And Firefox 1.5 released

If I have the time I will check it out. If something looks the same, doesn't always mean it's the same.
It's not my priority #1, because I have it already, but I will remember Opera as alternative browser.
I have a new computer very soon and I have alot of other things to learn : winXPproSP2, partitioning, image backup before I start using Shadowuser and I have to evaluate several other softwares to choose the one I like the most.

 

That's b/c Opera uses the keyboard for many other things, like spacial navigation and co (try browsing the web w/o a mouse and w/o Opera...), so you have to tell it you want to search with ';'. One extra keypress, come on

-RE

 

has anyone seen a diffrence in this new release?

coz to be honest i haven't? i don't find it faster browsing nor faster in performance.


i am a firefox fan btw. i only use firefox. and very few time opera but hardely ever. and i don't use Internet Explorer at all not even to update windows i don't bother. from now on i will only download the service packs waiting for sp3 for windows xp.


but about firefox. is the security better? from 1.07 to 1.5?

 

i've been using Firefox for a while now (and i love it) and recently installed Opera 8 in my other sisters laptop out of curiousity last week...im going to have to say im quite impressed. I'd say the recent Opera browser is just as fast as Firefox 1.5...The browser itself looks nice. a really big improvement compared to when i tried it 4 years ago. It's actually making me think twice to install it in my own laptop.

the question is....is Opera as "safe" as Firefox? What are the advantage of Firefox over Opera? not to mention the gazillion extensions firefox have?
anyone here who has tried the most recent Opera version yet? What do you guys think?

 

Opera is certainly as safe as ff for what I know, the thing is, neither are perfect of course. Extensions are really a design choice rather than an advantage; when you realize that you have to expose the core of your products for just anyone to tinker with it, and when you had to maintain your extensions, from one machine to another or one version to the next, with non-compatible extensions, some that mess things up etc (remember DLL hell?), it's not all rosy. Finding and tuning your extensions/ff is good fun, though, if you like to tune things that is. Opera is more monolithic, and this has many advantages. The code is consistent and somewhat safer, since eerything comes from Opera developers.
The clincher, for me, is the UI. I don't like XUL, it's slow (on XP at least), and not particularly good looking. Opera UI is not a work of art either (though all right by all means), but it's *fast* and very functional. That's more important to me than toying with small extensions (though some are nice for sure). Also, you certainly can tune Opera a great deal by tweaking you ini files. Yeah, that's not as easy as installing xpi, but well for techies it's bread and butter.
I personally use both Opera and ff, for web design if only, but my main browser is Opera.

-RE

 

Opera
- pros: stability, standards, speed
- cons: problems in some websites

Firefox
- pros: features added by extenstions
- cons: stability, some extension developers can stop to support them...

 

Has anyone managed to add new or updated extensions manually?
I've tried but there doesn't seem to be a way to do it
In v1.07 and others before it you could add and update manually
with no problems

Back to v1.07 for now

 

Rip, yes, extensions can be installed manually if one so wishes.
Simply right click the "Install Now" and 'save as' to say, your
desktop.

Open Extensions Manager and drag it in there. Restart FFox.

 

Chachazz - cheers for the reply

Yes, I know how to save XPI files and have installed ALL my
extensions manually in v1.07 and every version previous
to this one.
With v1.5 when I dragged the extension onto the open
extensions box nothing happened. I tried many times
and had already uninstalled all those extensions I had
v1.5 updates for. I was left with no choice but to re-install
v1.07