Posts Tagged ‘Opera’

Over at Lifehacker, they do some  browser speed tests now and again, and I thought the results worthy to share with you guys. The subjects of this round were Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4 and Opera 10.5. In some areas you’ll find surprising results, especially in javascript use (Opera wins by a mile), and memory usage with extensions, which is won by Firefox.

Since I’ve been using Firefox for 10 minutes with about 6 tabs, and its eating away at half a Gb of memory, I find that hard to accept. I might have a really badly written extensions somewhere I guess, but compared to a lot of people, I hardly use any extensions at all.

To be completely honest, until now, I didn’t really care about browser speed tests because Firefox was just so ahead of the game, that the features it offered far surpassed any speed problems. Even if you had to reboot, or restart Firefox every hour, it was still worth it for your productivity. However, nowadays that Chrome is right behind Firefox (Opera is fine as well, I just never really made a connection to it) I just might change browsers for speed reasons.

For the complete list of comparisons, along with nice bar charts, take a look at the full post on Lifehacker.

The new Opera 9.6 is out, so you might want to give it a whirl. I haven’t tried it yet, but as soon as I get a chance too I will. I’m hoping the speed enhancements are visible and I’m eager to give Opera Mail another go. Get the latest version from the Opera website.

As my friend Karl points out on Make Use Of, some of us are indeed not normal, and that’s the way (aha aha) we like it. His quick tutorial shows you a great productivity method of opening two separate versions of Outlook at the same time. If you need to quickly switch between two exchange servers, you’ve just struck golf. Find out how to do this on Make Use Of.

If you work on a lot of web projects on your site, you know you have to spell check, spell check and spell check. Nothing looks more unprofessional, and sadly, still very few take the time to go through their sites. Please don’t laugh, I know I probably have about a million, but I can just say that this is my own dialect! Take a look at Spellist, a website which takes your site and scans it for all mistakes it can find. It’s not the prettiest site, but it’s simple and fast, a great tool for webmasters out there. Thanks to Teknobnites for the find!

Gmail Labs has unrolled a new feature, called mail goggles. It’s a small feature that has you solve some math problems before it sends your email at times you specify. This is so that you don’t send emails late at night for example that you might regret later. Personally, I think this is a bit stupid, and for me it wouldn’t really work. However, some of you might find that it increases your productivity by NOT letting you do something!