Comments on: Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Firefox 3.6 vs. Chrome 4 vs. Safari 4

By: Somebody

Somebody — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:37:17 +0000

Opera does have a very good Adblock which i find to be quite sufficient for my requirements :

http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

By: Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:45:43 +0000

Last time I checked, Opera didn’t have a good ad blocker. In fact, neither does Google Chrome. That, and because Firefox is still the kind of extensions, is why Firefox is primary browser. That, and I never feel like learning how to use Opera. I’m just super lazy.

By: Brabant

Brabant — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:38:09 +0000

Yawn. Same old pissing contest. Latest version of Opera DOES beat chrome etc. on sunspider and peacekeeper. Unlike chrome etc. it also has a shedload of useful browser features and best security as well.

Acid test IS important in the real world. Otherwise why would so many sites/reviewers cite it as a reference?

Probably a lot of people are shitting their pants right now as very soon Opera is about to get a lot of press and users.

By: unkown

unkown — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:30:39 +0000

Beets Opera?
Thats funny, because the last time I checked, the latest (test) version of Opera beats google chrome..

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:51:00 +0000

Let’s pray that IE9 includes support for SVG and APNG formats.

By: nobody

nobody — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:20:52 +0000

“Sorry to have to break it to you, but you can optimize a site specifically for any browser. I just used Firefox as an example.”

no, you cant do it for opera – because opera lacks serious developer tools. opera’ own site breaks in opera from time to time, especialy after big upgrades. lack of developer tools hurt opera very badly and is sole reason why webdevelopers arent giving a damn about opera.

all other browsers have their tools, firebug is this what made firefox so popular – it is because of firebug that firefox became webdevelopers tool. and webdevelopers will always make their page work in tool that they use first. there is no way to do any serious work with opera’ tools. thats the truth, and using lies and verbal abuse you are not going to change it.

By: nobody

nobody — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:17:56 +0000

dear Thoe, youve got caught with your own confusion – too many nicknames so little mental abilities to track them you have

you are refering to yourself as “HE”.. thats hillarious slip

By: cousin333

cousin333 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:11:12 +0000

That’s because web designers don’t have the luxury of leaving out the 2/3 of users (IE users). That’s why standard compliance AND standard support is very important in IE. Because if it doesn’t support, the developers won’t do it also.

Look at SVG! Opera has the best support, the others are fine, IE has no support at all (except the very old Adobe plugin)! And lo, you don’t see many pages with SVG around (just look at some Wikipedia pictures: in IE, they are converted to png, so you can see them). If many developer would start to use it, IE users would experience the incapability of their browser. Or APNG. Or MathML. Or…

So IE is not the most compatible because it is a very good product but because it’s the most widely used.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:05:55 +0000

IMHO: Ok, even if consider that EI9 sounds promising, by the time it would be launched, others gone far ahead(for example partially substitute OS functions etc).

By: Eice

Eice — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:38:59 +0000

Yep, hypothetical. You’re just hiding and dodging and desperately scrambling to find an excuse for from the unpleasant and inconvenient truth that, despite WebKit/Opera’s 100/100 Acid3 score, it’s IE and Firefox that web pages with with the most.