Why I've switched to Opera

[Howard Gibson]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:13:06 -0500
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>   There was an article on Slashdot a day or so ago about yet more
> cra^H^H^H "features" that the Mozilla people will be stuffing into
> Firefox.  Arrrrrgh.
> 
>   The final straw came when setting up my notebook.  This is a
> relatively new laptop, with just 64-bit Gentoo linux, X, and a few apps
> installed.  Gentoo generally downloads source tarballs, except for a few
> binaries.  Here's what I get when doing "emerge -pv" (a "pretend"
> install in verbose mode) with *MINIMAL* dependancies for each of the
> browsers...

Walter,

   I have used Opera extensively until recently.  It is fast, and it has a nice user interface.  

   Recently, Opera has been crashing my Fedora desktop.  I am back to Firefox.

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