CreepyPirate wrote:
MOTV is going to kill you.
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Opera's memory usage is higher than other browsers at startup, I did not say it isnt. You must remember, however, that Opera has a hell of a lot more features than FF or IE. I do have a .doc somewhere with all the features of FF and Opera compared - if you want it, pm me your msn name and i'll send it to you.
If you use Opera and FF for a few hours, browsing normally, the graph of ram usage will look something like this:
A friend of mine uses FF, and he complains that it uses 200mb of ram quite frequently, whereas the highest Opera has ever got to for me is about 115mb (and that was with 2 java applets, a flash movie and a quicktime video). He tried limiting Firefox to using 40mb of ram cache, and it did only use that much... but it decided it would use 80% of his processor power. I have my Opera ram cache set to 40mb max, and it never uses any more than about 6% processor power.
I am sure i am right in thinking that the startup speed you have put there is for
warm start - meaning you open it, close it, then open it and time the second opening. On my comp, the cold starts (thats the first open) are somewhere around this:
Opera: 6 seconds
IE7: 20 seconds
Firefox 1.5: 15 seconds
Appearance: I do not judge that as too fair, because both FF and Opera can be skinned. Just because the default skin on any browser looks horrible doesnt mean
every skin looks horrible.
Ease of use: I suppose you gave Opera its -3 because of the sidebar? (when maximised, move your mouse to the far left and click.) I especially like the mouse gestures as well. I hardly ever click back or forward; with mouse gestures enabled, hold right click and move the mouse to the left, you go back, hold right click and move to the right, forward, hold right click and move the mouse down, new tab. For me, middle click opens a link or bookmark in a new tab. I have customised it to fit my needs.
Why is it that all my posts about Opera are really long?
