten used to it.
 
Opera has a few problems these days, but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. Top of my head, only site I can think of that doesn't work is LoveFilm.

Rottentomatoes used to break, but they fixed that a while ago.

GMail always seems fine; but then I never bother logging out, I just close the tab.
 
reflux said:
GMail always seems fine; but then I never bother logging out, I just close the tab.
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I wouldn't bother logging out either normally but I have two Gmail accounts and I look at both regularly. Gmail has always been glitchy for me in Opera. It doesn't seem specific to which computer I use either.
 
I love using Opera but I have had to move over to Firefox due to some issues with certain websites. My Yorkshire bank account access can be a problem when using Opera, also Yahoo mail sometimes will revert back to the classic look, regardless of how I mask the browser.
There are other issues with formatting etc etc. All of these, over the years, I have reported but they still remain.
I tend to now use FF all the time as I do not have any of the above problems and the add-ons are great.

I tried having FF and Opera installed at the same time and used Opera for the majority of my browsing and then flipped to IE or FF for the problematic sites but that got a little messy with updating bookmarks etc.

Even though they have just released another Alpha version of Opera 10 (build 1413) I have decided to not bother and just keep to FF.
 
I'm very bias towards Opera and in recent years may have been a fan boy, but I have to say I'm in agreement with Lysander. There's a few things that have crept in over the years that have irked.

It's no longer the browser with the fastest engine. The 10alpha is a little bit quicker, but I still find less speed than Chrome/Iron with e.g. the heavy pages of eBay and Facebook.

Certain websites, even with the emulation (?) modes still won't display correctly. I've not had any problems with gMail, but eBay still is a problem, as is sometimes Hotmail and Yahoo. Not only do they appear wrong, but certain features just won't set correctly, e.g. with Yahoo Mail the reply functions don't always work.

I have had a hellish time installing Flash correctly and getting it to work. It's also fairly unstable in this respect; everytime I view e.g. a youTube video memory usage shoots right up, and stays there even after I the tab's closed and Ccleaner's run. I have to close the windows down and restart Opera.

Other third party apps will of course not always integrate / be designed for Opera. I love freedownloadmanager, and while it seems to indicate that it can be used with Opera, it doesn't offer the same funcionality and right click functions that appear in I.E. 7.

The ad blocker barely works at all, and I keep hearing that the add-on for Firefox is really much better.

It probably could do with more user control during setup. I don't need the bit torrent support (which is poor anyway), but would like the option to disable / not install it.
 
Site compatibility is the main reason I have never moved away from FF since the early Firebird days. I respect Opera for being a great browser but bugger me when I last gave it a week's test run during mid 2008 I found a lot of sites just displaying wrongly.

My very own blog using (was using) ajax controls were a mess, Llyods TSB wouldn't even accept my login credentials and that NS&I site had half the page missing. The week's trial ended fast and I just went back to FF. The only time Opera and IE get used by me is to test Wordpress theme compatibility nowadays.

FF maybe a sluggish, slightly less tubby git but on a modern rig it still flies. Still can't work out why they added BT support of all things.
 
Im another in the Firefox camp. Unless i where to open 10+ pages at once the sluggishness isnt a problem, whats an extra second or two plus the add ons are great and there are very few sites i cannot access.

Recently I gave Chrome a trial and its not bad with a few nice ideas but was happy to get back to my fox.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
It probably could do with more user control during setup. I don't need the bit torrent support (which is poor anyway), but would like the option to disable / not install it.
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You might know this but type 'opera:config' into the address bar, click on the Bitorrent header and uncheck the 'Enable' box. Opera will now not handle torrents itself. :)
 
MarcLister said:
You might know this but type 'opera:config' into the address bar, click on the Bitorrent header and uncheck the 'Enable' box. Opera will now not handle torrents itself. :)
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I'm aware of that, and have set it to not open torrents, but rather than it being ignored/supressed, surely it's better I have the option to just not install it right at the beginning?
 
Greenlizard0 said:
I'm aware of that, and have set it to not open torrents, but rather than it being ignored/supressed, surely it's better I have the option to just not install it right at the beginning?
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Yes of course. I wasn't sure if you knew about the tweak. Me and Lepers have often complained about the lack of a proper installer for Opera.
 
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