Re: [OT]Opera
From: Bill Brush <bbrush@u...>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:23:20 -0600
Subject: Re: [OT]Opera
My advice is to give Mozilla a try. Firefox is built to make IE users
comfortable. Mozilla is more like Netscape and IMO is more
configurable.
Bill
owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU wrote on 02/14/2005 07:18:40 PM:
> Pros/Cons:
> IE : Some sites require IE, eg MSNBC, MS update to patch windows, so
IE
> is compulsory. I never use it for anything else though, it's insecure
crap.
>
> Firefox: Doesn't handle some backgrounds well, rendering them as
black.
> Bummer if the text is also black. Periodic crashes when memory gets
> tight. Eats bandwidth due to refreshing. Otherwise the best behaved of
> all browsers, I use it whenever filling out forms (as in many logins).
>
> Opera: Doesn't handle some CSS very nicely, but worse, doesn't handle
> some GET form data in ways that MS server side can understand.
Periodic
> screen corruption when memory gets tight. Otherwise the fastest of
the
> 3, and the "restart from where you left off" feature is great.