Firefox or Opera?

Litis · **Posted:** December 10th, 2007, 11:30 am

Here's a few key criteria of mine and how they work for me in each browser.

	Firefox	Opera
RuneScape	Doesn't work well, freezes for about a minute when advertisements load	Works well, barely freezes when advertisements load
Jamendo (a free music website I use a lot)	Everything works just fine	The music player doesn't work at all (although this might get fixed)
Size	Bigger - just because of XULRunner	Quite small
Speed	Quite fast, but may freeze easily	Faster than Firefox, doesn't have problems with objects
Crashing	Crashes rarely, but from no apparent reason	Crashes every time I try to export settings from Thunderbird (e-mail doesn't work anyway), but didn't crash in other cases so far
Ease of use	I'm used to it, but it's quite easy to use by itself	Easy to use, except the RSS reader

So, anyone can advice me on which one I should I use and how? I don't want to switch from that to that and back again all the time.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 10th, 2007, 11:30 am

Gontcha · **Posted:** December 10th, 2007, 12:09 pm

FF, rs doesn't freeze as much if you keep yourself to 2-3 tabs, and if you got good ram, probably 5-7 will get you whitescreened after a while.
Ehm, I'd say FF, again.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** December 10th, 2007, 12:57 pm

I've never had issues playing RS in Firefox, even with a lot of tabs open. Same goes with the speed problems you're having. The only roadblock I do have is that Firefox is rubbish at handling PDFs and it'll freeze due to that.

Litis · **Posted:** December 10th, 2007, 12:58 pm

The problem is, it still freezes when I only have one RuneWire tab and minimized foobar2000 running.
Also, I have 256 megabytes of RAM. That's at least four times less than most computers today, but it's twice more than the minimum RAM required to run RuneScape at high detail (and it freezes on low detail, too).
For now I'll be sticking to Opera for playing RuneScape, but I don't want to switch browsers all the time. Anyone has other suggestions/browsers?

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** December 10th, 2007, 1:01 pm

Litis wrote:

The problem is, it still freezes when I only have one RuneWire tab and minimized foobar2000 running.
Also, I have 256 megabytes of RAM. That's at least four times less than most computers today, but it's twice more than the minimum RAM required to run RuneScape at high detail (and it freezes on low detail, too).
For now I'll be sticking to Opera for playing RuneScape, but I don't want to switch browsers all the time. Anyone has other suggestions/browsers?

Whatever works for you there. One thing about RS's minimum requirements: they don't account for the fact that Java itself is laggy. All I can really recommend is that you buy some more RAM. It's not hard to install, it's cheap, and it really makes a difference.

Nice to see you back, Litis

Litis · **Posted:** December 10th, 2007, 1:46 pm

Yeah, I guess all I can do about this is buy more RAM... and dust my computer's case. I can already imagine seeing a happy family of spiders living there.
As for me being back, I'll try to hang around without disappearing as much as I can.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 10th, 2007, 1:46 pm

Gzpro · **Posted:** December 11th, 2007, 8:05 am

FireFox is great! But lately its been crashing like crazy so sometimes I use Opera.

Alex · **Posted:** December 13th, 2007, 7:00 pm

I seem to be getting Error Reports with Firefox whenever I start it. So I'm using Opera. It's okay though...

But I prefer Firefox.

Ret Steel · **Posted:** December 19th, 2007, 10:07 pm

i definitely prefer Firefox, but every so often mine fritzes out and i use opera, which is definitely a close second.
ahhhh I'de say use whichever you think works better, maybe for different tasks use different browsers?