Brandon716
Senior Member
Any of you had a chance to try the new Opera browser? Lately I've been experiencing lots of issues with IE not loading web sites at random, seems to be a DNS problem but its only a guess. I use Google Chrome and Firefox when I can, but a particular problem I noticed with those browsers is that they take a lot of resources when loading a lot of flash video sites. Say I have a news site in one tab, a few youtubes up in another... The browser becomes pretty intensive on my computer and sometimes the performance is noticable.
But years ago I remembered using Opera and not being impressed, it used to be shareware and you had to pay for it. Now its totally free and I've been using it for the past week.
After extensive testing, it appears to use fewer resources than Chrome and Firefox, and it doesn't have the problems IE has associated with it. It appears to run many Youtube vids without what I call the Chrome-lag. Plus unlike Chrome its fully featured, even more than Firefox. You can chat in IRC, it has its own mail client, and to top it off it natively handles torrent files (although I haven't used that feature).
I highly recommend you guys give v10 beta a test, I think more people would enjoy it.
http://www.opera.com
Its totally free and I truly feel the new version is better than the competition from Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft, and the Chrome team at Google.
I just opened 10 Youtube videos and played them simultaneously in Opera at full speed, they didn't slow much at all. In Chrome it was not even playing fast enough to be full video, and I'm on a Quad Core system now.
Don't bother downloading the 9.64, make sure you download the new v10 beta.
http://www.opera.com/browser/next/
But years ago I remembered using Opera and not being impressed, it used to be shareware and you had to pay for it. Now its totally free and I've been using it for the past week.
After extensive testing, it appears to use fewer resources than Chrome and Firefox, and it doesn't have the problems IE has associated with it. It appears to run many Youtube vids without what I call the Chrome-lag. Plus unlike Chrome its fully featured, even more than Firefox. You can chat in IRC, it has its own mail client, and to top it off it natively handles torrent files (although I haven't used that feature).
I highly recommend you guys give v10 beta a test, I think more people would enjoy it.
http://www.opera.com
Its totally free and I truly feel the new version is better than the competition from Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft, and the Chrome team at Google.
I just opened 10 Youtube videos and played them simultaneously in Opera at full speed, they didn't slow much at all. In Chrome it was not even playing fast enough to be full video, and I'm on a Quad Core system now.
Don't bother downloading the 9.64, make sure you download the new v10 beta.
http://www.opera.com/browser/next/