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Opera Mini works great from my mobile phone, and practically ANY mobile phone can run it, it just runs under Java application and it surfs any website great, plus it's free unlike most Cell phone applications.



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Now this is interesting,

Which Browser is better? (Not market share):

 



SamuelRSmith said:

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8030/acidcomparisondk5.jpg

Acid comparison, look at that and you'll learn why Fx and IE just don't cut it.

The versions I used:

Opera: 9.23
Firefox: 2.0.0.6
Internet Explorer: 7.0.6000.16546
Safari: 3.0.3

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#winspeed

Speed test for Windows browsers, green is the fastest time... guess who's all green?

 

But it's not open source.

I use Iceweasel because Firefox isn't either.


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SamuelRSmith said:

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8030/acidcomparisondk5.jpg

Acid comparison, look at that and you'll learn why Fx and IE just don't cut it.

The versions I used:

Opera: 9.23
Firefox: 2.0.0.6
Internet Explorer: 7.0.6000.16546
Safari: 3.0.3

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#winspeed

Speed test for Windows browsers, green is the fastest time... guess who's all green?

meaningless (Acid2 compatibility). Opera just went and fixed the problems they had. Same with Safari. That doesn't make Opera more standards compliant than Firefox. For example:

I take a random sample of 1000 Japanese people and find that 30% of them have a DS, and 10% of them have a PSP. Now Sony goes and gives all 1000 of those people a PSP, so that when I sample them again, 100% have a PSP. Is PSP more popular?

This is the same situation. Retroactively fixing the browser to give perfect rendering does not mean you have better CSS standards than the other browser, as only a very small subset is tested. More important is how well a browser built before Acid2 renders it. And I can't find any reference images for Opera at that time. Although of course, this doesn't show current compliance, it does show how they stacked up at that point.

Also, Firefox 3 renders Acid2 perfectly, by the way.

 



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For Japanese learners, FireFox is the way to go (because of Rikaichan).



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omgwtfbbq - what do you have to say about them speed tests?



Firefox is da bomb, but it could be more compatible with Windows in some areas. Netscape Navigator is by far the worst and most unstable, aside from Explorer of course.



This is actually a pretty big shift away from IE. No longer is it at 90-95% or more. Now sites can't just code to IE and must use web standards if they want the largest audience.

FF will only keep growing in popularity. Tech sites have an even higher percentage.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp



ArtofAngels said:

Now this is interesting,

Which Browser is better? (Not market share):

 


I'm impressed at how well Opera did in the rankings considering how few people know about it, considering it gets far less press coverage than Firefox



 

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ArtofAngels said:

Now this is interesting,

Which Browser is better? (Not market share):

 


 

Remember, many people are forced to use IE at school or work, but would perhaps prefer to use alternatives. (I installed Firefox against the rules on my school computer.)

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