Browsers Opera vs Firefox vs IE7

[rob4001]

I notice for me although I like firefox it does crash from time to time, so was wondering what people thought the best browser is and which one's you use.

[BUFF]

Opera ftw!

[MadduckUK]

this thread needs a poll

firefox btw

[BUFF]

[Dreaming]

In my experience:

Opera is fast and if I wanted a small client it would opera. However, for all the stuff I do (well, nothing professional, just check loads of websites and like plugins for certain stuff I can barely remember now) firefox is the only one I can cope with.

I have set ie's homepage to quicksilverscreen.com and use it solely to watch streaming media on, since that website can sometimes crash browsers which can be annoying if you've got something important up.

[peterb]

I use Opera under Linux, but find it is a bit of a memory hog - and can sometimes be a bit slow (but perhaps that is because I have 30 or more tabs open!), but generally I use both.

[matty-hodgson]

firefox, i hate IE because of all its useless crap!
and the way that it tries to stop you setting things away from Windows live services..

and Firefox take less time to open and doesn't crash everytime you open a tab!

[hse180]

I prefer Opera, but i use Firefox to.

[TheAnimus]

what evers on the box normally, they're all much of a muchness. Opera has some nice features (mouse gestures).

They all have rendering bugs, all take too much RAM + CPU.

At home its IE7, because its considerably faster i've found (also have no difficulty setting things away from live services, it asks you when you first start and its back to el google).

[Flibb]

Have opera FF and IE7 installed, tend to use IE7 most of the time with spell checking and mouse gestures

[Giraffe]

I use Opera under Linux, but find it is a bit of a memory hog - and can sometimes be a bit slow (but perhaps that is because I have 30 or more tabs open!), but generally I use both.

Opera will use RAM as available as that speeds up pages when going back and forth.
If the RAM is lower then Opera uses less - I had to go down to 512MB and checked. The memory used was less and, after some browsing and about 10 tabs open, Opera was noticeably slower.
Now I'm on 1G again...!

There's no point in having RAM just sitting there doing nowt.

[dangel]

I used to use Opera on linux on the eee (because FF was too slow and crashed).

I've used Opera for years on Windows - I just find it less hassle, faster and easier on resources than FF (not that I don't like FF it's a decent browser). I can't stand IE7 at all.

Incidentally, I use Opera@USB - which is portable.

[peterb]

There's no point in having RAM just sitting there doing nowt.

Agrreed - just seemed to me that Opera was more resource intensive than FF (although other shave found the reverse.

The thing I REALLY hate about IE is the way it defaults to the MS search engine when it can't find a URL! (But then that is typical of MS in general - there are two ways to do things - the way MS wants you to do them, or the hard way)

[Raz316]

I get the same issues with opera on linux too. So it's Firefox in Linux and Opera when using windows.

[0iD]

Opera on Windoze & Linux

[godsdog]

Firefox or K-Meleon. I fell out with Opera.