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    Which is better? Mozilla or Opera?

    I am bored today, so I decided to give Mozilla Firebird a try. It seems nice, and it certainly loads faster than both IE and Opera, plus it also has support for tabbed browsing and mouse gestures. I did not have a chance to try its email client (I'm using the Firebird version, after all), but it seems to be as fast as Opera in terms of browsing and seems to be more compatible with each and every web page -- Opera has problems with some pages.

    All in all, I still prefer Opera, it seems to have more customizability options. Which is better for you? Mozilla or Opera?
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    That question is way too vague for a definite answer... but what I can say at this part that Opera having more customizability options is probably not quite true. Just have a look at the stuff at http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html . Mozilla Firebird is highly extensible. Oh, and unlike Opera, it's actually free...
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    • #3
      I haven't worked with Mozilla for a while now, but I'm content with Opera as it is, and don't feel like getting a third browser to be honest.

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      • #4
        I've never tried Mozilla, but I'm very happy with Opera.
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        • #5
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          Between only Opera and Mozilla, though, I would say Opera, but I've only had limited recent experience with Mozilla.
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          • #6
            intternet eksploorer 4!
            In da butt.
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            • #7
              Last time I tried Mozilla was months ago when it still looked like an ugly cousin of Netscape 5.

              I'm happy with my Opera 7.
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              • #8
                I just use IE though I do have Netscape installed on my computer at home. Is Opera or Mozilla actually that much better on a Win XP machine that I should look into it?
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                • #9
                  I don't know about Mozilla on WinXP (I'm using it at work, Win2000), but I use Opera at home (Win XP) and it is pretty good, fast and use less memory than IE.

                  One thing bothers me about Mozilla, though: when you go back one page, it tries to reload that page unnecessarily, just like IE (but it is faster than IE anyway). Opera displays that page immediately.
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                  • #10
                    And Mozilla seems to load images faster, or am I wrong?
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                    • #11
                      I keep myself up-to-date Mozilla wise and I definitely prefer Opera.

                      That question is way too vague for a definite answer... but what I can say at this part that Opera having more customizability options is probably not quite true. Just have a look at the stuff at http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html . Mozilla Firebird is highly extensible.

                      Uh huh. Can you make the tabbar vertical along the right side of the screen with a mouse-click? Can you move the address bar to the bottom of the screen with a mouse-click? Extensibility is nowhere near as important as built-in customizability.

                      My main beefs with Mozilla:
                      -closing a tab brings up an adjacent tab rather than the tab you were viewing before the current one. This might be fixable with MultiZilla or whatever it's called, but
                      -it's too easy to open a new browser window. New windows are only opened in Opera when you hit CTRL+ALT+N, but Mozilla seems to do it for every target=_new. I do not want to use context menus or modifier keys to get something to open in a tab
                      -Preferences is in the Tools/Edit menu rather than the File menu as Allah intended

                      You should seriously release a version with all of those extensions preinstalled. I am sure there are ones that add a Show Images button, but I have better things to do than make a browser I don't use have enough features to seduce me.

                      Oh, and unlike Opera, it's actually free...

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                      • #12
                        -Preferences is in the Tools/Edit menu rather than the File menu as Allah intended




                        But who needs menus when F12 or Alt+P will suffice.
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                        • #13
                          The windows version of Mozilla rocks!!!

                          Im running 1.3 now, and its fantastic. I tried all the major web browsers for *nix and windows, and I gotta say that this is the best, forgetting any OS wars, or arguments between proprietery vs GPL vs BSD, Mozilla is still the best. Genius piece of code!
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                          • #14
                            Mosaic!
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                            • #15
                              So you have like a real old OS ? I'm just asking, cuz that's how the site reads.
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