Opera vs. Mozilla? weight in,

Firefox's name was changed in Debian to Iceweasel to enable deian to cusomise the package, something Mozilla did not allow. Ubuntu does not follow the trent, and because we are going to use ubuntu package repository sources for 64 Studio 3.0, firefox should stay firefox. I'll check out shiftweasel.

I am assuming that when the final for 64 studio 3.0 is released, it will be sportin the iceweasel browser correct? I recently have noticed a decline in speed with Opera 9.63 on this 64 studio alpha. I'm positive it's not the studio's fault. So I went looking about for browsers to experiment with. Stumbled on swiftfox/swiftweasel...WOW!! dramatic inprovement! If you use iceweasel/firefox try swiftfox. try swiftweasel. tell tell if you see a difference. I did a comparison and the load times and rendering times are noticeably different. the only browser that comes close and passes those speeds is Epiphany and Konqueror. Epiphany lacks features and konqueror is KDE... MiCK

after have tried iceweasel and getting it to mimic opera with a few extensions...almost a month later i went back to opera and now it is permanently my default browser. i too enjoy stable and foremost security...there there have been security issues with mozilla...(all fixed of coarse). if you enjoy speed, whether just surfing for pleasure or what, then try out opera.

I used Opera very early on, and later came to love mouse gestures and tabs. In the last few years I seem to have gravitated to Firefox/Iceweasel for most of my use. I keep multiple machines, and the 64studio one is rather dedicated to music. I do all of my casual browsing/docs/email on other ones. They are networked, so it's easy enough to transfer files or VNC/NX into another one to check email if I'm too lazy to leave the basement... I keep some of them bleeding edge, and update them constantly. I want 64studio to be stable, so I am also happy with it _not_ chasing the latest and greatest of everything.

any decent browser will do for me in a 64studio install. i'm not on the internet tons while running 64studio and when i am, it is for a very specific purpose (download a music file or program, etc), so i only need basic functionality. any of these browsers i think would do. weasel is familiar and has nice functionality, but it is really a bonus and in the end i don't care. i don't even have it set up and tweaked like i do firefox 3.0 for my ubuntu hardy install (main O/S).

Have got Iceweasel doing everything Opera does. With four key extensions and setting them up correctly I have Iceweasel doing what Opera does. (just an update)

I use the weasel on my 64studio box at home, and at work I use the fox where I can. IE only recently included the tabbed browsing feature... And they are not copying anyone of course... To tell the truth, never really tried Opera. Got on the Firefox wagon as soon as it started rolling. PS: It seems there is no Opera for linux AMD64 version available... That kills it for me right there :-(