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Originally Posted by Jimmy 2004
In some ways it's good for you guys (Opera users) that the browser never truly took off in the same way that Firefox did. I'm not saying it's badly written
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How could you? It's the:
- Most secure (this you concede to, no need for URL backing substantiation)
- And, had features like tabbed browsing, BEFORE FIREFOX & IE did mind you
Based on all of that? The coders there are NOT imo @ least, winning security via "security by obscurity" as it is called & you are stating...
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Originally Posted by Jimmy 2004
but it is a fact that the more widely used a piece of software is, the more people will try to hack it.
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Generally, folks say that's true... could be here too, but, the list above tends to make ME @ least (a developer) gravitate towards "it's better, because it has the best browser coding team out there coding it"...
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Originally Posted by Jimmy 2004
Because Opera is a good browser and few people use it, it's actually a decent choice - there isn't much incentive for the hackers to find flaws in it.
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Well, to each his own... but the list above tends to say otherwise.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy 2004
Personally Firefox has something I like, so I stick to that, but the only problem I ever had with Opera was the old ad banner, but generally speaking it was good.
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Well, FireFox is decent, but I just have gotten SO used to Opera, that I tend to use it more... but I DO use all 3 browsers here @ home.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy 2004
On todays internet connections and quick computers nearly all of the browsers seem to be about the same speed, but Opera has always had a reputation of being fast.
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On today's internet, fast or not overall? It still wins the tests I have seen, overall, & on the MOST hardware platforms & really WAILS on Windows (most used PC OS platform there is, bar none)...
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