What is Digg?200 Comments
- 1o1q1, on 04/28/2008, -10/+64it doesn't need the addons just go try it
- xtremesniper, on 04/28/2008, -2/+52There are a lot of features built into Opera that Firefox would need extensions for. I would suggest giving Opera a try, since there are a lot of unadvertised features that go under the radar.
- AmazingAndrex, on 04/28/2008, -7/+39"First impressions? It's faaaaaast."
Good, I'm sick of Safari touting it's the fastest browser as basically its only feature. - LumpOfCole, on 04/28/2008, -4/+31An incredible browser and overall a great beta, but still has issues to be ironed out before Final.
- Ramble, on 04/28/2008, -0/+26Yes you can.
- withoutasol, on 04/28/2008, -2/+25I've been of Opera since it dropped the ads. I couldn't go back to Firefox after being spoiled by Opera's tab handling. The ability to duplicate tabs and retain the tabs browsing history is freakin awesome. The best new feature would have to be the ability to search through the pages you visited in the address bar. It not only searches through the domains but the content as well. Its a shame Opera desktop doesn't get the recognition it deserves because its little things like how it handles tabs, how it allows you to open recently closed tabs (all while retaining the tabs browsing history), lets you create a search from any search field, that make browsing the web more efficient.
- AgentEntropy, on 04/28/2008, -0/+22That's not true. The urlfilter.ini is just a text file with an include/exclude list. You can fill it in with whatever you'd like. There is a user-made urlfilter.ini file easily found thru Google that I use and it blocks damn near everything.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -3/+22looks like all the new versions of the major browsers are all about speed…
as long as you don't consider internet explorer a browser - Dongvid, on 04/28/2008, -0/+18Like you'd actually check out the source code of anything other than "hello world."
- thecosmicpope, on 04/28/2008, -2/+19I love Opera. I really do. Its so fast that it embarrasses Firefox. But I still use Firefox because its so user friendly. Last time I used Opera it did have ad blocking, but I had to use ini files and all the rest of it. Why do that when Firefoxs Ad-Block extension not only comes with an auto-updating pre-defined list, but is a simple "Right Click - Block Image" or click the block tab above a flash file? I didn't even know Digg had ads until I loaded Opera.
If Opera can offer me proper easy ad-blocking like Firefox does, I'll use it every time. Until then I have to stick with Firefox. There is quite a lot more I'd like done to it, but proper ad-blocking is the only essential one for me - Dongvid, on 04/28/2008, -0/+15but not it's speed. nowhere close.
- Ramble, on 04/28/2008, -0/+15Well I've been using Firefox since 0.7 and Opera a long time too. Graphically, I think it looks good, it's fast and simple and easily customisable. It's a hell of a lot faster than Firefox and IE (and yes you can tell the difference), it has pretty much everything you need build in (including noscript, greasemonkey, ad blocker, etc.) and still is smaller, faster and more secure than Firefox.
Never have I seen more Kool-Aid slurping than in the Firefox camp (and I was an early loyalist), it's just insane. - stinkingfish, on 04/28/2008, -1/+16speed, and lower memory.
- mRku, on 04/28/2008, -0/+15bloat... but still the fastest? =)
- blackrave, on 04/28/2008, -4/+18Perhaps you should consider a divorce now, because Opera 9.5 rocks!
- bejayel, on 04/28/2008, -1/+15Browsing is all around better with opera for the most part. Its fast and the interface is simple. Mouse gestures (forward and back ones) will take a best guess of which link they should click and click it (and it does a damn fine job). Most sites i visit have a bunch of next links and finding (or clicking the right one) is stupid sometimes. Mouse gesture forward and i hit the next article page, even not in the cache. Its the little quirks like that that have made opera my default browser.
- inlove, on 04/28/2008, -17/+31Opera was my first love, but I decided to marry Firefox.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+15so what you're saying is firefox can get opera's features with extensions?
hmm… - peterandbeer, on 04/28/2008, -1/+15Ive tried previous installations of Opera and they operated pretty swiftly
- alpha19, on 04/28/2008, -0/+13As resources go up, footprints go up because "we can use more now!". When I have 9 tabs open in Firefox and it is using 200MB of memory... that is an issue for me.
- alpha19, on 04/28/2008, -1/+14I forgot to mention, Opera's mobile version is AMAZING. Try it! You will not be disappointed.
- alpha19, on 04/28/2008, -4/+17I'm still waiting for Opera to become as versatile as Firefox... so I can make the switch back. Firefox's memory hog issues can get annoying at times. This version could be promising and I think I'll try it.
- sixtus99, on 04/28/2008, -1/+13Anybody else have issues with Digg when using the back button? I love Opera, but every time I hit the back button, it just clears the ads on Digg one at a time until no ads are left. I have to hit the back button 3-4 times before it actually goes where I want it to.
- Terr01, on 04/28/2008, -0/+12What kind of bloat are you referring to?
I was under the impression Opera has both a smaller binary and does comparably or better on most benchmarks...? - AmazingAndrex, on 04/28/2008, -0/+12Horrible train of thought.
