Why I've switched to Opera

CLIFFORD ILKAY clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sun Feb 20 02:17:38 UTC 2011


On 02/19/2011 03:21 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Here's the output from "emerge -pv firefox-bin"
> Total: 17 packages (17 new), Size of downloads: 51,266 kB
[snip]
> Here's the output from "emerge -pv opera"
[snip]
> Total: 6 packages (6 new), Size of downloads: 14,651 kB

Disk space being so expensive, I see your point. :)

FYI, I've never found Opera to have any appreciable advantage over 
Firefox in terms of speed or resource utilization. They both get piggy 
if you have many tabs open, especially if Flash is involved.
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