Opera Browser

* This only applies to Ubuntu Linux!

I just love the speed of Opera browser. That’s the reason why I was hoping that it could replace buggy Firefox as the browser of my choice. I still use Firefox for Firebug, but hate the fact that it’s so unstable.

After playing with Opera for few days, I found out why it was so much faster than Firefox. It’s faster because nothing works! It just renders HTML and can’t do anything else we got used to such as audio, video, and Flash. It does have useless and irritating widgets feature. BUT, it’s fast if the bandwidth isn’t a factor.

However, it’s not all bad. I learned a valuable lesson from Opera. It dawned on me that in order to make my apps faster, all I have to do is start removing features and kill anything that consumes CPU and memory resource. That’s in line with keeping things simple.

March 1, 2008 | Filed Under Rant

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