Stress testing Opera
My Firefox 3.0 experience has been terrible. Apparently, before the first proper release, they were saying that some people, a minority, would experience instability but for the most part, Firefox 3.0 was stable. I seem to have been part of the minority.
It made blogging very difficult. I usually have multiple tabs open at any given time. More-so when writing to this blog. Wikipedia, news services, other blogs and so on. News Ltd websites threw me for a loop, as did many Facebook pages and a number of blogs that I’ve been meaning to read more of.
All it took was to load up some embedded flash content that the browser didn’t like and it all came crashing down and when I went to restore the last session, sometimes the “last session” was a number of days earlier!
So now I’ve got Opera installed. I’ve already stress tested some of the usual suspects without a single hitch.
This looks like the one. I’d say cross your fingers, but I don’t go for that numinous kind of stuff.
~ Bruce
Good luck with Opera. Based on my experience, Opera is more stable, more responsive, and much faster than any version of Firefox. It doesn’t support extensions but I don’t really care for any extension that isn’t already built-in to Opera.
BTW, there’s also Google Chrome, which also fast, but still unstable in some areas. Or if you still want a Mozilla-based browser, try K-Meleon: fast, minimalistic, a few extensions.
Danny, it’s so far so good with Opera. Still have to try and match the features of my optimal Firefox setup, but I’m happy enough with the stability as is.