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[giraffe]

Tried Orca. Has some good things but I prefer Sleipnir for my limited use of an alternative browser.

Orca, during installation, mention Avant at one point - a bit worrying, as Avant is a front end for IE.

It asked if should be default browser; I answered 'NO'. After I uninstalled it, some links from other apps. opened IE (didn't get out as I have set Comodo to block IE from the internet) so I started Opera and was asked if I wanted opera to be my default - answer 'YES!!!'

[V7chy]

I tried Orca Browser more today and it’s not for me ... it’s about the same as FF 3.0


V7chy

[Kyle]

Just use Opera and be done with it! 

[TheRyan95]

Finally some people have voted on the other browser besides the major ones. Not impressed, but "under"stating the statement 

[giraffe]

BTW, should have posted this a couple of days ago: there's a build on Opera Labs that's a few up from the current 9.62 (it's 10469) and one of "Opera 9.62 Video, 3D canvas and File I/O preview builds". Been running it for about 3 days and it seems OK.

http://labs.opera.com/downloads/

[LeoniAquila]

I feel that Opera 9.62 crashes a little too often, at least every week once or maybe twice. Also, Gmail isn't displayed 100% properly. Many users have Gmail, why can't Opera fix it? Or am I alone? There are minor GUI flaws like ugly frames around text box areas (when writing emails), and row breaks aren't made as one would expect.



Still I could never switch to anything else. At least not today.



LA

[giraffe]

Haven't had it crashing (except on the 'odd' site that's borked anyway). Does seem to load some sites apparently completely then hang at the last bit - clicking the stop button works, though.

[TheRyan95]

Well, i do admit that Opera 9.62 is a little bit buggy, i just switched to 64-bit WIndows Vista 5 days ago (forgot to announce), and Opera 9.62 only crashed once and it was because of Comodo Registry Cleaner ( i usually close my programs first, but i forgot) o.O, unless arguments proves otherwise, i think Opera is more stable on 64-bit.

Maybe until the next release fixing the bugs

[weaker]

Running 8.62 in XP SP3 and it did never crash on me.

[LeoniAquila]

Running 8.62 in XP SP3 and it did never crash on me.

I guess you mean 9.62?

LA

[V7chy]

Opera 10.0 Alpha 1 out!! 

Quote from Opera blog:

It seems like yesterday we released Opera 9.6 and now you can all get your hands on Opera 10.0. Rather than ramble on, here's a quick list of what's new:


* Presto 2.2 Engine
* Performance boost
* 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
* Auto-update
* Inline spelling checker
* Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete after X days
* Widget Improvements on Linux

Can't wait to get your hands on Opera 10.0 Alpha 1, then get it now

What's New
Below is an overview of the new functionality in Opera 10.0 Alpha 1.

Presto 2.2 Engine

Opera 10.0 Alpha 1 includes Presto 2.2 (Kestrel includes Presto 2.1.1), an updated version of Opera's Core. Presto 2.2 features numerous new features and loads of bug fixes, such as:


* 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
* New regular expression engine, which greatly improves performance
* Improved CSS performance
* Pretty-printing of unstyled XML
* Web font support
* RGBA and HSLA support
* Selectors API support

Download:
http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o100a1_1139m.exe

Source: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/12/03/peregrine-takes-flight-opera-10-0-alpha-is-here


V7chy

[giraffe]

dang! Beat me to it. Just d/l it and coming here to post the link.

Now for some fun - remember what can happen when a fledgling jumps out of the nest!

[weaker]

[at]LA: Of course 9.62 just a typo. Now 10 preview :-)

[Japo]

I feel that Opera 9.62 crashes a little too often,

Some bugs have crept since the transition from 9.2x to 9.5x, although things have improved somewhat since then, specially a mail indexing bug that got fixed. It must be that they're changing so fast, first the old stable 9.2x was rushed to 9.5x then to 9.6x now to 10.xx. I reckon this is the milestone they want to reach, and things will stabilize soon...

[JoWa]

I feel that Opera 9.62 crashes a little too often, at least every week once or maybe twice.

My Opera 9.62 never crashes…

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