- benjorino, on 04/28/2008, -0/+11LOL @ IE7
- Spuy767, on 04/28/2008, -1/+12Yeah, just the other day I looked at a co worker's screen and said, "Oh, You decided to give opera a try?" It turned out to be a FF extension to emulate the speed-dial feature of Opera.
- Terr01, on 04/28/2008, -0/+10It is a rare Beta that doesn't.
- TenebrousX, on 04/28/2008, -0/+10Right click and scroll (and set it to cycle in tab bar order - CTRL+F12 > Advanced > Tabs)
- KibibyteBrain, on 04/28/2008, -1/+11But then when Firefox crashes hard, they say that its the extensions fault and not the browser, and not to use too many extensions...
Opera is great. Its the only browser on the Mac that doesn't have a mental breakdown every so often. If only more sites would support web standards, as Opera's weakness seems to be dealing with non-standard sites, which firefox copes with better. - StealthTomato, on 04/28/2008, -2/+11Yeah, but the thing is, you have to find the urlfilter.ini file and know the syntax; Firefox is more user-friendly.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a coder, so I'd be able to figure that out. But the general public would not. This is why Firefox is ready for general use and Opera is not. - thecosmicpope, on 04/28/2008, -1/+10It really is faster than IE and FF. Much faster. In terms of application loading times, and page viewing.
- Terr01, on 04/28/2008, -0/+9Tell that to my 233mhz box with 32mb of PC100 Ram where I can run Opera in FVWM :P
- Eywanadi, on 04/28/2008, -3/+12It has ad-block and has had ad-block forever. People really need to stop it with this comment.
1.Open the urlfilter.ini file
2.Add urls to the exclude list
3.Save file
All in all it takes about 30 seconds to have the same exact ad-blocking ability that firefox can have. - bejayel, on 04/28/2008, -0/+9Many of the firefox addons that most people use are being built into Opera. So you can run your firefox with a plethora of addons that increase the memory usage to well beyond what it should be, or you can use Opera with the toold built in and have faster execution times. That and firefox has yet to fix a few major javascript flaws that i have come across in my web development, even in the beta versions. click two buttons, one right after another, and firefox will show you whichever one finishes executing LAST where opera and IE both show you according to which button you clicked last, which is how it should be.
- TheWindBlows, on 04/28/2008, -2/+10AND it still supports Windows 98.
Opera has skins for it too i've noticed not many but some. - SSUK, on 04/28/2008, -0/+8Look, I swear to god I didn't know FF3 was underage!
- MikeCerm, on 04/28/2008, -7/+15I did, and it does. Out of the box, I'd say it is and has always been better than Firefox, but Firefox wins with it's flexibility.
- RyomaNagare, on 04/28/2008, -1/+9I've been using opera forever, and for our second honeymoon I discovered another great option.
Just add a web-panel with Gmail's mobile interface http://mail.google.com/mail/x/
and presto you've got your gmail with one click in a nice side-panel.
I just love opera - SSUK, on 04/28/2008, -0/+8Ironically "Faaaaaast" sounds like someone speaking rather slow...
- skyshock1, on 04/28/2008, -3/+11Opera 9: Right-click, block content.
There, done.
Want a pre-defined list? Download a host file that re-directs all the common ad URLs to 127.0.0.1 - StealthTomato, on 04/28/2008, -1/+9Safari is only fast ON A MAC, and that only BY COMPARISON to other apps ON A MAC.
Apple's argument is similar to a formula 1 race where only the hometown favorites were allowed to drive actual cars, forcing everyone else to shunt cardboard boxes around the track. Yeah, the hometown favorites are faster in that specific scenario, but only because artificial handicaps have been put in place. - Lazdude, on 04/28/2008, -1/+9Wow, I didn't realise the beta was twice as fast as version 9.
- AmazingAndrex, on 04/28/2008, -2/+9"having to continually click away from the "last active" tab after closing a tab seriously degrades the browsing experience."
That's only because you're used to Firefox, when you actually use Opera for a while it becomes second hand, making it much easier to switch between two tabs in a sea of others.
Besides you can tune that in the options menu anyways. - Avocadoes, on 04/28/2008, -2/+9Name me one thing IE7 can do that Opera (and Firefox too, for that matter, though I'm not that huge a fan) can't do better.
- mRku, on 04/28/2008, -2/+8"If Opera can offer me proper easy ad-blocking like Firefox does"
You mean "Right Click - Block Content"? Just try it here. Right click anywhere here and you'll get the blocker. - maninalift, on 04/28/2008, -0/+6Firefox lets you open recently closed tabs and retain tab history when you do so but not duplicating tabs and retaining history.
- madcat033, on 04/28/2008, -1/+7Opera FTW! I love Opera. And about the extensions stuff... Opera might not have as many as FireFox, but it pretty much has all the ones that I need already built in. If you want a million useless extensions, you should get FireFox.
- goldenratiophi, on 04/28/2008, -0/+6OBJECTION OVERRULED!
- PKO17, on 04/28/2008, -3/+9I'm a huge Opera fan but I'm not gonna type out all the usual arguments about Opera. All I'm gonna say is - when I set Opera to open all pages in tabs, it does. Firefox, on the otherhand, still likes to open new windows even after I set it to only use tabs. But hey, "use the browser that suits you", right?
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