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Opera
roberts:
I was so hoping and looking forward to a fast stable Opera. Seems stability has given way to the race to be the fastest. But what good is being the fastest if not stable.
maro:
Robert, I think you should just give it a try. I started using an early alpha release of 10.5x and that was pretty bad. After lodging a few bug reports I was pleasantly surprised that "my bugs" got resolved pretty quickly. I then used the various 10.5x and 10.60 beta releases as my default browser and things just got more and more stable. I would not state that it was the most stable browser ever, but I had way more crashes using a FF v3.5x than with these Opera beta releases. It was certainly quite usable.
Unfortunately my main laptop is currently undergoing a warranty repair so I'm on a "diet" using TC 2.x on a 10 year old Dell notebook (500MHz Pentium III, 256MB). This is very limiting compared to my default system. I therefore restrict myself to Opera 9.64, and have not yet used the final 10.60 version. But I'm rather confident that it would become my default browser. It only needs the 'fontconfig.tcz' extension, which is not too bad compared to Opera 10.10.
Whilst I'm typically strongly against having multiple versions of the same application in the repository I wonder whether we should (at least for a while) allow both the current Opera 10.10 and the new Opera 10.60. To be honest I'd say that the "heavy" dependencies of the old version alone would be a reason to remove it and replace it with the new one (as long as we keep the Opera 9.64 extension around).
So maybe if a few more Core members would give the latest one a trial we might be able to settle this question rather sooner than later.
roberts:
Tried 10.60 and still experience not being able to enter text into some text input areas. This is same that I was experiencing with the beta. I am not able to use 10.60. 10.10 is way to bloated for my likes. 9.62 is way too old. So on to another browser for now.
Juanito:
--- Quote from: roberts on July 06, 2010, 08:48:09 AM ---9.64 is way too old...
--- End quote ---
..but works fine for me :)
roberts:
I like to watch technical broadcasts from Google and others typically done in flash. 9.62 most often than not does not allow full screen. Pressing the full screen widget often is ignored. I am often asked about such my friends. If one does not use or need flash then basic browsing is OK.
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