Is Opera better than IE?

Hi all, I like to know from your experiences, why most people prefer Opera than IE? But IE already enough for me even though I'm always online about 10hrs per day, there's less trouble using IE. Friends of mine also recomm me to use Opera, he said opera is much secure browser and much features.

If most of you agree that Opera is better than IE, then maybe I will go for Opera or any others Web browser that you all recomm.

JohnHACK.

I recommedn Opera, less exploits, more feaures, built-in pop-up blocker....very nice browser. i've been using it for the past 2 months

opera makes ie look like garbage

the only time i use IE is after a format - and only then its to go and download the latest version of opera :)

v_Ln

Mozilla FireFox for me.


Or regular old Mozilla.... ;)


EDIT: I forgot Konqueror and Netscape (Linux)

I think it all depends on what you're looking for in a browser..
For some, it's speed.. for others it's flexibilty or security.

If speed is what concerns you, then test out your browser here.

http://www.squigly.com/performance

It might be nice for all of us to post results.. So here are mine for the picture file only.

and yeah don't laugh at me because I'm still on 56k :D

Firefox
Loaded 225455 Bytes in 103.510354042 seconds 17.42Kbps is your thruput

IE
Loaded 225455 Bytes in 76.2662968636 seconds 23.65Kbps is your thruput

opera
Loaded 225455 Bytes in 56.1922199726 seconds 32.1Kbps is your thruput

crazybrowser
Loaded 225455 Bytes in 57.7036011219 seconds 31.26Kbps is your thruput

myIE2
Loaded 225455 Bytes in 77.4087781906 seconds 23.3Kbps is your thruput

Opera wins..

(had to delete the pic from the cache to test myIE2 and crazybrowser correctly)

Yawn..... firefox all the way. One feature that opera has over IE is the multi tab feature so you can have like 20 pages open in one browser. I think IE is the only browser without this that i have used

JohnHack,

Well if you have the disk space available, download them both and you can take them for a test run yourself. I use all the browsers and have seven for windows and almost that many for linux.

cheers

Firefox > Opera :D

Hi jenjen...........

I got 0.888351 and 2030.32Kbps

?

Cheers

I am in IE at the moment, but I usually use Mozilla, and Opera as a fault finder....I really should buy a MAC to do proper site testing..............I cheat and get a mate to use his...buy him a couple of beers?

Cheers

Em...

Loaded 225455 Bytes in 23.8126268387 seconds
75.74Kbps is your thruput

nihil, You still the winner

Using IE

Loaded 225455 Bytes in 0.101586103439 seconds
17754.79Kbps is your thruput :D

You're supposed to clear your cache inbetween tests, AJBCoolman8 :p

Loaded 225455 Bytes in 1.75744605064 seconds
1026.28Kbps is your thruput

I'm still the loser.... :(

Mozilla: Loaded 225455 Bytes in 5.05038189888 seconds
357.13Kbps is your thruput

IE:Loaded 225455 Bytes in 9.33037805557 seconds
193.31Kbps is your thruput

Guys guys, you forget one thing. Each browser has a "wait time" in which it will halt displaying the received information.

Mozilla Firefox gets information as fast as any other browser out there, I mean, think about it. The browser is using your connection, this means all browsers will get the information at the same time. A few browers wait a moment or two before displaying so that they can display more at once, this way the user gets more of the page at once. No, I'm not talking about processing time either, as those differences are counted in millaseconds. I'm talking about the preference ability to say "hold information until the page is loaded to a certain %, or for a certain amount of seconds, so the browser can display more information at once"

That is merely personal preference, but in each browser that is changable. So the test doesn't prove anything execpt what setting you have for "how long/much information to wait for before displaying"

IE: Takes no time to cache before displaying
Opera: Takes a mere moment to collect information
Mozilla(fox): Takes a few moments, usually displaying the entire page at once.
etc.. etc..

As I said, this is not a test you can place for how good a browser is, as it is a configurable setting and not the true browser speed. On a side note, I hate Opera. Why? I refuse to pay for a browser, or have Ads in a free version. If I wanted that, I would be using AOL.

Opera :) IE :(....lol i love opera specially the pop-up blocker also more secure...hehehe plus there are cool skins for it :-p