Comments on: MyIE2 (Maxthon) versus Opera: A Review of the IE wrapper

By: Twink

Twink — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:58:18 +0000

Found this link while searching Google, thanks

By: jkue

jkue — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:32:58 +0000

“I’m looking to make my computer more secure, so I’m switching to Opera. However, I’m wondering if I’m still vulnerable to worms and viruses through IE software that is not actively running, but still loaded on my hard drive.”

No you can’t.

By: Piperdog

Piperdog — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:58:31 +0000

Valuable information for choosing a browser. Thanks!!!

I’m looking to make my computer more secure, so I’m switching to Opera. However, I’m wondering if I’m still vulnerable to worms and viruses through IE software that is not actively running, but still loaded on my hard drive.

Thanks.

By: Clarifier

Clarifier — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:02:33 +0000

Opera has “URL aliases”: simply enter a word in the Nickname field when creating a bookmark. Enter the same word in the address field to open
the bookmarked URL.

Opera’s wand can remember multiple usernames and passwords for the same site.

Opera is available in multiple languages, and one can create other translations – details: http://my.opera.com/community/customize/langs/

Opera supports Netscape compatible plugins / Java applets invoked by web pages, custom skins, custom sidebars, and bookmarklets. Unlike MyIE2, Opera does not support other user interface extending plugins.

By: Chris Smith

Chris Smith — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 02:19:56 +0000

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By: sniptools

sniptools — Sat, 29 May 2004 17:14:11 +0000

Hi Warren, thanks for posting. For Linux, I’d recommend Opera (as usual) or Firefox (Mozilla’s light weight version) which does some pretty fancy password remembering as well. Cheers, Shashank

By: Warren

Warren — Sat, 29 May 2004 17:01:25 +0000

I have a 21 inch monitor and work in healtcare, and it is normal to have 12-20 windows open and running at any given time. I tile them and expand when I need them. At the end of the day, I just close the browser, and in the morning open all of them simultaneously. Curiously, I have no problems with crashing with my Opera. I had run the Avant browser prior to this, and I prefer either to anything that IE has for me. The Wand functions perfectly, and as nearly all my sites have passwords, this is an extremely useful feature. I still have IE available for the odd website that Opera has problems with, but these are rare. I am looking to Unix/Linux for my next home system, and am curious as to browsers available. Any suggestions??

By: mangle

mangle — Mon, 17 May 2004 22:00:45 +0000

Oh and while we are at it here is the 589,653th reason you should stay at an arm's length from IE: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/mhtmlredir.exploit.html

By: mangle

mangle — Mon, 17 May 2004 17:07:01 +0000

Great article but the thing about Mozilla Firefox is that it NEVER crashes like Opera or IE. Go figure!

By: sniptools

sniptools — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:35:05 +0000

Hi Micke, Thanks for the note. I find Opera 6.x and 7.x to be equally fast in speed, I change them to a simple skin with “IE6″ theme. No animations etc. So the interface is faster. The most important factor is the speed of the downloads though, and that is sgnificantly faster than either Mozilla (and gang) or IE engines.

As for your second point, “show cached images only,” it may or may not be a useful feature for everyone, but I can see why you like it! I have a CSS file which just gets rid of all images on the page, I use it for totally ad-ridden sites where I am only interested in the content.