Firefox vs IE vs Opera vs Safari vs Netscape

[Falesh]

I use Opera for both general browsing and web dev stuff. The only time I use Firefox, apart from testing pages in all browsers, is for the Web Developer extension which is excellent. There are lots of reasons why I like Opera, it's standards compliance, mouse gestures, speed, the email client (which rocks), etc.

My personal panacea would be to see Opera, FF and IE all have the same market share (well if I'm dreaming I would like to see MS's festering hulk fail badly an never be seen again). That way they could all push each other to improve and we would not have the slow progress that is a feature of MS screwing everyone over with their market dominance.

p.s. I hate IE, but you might have guessed that. :p

p.p.s Oh yeah, Opera have something similar to extentions now: widgets, the Rulers and The Colours Of The Rainbow are handy for CSS work.

[kev woodman]

I'll definitely give Opera a proper go. And while we're still discussing browsers - what about Konqueror. I've been using K quite a bit recently and I can't say it gives me any problems.

[paul]

Looking on the current poll results so far on this thread, I wonder Opera still not get any score. :eek: Firefox rocks still!

[kev woodman]

With a mighty 5 votes lol

[paul]

You are looking into the number, I am looking to the percentage.

[kev woodman]

Ah the third type of lie

[dyyynko]

Firefox of course. Firefox is much better than Internet Explorer and Opera. But Opera isn't rubbish. It's also good browser.

[Falesh]

Out of interest why do you feel Firefox is much better then Opera?

[Administrator]

Opera is memory intensive. Firefox uses almost 50% memory in comparison with Opera. you can do this experiment on your end.

Open 50 websites using Opera and check the memory usage and cpu usage. Close all windows and then do same thing with firefox.

I understand the difference better coz I open more than 10 tickets in multiple tabs and more than 10 WHM's at a time. other things are there like the billing system, domain registrations, paypal, 2co and customers websites.

[kev woodman]

I may try that because I find FF memory usage to be pretty awful when compared to IE. In fact overall I would say I encounter problems more often in FF than with either IE or Opera. Doesn't stop me using it but it has made it important for me to save sessions.

[Falesh]

I often have multiple applications running, including memory intensive ones like Photoshop, at the same time as having Opera open with multiple tabs. I haven't noticed any effect on system performance when using Opera this way. Then again I haven't checked how much ram Opera is using. Is the memory usage causing your system to slow down or is it just using what is available?

[Administrator]

I need more memory for SSH client and Remote Desktop but Opera makes things difficult for the system when you have multiple SSH clients and RDP sessions open.

There's no problem when you open only websites in this browsers but difference is seen only when other applications demand RAM.

[kev woodman]

My non-scientific test supports Opera as well.

Both browsers were tested ion the same machine which was also running Photoshop and Office 2007. To be sure there wasn't any caching or prefetch shenanigans the machine was rebooted between tests. Both browsers had 30 tabs open with each tab displaying the Google personalised home page.

The result was a massive 266,136 Kb of RAM usage by FF compared to a more reasonable 146,292 Kb for Opera.

But before everyone gets too carried away IE7 was the outright winner in the memory usage stakes with a mere 84,052 Kb less than a third of FF's.

Unfortunately IE took the gloss of it's victory by using 97% of the CPU resources and locking the box up for 4 minutes Still you can't knock that memory usage - it was only marginally higher than FF's when FF was only running two tabs.

[Falesh]

Unfortunately IE took the gloss of it's victory by using 97% of the CPU resources and locking the box up for 4 minutes :p

lol, I like it.

[paul]

Opera has no "extensions" like those of Firefox however it includes many other features by default like Java, Flash etc, for true comparison between both add firefox and thunderbird together and then compare it from Opera, you will find firefox is much better. <o ="">
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