Which New Browser Is Best: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, or Opera 9?

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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1990858,00.asp

nice article about the newest browsers 8)

have a good one avast! world ::slight_smile:

thanks bob3160 and davidr :smiley:

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Excellent article.
Finaly a review not tainted by personal preferences. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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Because you have 28 carriage returns at the end of the text, delete these and it will be gone like this quote.

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Yep … nice review of those 3 browsers. :slight_smile:

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Seems to be a honest appraisal of the 3 browsers I particularly like this

These are all fine apps; we recommend you give them each a spin—it's a free download, after all—and stick with the one you find the [b]most comfortable[/b]
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There are two things i don’t like about this review, mostly about Opera.

Download resuming is the first thing. Firefox will rarely properly resume anything. It will just start from beginning. IE7 doesn’t even have that, while Opera can resume downloads almost on all servers if they only support download resuming. Stop/Resume is basically not what it says but more like Pause/Resume. Just a terminology “glitch”.

Second thing is memory usage which is the highest in test.
Memory is there to serve the program, not to be unused 99% of the time.
Plus Opera at least utilizes it extremelly well for it’s cache and regular operations. Firefox gets fat pretty fast plus it’s opening tabs like a 120 years old turtle. If you want to limit it, go to History page and change from Automatic to some fixed lower value. This also depends a lot on how much RAM you have total. Programs tend to use more memory if you have 1,5GB or 2GB of RAM than when you have just 512MB. If they do this they are certanly programmed well to utilizy more memory and achieve higher speeds and better response timings.