Quentin said:So I hear Opera is über-fast compared to FireFox. Is this true? I've been refusing to try Opera so far simply because I find the name lame.
No. It's faster, especially on older sytems, but I find Firefox to be quite fast to start with, I don't think it's possible to design something that goes a huge amount faster than it.
And yes, for anyone who cares, I've tried processor optimized builds for FF, Opera's still faster for most things.
Some of the difference in size and speed come from the fact that FF is open-sourced, so they try and keep the code accesible to less experienced programmers. The Opera coders don't have to do this, so they can suplement their C++ code with assembly to optimize the program further.