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jmcook79

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I just downloaded the latest version of Opera for Windows since I love the Android version so much, especially with off-road mode (blazing fast on 3g). I must say I am very dissapionted. It actually runs slower than my normal browser, Firefox.

I mainly use Firefox on my laptop for its vast extensions and for a few specific ones that not even Chrome has. After using Opera Mobile Browser for Android, I decided to give the windows version a try just for web browsing when I didn't need extensions.

For some reason It hangs for 5-10 seconds almost every time I click a link. If I turn off-road mode on just to speed things up, sometimes it works and sometimes I actually have to turn it back off to get a page to load. It's back to Firefox for me. Is anyone else having these problems?
 
I used to use Opera for a PC a few years ago, but not touched it since going over to Firefox or Chrome as my preferred browsers. One thing, I don't think I can login to my banks with Opera. Sure it's Firefox, Chrome or IE only.

I was playing with Opera Mini on my phone for a while. But the only version we can easily get here is hard coded to only communicate with servers in Beijing. Even when I was in the UK this year, the version of Mini I had was still using servers in China, until I re-downloaded it from the UK Google Play Store. Come back to China, and found can't use the one I downloaded in the UK, have to go back to the special "PRC" edition. So I didn't bother, and removed Mini completely. That's Opera complying with the internet censorship laws. Many phones here do come with Mini pre-installed.
 
Think it changed over to Webkit. A lot of users dropped it.

It was one of the few browsers that let you turn off images on the fly. With FX, you need an extension.
 
You use one which works best on each platform. For me on phone that is Opera, at home, Firefox (or Safari). Chrome failed me on both (pitifully slow on phone, uninspiring at home). Really I wish Opera would sort their desktop browser out (older versions used to be great) so that I have a perfect match (phone & desktop). They seem to be trying to emulate chrome at the minute, do not want!
 
I used opera way back when. I remember loving how fast it was at loading and it was a decent interface. However I couldn't do somethings with some websites that I needed to do so I ended up ditching it. I use chrome on both the Lappy and the Phone. It just works for me and thats what I love about it.
 
I just tried the stock ICS browser, whatever it's called, and I'm actually surprised at how fast it is. I haven't read too many good things about it so until now I never even bothered. On my phone it outperformed chrome and Firefox and is only a little slower than opera browser with off road mode on!
 
jmcook79 said:
For some reason It hangs for 5-10 seconds almost every time I click a link. If I turn off-road mode on just to speed things up, sometimes it works and sometimes I actually have to turn it back off to get a page to load. It's back to Firefox for me. Is anyone else having these problems?
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No. However, A) I'm on Linux, and, B) I rarely use Opera. Not because I don't like it or it's too slow or anything, it's just that my 'real' browser (from the Internet suite, SeaMonkey, formerly known as the Mozilla Suite) is my preferred browser. I have Opera installed on all my computers because I like it, and I like having tons of browsers installed. :) And when I do use it, I don't experience any of the issues you're describing.
 
Speaking of Linux, I've used it on and off throughout the years. I started with Slackware way back in 96, then used Debian for several years. I eventually went back to windows because I bought a new laptop with windows 7 and liked it, so I just stuck with it.

Now I have a laptop with windows 8 and even though I hated it at first, I love it now. I did use Linux Mint on a used laptop that I bought at a garage sale last year until the motherboard died and I must say Linux has came a long way.

There is one program I love so much that keeps me with windows and that's MediaMonkey. That and I find that I'm much less obsessed with windows and I tend to just use my computer. With Linux, I wasted far too much time experimenting, tinkering, etc. :laugh:

I would be willing to try a windows phone, but now that I'm used to android I like it so much that I don't know if I could part with it!
 
I bought Opera at version 6. I loved version 8. It could spoof any browser. If a site got obnoxious, I could turn it into that old white on blue that didn't do anything but words.

Once Opera started adding all the junk, like gestures, turbo, speed dial, social and a mail service, I dropped it. It pestered about setting up a mail account, and I didn't want it. Also too hard to edit. At least FX and Pale Moon have about:config.
 
We need a good "manual" browser that only updates security. I don't need or want automatic connections to social media since I'm too lazy or dumb to use a bookmark.

I've just seen some location crap in FX where FX wants you to share. NO WAY.
I won't support this stupid town if I can help it, so local ads will do you no good and pi$$ me off. I'll have to find out where it is in "about:config" and edit it.
 
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