So I installed Opera and am going to try using it as my default browser. I've heard that it's faster... I've heard that it's slower... I've noticed that it's not very popular on Digg. (So that probably means I'll love it.) But I decided to give it a shot for a few days and see if I run into anything that's really horrible. So far, I'm enjoying it immensely!

I compared page loading times on a few sites, Firefox and Opera side by side, and there seems to be no difference between the two at all. (Except right now, I've noticed there's some screwiness with word wrapping in Wordpress when I use dashes... like saying "side-by-side". Weird.) Like I said, I'll give it a shot and see how good it is.

I actually installed Safari just now, too, to see how my site looks on that thing. Seemed to show up well enough. It took its precious time installing, though, and it's got that brilliant Apple GUI design where you can only resize a window from the lower-right corner of the window, hoho. There were the usual rendering errors, though, but oh well. If you use Safari, you're probably used to seeing that all over by now. Ziiiing! Opera, though, shows my site just as perfectly as Firefox. IE7 has got a bit of header issues, though. Some of the text is far bigger than it needs to be. Probably something with my CSS that I'll have to check into sometime.

At least with Opera, I can see exactly how things will show up on the Wii! Yay! Man, this is weird, because I remember using Opera back around 6 years ago... They actually had ad banners written into their user interface, it was THAT bad.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 18th, 2007 at 3:50 pm and is filed under General.