Opera, Still the Best Browser?
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
I installed Internet Explorer 7 a week or two back, and primarily used to when browsing MSDN. It is a far cry from IE6 - tabbed browsing, better standards complaincy, built in feed reader and etc. One of the things that I liked is that the favourites/history/feeds pane floats by default, not disturbing the pages. Another advantage IE7 has over Firefox, is it can reopen closed tabs. When you close IE7, you’ll be prompted if you would like to reopen the tabs the next time you run IE7.
I also like IE7’s installation. When you first start, it’ll show you a list of search engines that you could add to it’s quick search box.
Nevertheless, like all other Microsoft’s newest products, it sucks up memory. To be precise, memory usage is OK, but, it pages a hell lot of stuff on disk: over 100MB! This wouldn’t come as a surprise to Firefox users, as it’s memory usage alone can easily go over 100MB. Here’s a screenshot of IE7’s memory usage, with just 5 tabs open (a few minutes of usage):
I’m not particularly woried about the high page file usage now. But when I migrate over to my laptop, excessive paging is slow! Why? Cause laptops only have 5400rpm hard drives..
All in all, I really have to say Opera 9 is the best “download-install-and-use” browser. Plenty of functionalities built in, simple user interface
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One Response to “Opera, Still the Best Browser?”
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bckk Says:
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:13 pmi agree with u.Although IE7 is convenient, it eats lots of memory,and also consuming battery life faster.
