

Huh? Where? You do realize that nicks isn’t the same as tags… right? It takes more than just basic searching to become awesome :PĬomparing the Opera implementation to the Firefox one is like comparing AltaVista with Google. But thanks to the wonderful Mozilla community I can enhance my experience in various ways. If there’s somewhere I need to go all I have to do is to open a new blank tab and enter a letter or two and I’m there. I have these two pages open already ( among 229 other) as I haven’t had a reason to restart my computer since I last updated the kernel three months ago. I don’t have to care which browser I use, because all I have to do is: go to to see updates for my 193 subscriptions and go to to read any new mail from however many accounts I so wish without it being detrimental to my computers performance.
Safari vs firefox lightweight download#
Still faster, still more lightweight, and I only have to download the core package ) Nothing beats firefox’s speed, if if it isn’t the fastest on paper.”Ĭheck, check, and even more customizable. “And the awesomebar, and the tags for bookmarks, and the ultra super handy fully customizable search bar. My bookmarks panel is accessible via the panel on the left, the start bar that drops open when I click on the address bar, or Ctrl + B.

I do this in less than 30 seconds.”Įach time I start up Opera it checks the 83 RSS feeds that I can read with my built-in RSS feed reader (and continues to do this every 15 minutes), checks my mail on 4 different accounts, 3 IMAP, 1 POP3 (and continues to do this every minute), opens up the 6 sites I usually check in the morning + a speed dial tab. The 5 bookmarks are open by middleclick in my sidebar too. The 3 sites are checked with an extension and it takes no actual time, as it’s done automatically. In Firefox the RSS feeds are ultra quick, with me using the sidebar and middleclicking what I want to open. “Each morning I check 12 RSS feeds for new items, 3 sites for changes and 5 bookmarks for day-to-day browsing. Don’t forget the famous Microsoft quote: “To actually see the difference in page loads between all three browsers, you need slow-motion video.” Expect for that fact that IE is 2.5x slower… tom – Typical Myspace profileįor some graphs and more details, please visit the original post (site is down atm).Īs you can see, Opera is a winner here, followed by Safari and Chrome. – A poorly designed site weighing 820 kb with over 280 images While some sites are posting usual SunSpider results, Codexon has decided to run something closer to the “real life situations”.Īs a result, he loaded 10 web sites and calculated load time. It seems that everyone is testing web browsers this week.
