Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:43:50 -0600 From: ajm <ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which version of Opera to use? Message-ID: <20070127194350.GA724@powerfull.bsd> In-Reply-To: <20070127155916.F86669@yokozuna.lan> References: <20070127091313.212E.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20070127155916.F86669@yokozuna.lan>
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 04:09:28PM +0100, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > On stardate Sat, 27 Jan 2007, the wise Gerard Seibert entered: > > > I have been thinking of trying Opera in KDE to see if it works better > > than Firefox. I have been having nothing but problems with Firefox and > > Flash. > > > > Would I be better off trying Opera or Linux-Opera? Both are offered in > > the ports. > > I'm using the native FreeBSD version with flash and that works great, so I > can only recommend it. Also in my case FF constantly crashed when opening a > site whith flash. Until recently only the linux-opera had flash support, > but now they both have. > > Marco > -- > I might have gone to West Point, but I was too proud to speak to a > congressman. > -- Will Rogers > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I have use both and if you need flash very often, I'd suggest linux-opera. It tends to handle flash video (google video) better. I currently have native opera. It just takes a few second longer to see the flash video. It does not bother me...but it may bother others. Try both ( one at a time ) and see the difference for yourself. note: I don't use KDE...don't know if that might make a difference in resource loads. -- Alexander FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386
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