Opera works excellent in Win 7

[Vandrende Pind]

Hi guys.

I've had some problems with both IE8 and Chrome in Win 7. I've experienced frequent random crashes and pages that wont load or load slowly fx. in forums with loth of pics.

However Opera seems to works flawlessly. I haven't used Opera before, but it seems better than both Firefox, Chrome and IE8 from my point of view.

A heads up for you guys that use Win 7 and have problems with your browser.

[Solid004]

Opera rulez

[sykozis]

99.27% of internet users don't use Opera (they currently hold 0.73% of the browser market). Good reason for that too. It's never been a reliable browser. I've tried it several times over the years, and have always experienced crashes when dealing with javascript, java, flash, shockwave...eh, pretty well everything but html. They were the first to have tabbed browsing.....but in every version I've used, opening more than 2 tabs crashed the browser. I've tried it on Wi***, 98, ME, and XP....as well as 2K recently. I've found google chrome to be perfectly stable in Win7, as is IE8.

[Black_ice_Spain]

I was with firefox, but now with Opera10 + OperaFox "Skin" im totally pleased (im used to firefox skin so its better to adapt the software to you, than you to the software).

i surf a lot while gaming, and opera only consumes 10-20mb of ram while minimized, vs 100mb of firefox (multiple tabs -_-).

For me its working great, didnt have a crash yet in 3days, and also used it before, it was my first "non-mocosoft" web brwoser, and also didnt have problems.


holding 0.73% its also a good reason to use it, less unreliable webs or hackers trying to find and exploit your browser's security bugs =).

[Vandrende Pind]

I think its strange that we have different experience with the same browsers in the same OS. like sykozis, you find Chrome to be the most stable browser - For me its the most unstable (talking win 7 x64 - on xp it was stable).

Also, Opera has a better zoom feature since it zooms everything on the page, not text only.

[Finchwizard]

Well, considering it's a Beta OS, I'm surprised more don't have issues.

[John]

Opera is better no matter what OS you use it in

But honestly, I find it weird how you've had stability issues with it. I've used it for 9 years and it never crashes, and I have ALOT of tabs open at all times.

[sykozis]

I've talked to web dev's that are looking into writing scripts to block Opera from display their pages because of complaints of problems with Javascript and Flash. Their pages seem to work perfectly fine in FF, IE7/8 and Safari. Over the last 10 years, I've tried it several times and had nothing but problems from it. I had a script to disable right-click in IE that caused Opera to crash unless I included the script in the html file. I don't experience that problem with FF, IE or Safari. I've never done pages specifically for any browser, so I don't use browser detection scripts. I create the page, test it with FF...if it displays properly, I post it. After it's posted I go back and view it with IE and FF to ensure it still displays properly. As far as security....if it permits internet access, it's not secure. Simple concept. Computer is only as secure, as the user is intelligent. Having A/V software doesn't stop 100% of viruses from getting on your computer....Anti-Spyware software doesn't prevent 100% of spyware from getting on your computer...no web browser is going to inherently make your computer more secure. As long as your computer has internet access...it's at risk.

[Finchwizard]

It should be the opposite really.

Because of it's Standards, you can usually code it to appear correctly in Opera and Firefox and things way before IE.

IE is the last one you have issues with because of how it renders, and every version seems to get worse to code for.