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Firefox 2 vs. Opera 9 vs. Internet Explorer 7
ExtremeTech is running the sort of round-up article I've been waiting to see: Opera 9 vs. Firefox 2 vs. Internet Explorer 7. While the latter two are both in beta, ExtremeTech gives them all a thorough go-'round. The review also includes some revealing benchmarks, testing their memory usage with and without a bunch of open tabs (spoiler: IE wins with one tab, Opera wins with a bunch) as well as their start-up time (Opera is the best, and Firefox is the worst by a wide margin) and Acid2 standards test performance (Opera). ExtremeTech gives all three browsers high marks and doesn't declare a "winner": Firefox wins points for security and extensibility, Opera impresses with its mature tab implementation, and IE7 seems to have done quite a lot of catching up.
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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Night Elve said 3:30PM on 7-19-2006
I tried the three,in fact i have installed all of them. And well i did not like IE, Opera works well but im faithful to Firefox.
What i like most of Firefox is the beauty of have so many kick ass plugins and good looking themes.
Firefox could be the best by far if they manage to fix the utilization of RAM. It is a RAM Hunger.
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mg said 4:28PM on 7-19-2006
bad article.
from a developers point of view opera's and firefox's tech is far superior than that of ie. just have a look at the browser comparision tables on wikipedia - they tell the truth.
it doesn't make much sense to sum up a comparision by putting things like "can restore tabs" in a table with about a handful of rows and then give a suggestion.
i don't think the authors really know about browsers, features or layout engines. and the last part is very important.
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Ricardo Rueda said 7:21PM on 7-19-2006
open your eyes !!!!
the best is opera
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stevhorn said 9:59PM on 7-19-2006
I'm currently using all 3 and Netscape 8. I've just recently started using Opera, and I must say, I really like it. I'm using it on an XP box and a Linux(ubuntu) box. I like the integrated Bittorrent client, but the download speeds seem to be slower than Azureus.
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stevhorn said 10:02PM on 7-19-2006
I'm currently using all 3 and Netscape 8. I've just recently started using Opera, and I must say, I really like it. I'm using it on an XP box and a Linux(ubuntu) box. I like the integrated Bittorrent client, but the download speeds seem to be slower than Azureus.
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Tony F. said 1:28AM on 7-20-2006
Ya well, i admit it, i go to crack sites, and the newst ie (beta 3) still gets bombarded with malicious scripts and adware, even with all the new security, microsoft needs to completely redo there engine, or they will always be targeted. On the other hand, havent tried opera, but firefox is the best, other than some sites looking differnt in firefox than in ie (this is do to poor css coding)
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Sadequl Islam Mithun 756 = sim756 said 6:05AM on 7-20-2006
opera is the best bcz of it's image browsing capability. user can easily stop image downloading, that speed-up browsing!
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