Amaya or Opera

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Anyone used Amaya or Opera? Is either one a capable web browser?

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Everyone I know who’s tested Opera raves about it. Fast, clean, perfect.

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I’m a registered Opera 4 user and occasionally it falters on some java, shockwave and flash, etc., implementations. (Perhaps I’m not installed correctly, but I think I am.) For example it doesn’t show everything on Bolle’s (overdesigned) website, and I’ve had other problems. Otherwise, faster than a speeding bullet, more streamlined than a starving weasel, support facilities appear excellent but I haven’t tested them.

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I’ve been an Opera user since 3.61; it’s now at Version 5.01. Since I dispise anything MI$, but have to use them anyway, it’s a delight to have a non-IE browser. Opera is fast, small and continually improving. When it chokes on a page, it’s generally the fault of the page.

~LG

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“When it chokes on a page, it’s generally the fault of the page.”

I don’t use Opera but a co-worker does. Opera follows the w3c specs to a t. That’s both its blessing and its curse. Far too many web pages cater to IE since it’s the most popular. The page might work and look good in IE, but it doesn’t follow the W3c spec so Opera will choke on it.

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Opera 5.12 – chokes all the time. Not it’s fault maybe, but severly limits usefulness. chokes on hotmail, chokes on this lounge, chokes on MS knowledge base.

Can be very fast, but also, over my slow connection, has a habit of just hanging on a slowly loading page and not recovering.

Download manager also managed to stuff up a lot of files – abotu 10% in a recent extensive pdf download, compared to none for getright. I know getright’s a dedicated download manager, but the point is you REALLY need it for IE, which frequently hashes up downloads, and I hoped Opera would do away with it.

The way Opera saves web pages is also not as useful as IE, particularly if you subsequently want to move those files around.

Tried 5.12, may keep it as a second browser, but doesn’t free me from IE, unfortunately.

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Just started using Opera 5.1 (free version).

Good Points: It is a great Browser. Fast as advertised, and as well as anyone other than the designer can tell, handles the page rendering accurately. I prefer its version of MDI over IE and NS (especially with the tabs for switching windows.)

Bad Points: It seems to have problems posting in this Lounge. I have only been able to post successfully once. Either I get a page with SQL code, or I get an HTML page telling me I can’t post without a subject (even though there is a subject). It doesn’t seem to handle dowonloads that are based on ASP redirects. It wants to download the ASP itself rather than the file the ASP is pointed at. Also, it refuses to recognize your default mailto client. I use NS Messenger. IE and MAPI enable apps recognize it fine, but Opera insistes on using its own POP3 (no IMAP) client.

Pricing Irony: I originally downloaded Opera to use it on my under powered (i486-66, 80MB RAM, 1.6 GB HD) Linux machine. The linux version is crippled and lacks lots of features present in the Windows version, but the Windows version is free, and the Linux version still costs $40 US. Go figure.

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I registered version 3.something after about a week of use and it’s been my primary browser ever since. I get really aggravated when some glitchy web page that I need to see sends me back to one of the big (so big and so so slow) two.

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