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Foud CNET review ridiculous

I put my review here:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Opera_9/4852-9241_7-31929435-1.html?tag=nav

But I will repeat it here

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Frankly I cannot understand why this person could recommend the over hyped and memory hungry Firefox over Opera. He mantains that it's CNet choice nobody knows why (no link to his review). He points out false things like Opera not having the ability to show the history over the back button while that is not true. You just simply do not have to release the left button for one second and it will appear.

Let's say that the widgets sucks, so what? Do not use them and that's all. Firefox instead is a browser with rudimentary tab support which is light years behind Opera's and it is slower. There are "extensions" that give it this ability but either they are banned by Mozilla because they are super buggy, or the support they give is so basic that they are not so useful. Furthermore, the own users in the mozilla site refer that after uninstalling such extensions the browser gets faster and the CPU consumption drops. Vamosi says that he prefers Firefox because "it is more extensible" and that "for most people who simply want a good, secure browser ... we recommend Firefox 1.5" Wow, first he praises FireFox because it is more extensible but then he argues that it is better because is enough for people who want to surf the net securely. Opera is no less secure than Firefox and furthermore, without any stupid "extension" is more feature rich. In fact, even without any extension Firefox 1.5.x consumes more memory than Opera and is less flexible.


On the other hand, he says that "Unfortunately, there are few FAQs on the Opera site, and there is no telephone support.". Since when Mozilla offers telephone support? What do you want in your "FAQ" Mr Vamosi?? Is there anything special you need to know? Information about Opera is everywhere and you can answer any question you may have. True, having a FAQ with myriad Q&As will be nice, though it is not a reason to dismiss this browser. He does not say, that in the current Opera FAQs he could not find an answer to this, this and this thing. He says there are "few" of them, he does not say any specific.

Most funny thing is that these people have always something to complain about. If Opera has too many options, it is confusing for the user. If it does not have full support for such and such W3C standard, is bad. Now, Opera supports every useful standard out there and the interface is clean and user friendly (under their stupid standards, because I always found it very intuitive). So they never run out of excuses. The last excuse is that Opera is more for the "technically adventurous". What a crap. The fact is Opera is far better than FireFox and IE and some people refuse to recognize this. Why? It is a mistery. However there are some indicators. I guess they think that Opera is not the rival that can beat IE or something similar. Wait a second! It is not Open Source! What a sin! How is it possible that a non Open source product kicked the ass of one that took several years to complete! So what? Out of the box is the best browser right now Period.

I can even swear that if Opera tomorrow releases a version that allows FireFox extensions to install in it Mr Vamosi and the other crowd will make another excuse. Give me a break! CNET: hire a competent editor and not an ignorant and biased person

Note: I do not give it a 10 because CNET warned several times that it will be very difficult to have that rating, so in order to stop its complain, I assigned 9
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Posted by: markbn   Posted on: 06/20/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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