Opera 7.54 faster than Firefox for me

Pros: Been using Opera 7.54 now for a few days, and growing to like it more and more. Tried both Firefox and Opera, and on my system (Pentium III 800, Windows XP2) Opera is much faster than Firefox and slightly (and more consistently) faster than IE6. Been reliable to date, and has much more to offer than Firefox on initial setup. Also like the fact that when pages are loading at the bottom of the screen it tells you exactly what is happening and at what speed it is happening. Like that there are loads of free skins available

Cons: Intially front end seems confusing, but is easily configurable and I prefer the approach of removing what you don't want (as opposed to Firefox approach which is to start simple and then add more). Has its own E-Mail client, which I haven't used yet, and would have prefered the option to be able to integrate use Outlook Express into Opera more easily until I sussed out if I wanted to use Opera's E-Mail program

Posted: 08-Mar-2005 10:51:13 AM