opera vs ie

Well its been a few weeks since I installed opera. I have been on holiday for one of those weeks so really this is only my initial thoughts. not looking good for opera though 😉

Opera is quick to launch 🙂 and ctrl-enter to select your login is a godsend but.. it seems speed isnt everything I thought it might be!

  1. flickr doesnt work – you would have thought this would have been an important site to get working as I reckon those people who use Opera are much more likely to use Flickr than the general public.
  2. my stock site doesnt like it though with some fiddling, I now have it working 🙂
  3. there arent any of the cool plugins you get for firefox
  4. the interface just feels weird – though I guess I might get used to it 🙂 especially the home button being hidden in the address bar.
  5. Outlook Web Access doesnt work right (looks the same as Firefox)
  6. It feels slower generating websites – they build up in front of you whereas IE just displays them.. I wonder if IE is actualy slower but that instant display just gives instant gratification 🙂

All in all I am using IE more still than I am using Opera – even though Opera is currently set as my default.

If only Firefox was as quick as Opera 🙁

Oh and I still dont like tabs – I guess I am going to have to get used to them 😮

Riaz Kanani

Founder of Radiate B2B, which helps companies target advertising at specific companies usually as part of an account based marketing programme.

I have spent almost two decades building startups or expanding fast growth companies in a variety of functions - from tech to operations to marketing, with a little corp dev on the side.

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