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Funny how a question about the Opera browser went this far into OS discussion. Oh well, I guess this is the general topic forum...
I installed Fedora Core 4 onto a PIII 733 laptop with a 12GB hard drive. When it was done, I had 9GB left. 3GB seems like a lot for an OS. 15 seems like a heckuva lot. But as it relates to Opera, and development, I develop to a standard first, then makes things work within their environment. All the better when things work out of the chutes, but as long as they work to the standard, I'm happy.
I installed Fedora Core 4 onto a PIII 733 laptop with a 12GB hard drive. When it was done, I had 9GB left. 3GB seems like a lot for an OS. 15 seems like a heckuva lot. But as it relates to Opera, and development, I develop to a standard first, then makes things work within their environment. All the better when things work out of the chutes, but as long as they work to the standard, I'm happy.
3GB for Fedora sounds good. I think the thing is with an os which takes 15 gb but doesn't do anything more, there must be some bloat. And in general, I always prefer the lightest software. Small programs always start up faster, are easier and faster to backup/re-install, and leave more space for other stuff. Even though HD space isn't expensive, I know many notebooks still have fairly small ones. Like when you have 30,40 or 60 (like in my macbook) you don't want the system and software to take up 30GB.
Talking about speed, I do like Opera! If only all (FF) developer extensions could also be on Opera... I would know which one I'd use.
Talking about speed, I do like Opera! If only all (FF) developer extensions could also be on Opera... I would know which one I'd use.
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Being a zealot is fine if you can back it up. I know what I am looking for in a development tool (when it comes to browsers). If it can give me what I want then I am golden. If I can get the same extensions in some form in Opera I would be more inclined to go with that browser.
Do you have any clues on how to get these extensions going in Opera:
Do you have any clues on how to get these extensions going in Opera:
- IE Tab
- the XML Developer Toolbar
- the Web Developer Toolbar
- Restart Tabbed Firefox
- FireFTP
- Greasemonkey
- PDF Download
- Colorzilla
- ServerSpy
- Sage
- ErrorZillaMod
For some crazy reason, I use my browser mainly for browsing, and that's where my feature requests are usually directedEverah wrote:Being a zealot is fine if you can back it up. I know what I am looking for in a development tool (when it comes to browsers). If it can give me what I want then I am golden. If I can get the same extensions in some form in Opera I would be more inclined to go with that browser.
J/k -- I know there is high demand for extensibility in Opera, but alas - it is not done (yet?). Sorry - no extensions at all. What's your trouble with Firefox (as a dev tool) if you have what you need? And as a browser even - it's fairly good, fairly fast and fairly secure.
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It has some memory use issues that, as the day progresses, seems to make the browser slower and my system sluggish. I love everything about it. But Opera is a faster, lighter browser that I could see myself getting into. But for now, I will stay with Firefox. It still blows IE out of the freaking water.
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