Opera 7.5 preview :)

[Matt Weston]

http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39541

I don't know if any of you guys use Opera, but I can tell you from experience that it's one of the best browsers out there. The new version (just a beta) has got an integrated IRC client (as well as the mail client that was in previous versions). It's amazingly customisable, not very memory-intensive, and has great features such as mouse gestures, tabs and partial CSS3 support (for those who care about such things). It's fully skinnable and generally great. If you haven't used it before, I'd give the latest normal version 7.23 a try first (get it from http://download.opera.com). If you're already an Opera user, I'd do a clean install (definitely don't upgrade) of 7.5 to see what you think. I warn you, at this stage it takes a lot of playing to get it to look good, but it's worth the effort I reckon.

Any other Opera users out there?

 

[Stryper]

i used to use it, but it takes up way to much ram. so i dumped it. and i didnt want to pay for it. so i got the adbar

 

[Matt Weston]

Heh, I always notice a drop in RAM usage whenever I run it. I reckon the ad bar is worth it as I don't think any other browser comes close in features without insane amounts of (even more RAM-intensive) add-ons.

RAM-usage

Outlook + IE = 36Mb
Firebird + Thunderbird = 37Mb
Opera = 27Mb
Mozilla = 25Mb

 

[Geoff_Conn]

Using the new onw. I like it!

 

[Fac3less]

I used to use it as well - but then some sort of memory leak began to happen and whenever I attempted to listen to music or watch streaming media in it - it would go crazy and hog resources but never let them go..

so back to using Mozilla, the new 1.6 is great.

 

[Achichem]

Any other Opera users out there?

I use it don't play with it too much though.

 

[mrgrandyman]

I looked at Opera when I was in middle school / high school (in college now) but haven't touched it since. LOL...y'all got me interested. So I'll have to check it out.

I do regularly use Mozilla Firebird. I like the integrated popup blocker it has. Relatively small memory footprint, too. Only problem that brings me back to IE is pages coded for displayin IE don't display in Firebird properly. So that is frustrating...what else is new...

Adam

 

[holo]

The important thing isn't what browser you use, as long as it's not IE.
I can't think of one good thing about it.
Opera rules though.

 

[RabidYeti]

I use a combination of IE, Firebird and Opera as they all interprit web pages differently and are useful in their own ways

 

[Glacial]

I'm an ex-Opera user. It's a fantastic browser, but I generally find Mozilla Firebird superior on most levels. That being said, Opera is a quality product, and it is far better than IE.

 

[QuePasa]

I use Mozilla Firebird, and I thought it was a relatively light browser, but right now, I'm browsing this site, and this site only with no tabs open. Firebird is using 31,272k of ram for just this site. That is probably more than explorer would use...but I like tabbed browsing. Why oh why. I think I'll check out Opera for once, even though I've heard of some nasty security exploits for it.

 

[mrgrandyman]

I use Mozilla Firebird [...] and this site only with no tabs open. Firebird is using 31,272k of ram for just this site.

That has also been my experience with Firebird (that it uses a lot of RAM).

Adam

 

[Chakotay]

I am also using Opera 7.5 preview release 1. So far it works fine on my dinosaur of a PC. I don't tweak it much. I use the basic browser, no mail client or the other attachments. It's pretty fast on my system.