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Re: Opera, any good or no?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Fri Nov 27 09:55:12 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 05:50:53 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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David_M_Morgan@rsh.net wrote:
>
> I've recently been thinking of trying out Opera, I've used Netscape and
> Mosic but with Mosic not in active development and Netscape getting bigger
> and bigger I'd like to try something diferent. So anyone have any comments?
>
Well, it fits on a floppy; does not have an email client. It
has some interesting features. The bookmark handling is
better than Netscape 4.0x, but about equivalent to 4.5. IT
loads faster than 4.0x, but only a bit faster than 4.5. It
is not as stable as 4.5.
Lastly, it costs money and is not available for Linux yet.
Personally, I think that the best was Netscape 3.04. That one
had the best mailer by far and they should have continued to
refine it (not make it bigger, just more stable/better). 3.04
has a few rough edges too, corrected in 4.5: User profiles
(dubious benefit in Linux), leaving mail on server has option
to "delete messages in reader also deletes on server" (excellent).
The browser has a switch to disable cookies, handles java better
without crashes, and has better handling of bookmarks. Nothing
that would seem to justify growing from 5 MB to 11 MB.
With AOL and Sun getting hold of Netscape, it remains to be
seen what is going to happen in this area. The Opera browser
is a contender, but its not there yet: no Linux port and no Mail.
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