Twice have I heard the argument now from friends that Opera use a lot of memory, and that this was a reason to prefer Firefox. Last time today. (Or well – yesterday, it’s late.) Now, I don’t mind anyone preferring Firefox over Opera, but as I was sitting next to him today, in front of the PC, I showed him how he could set the cache himself, easily. In Opera, he is in total control over how the cache is handled.
And I showed him how RSS worked – a feature he wasn’t aware of. And while he was shown the difference between how the two browsers treated RSS, he wasn’t too convinced – he didn’t think he’d use it anyway. Maybe.
But a major reason for him to stick with Firefox anyway, was due to pages not working in Opera. Not by any fault of Opera, but that didn’t help him. Especially since the web mail he was using wouldn’t work with Opera. It wasn’t the time to test if completely hiding Opera by masquerading could help, though (broadband from Lyse if anyone can test.)
Doesn’t sound like a positive post for Opera this, eh? But, I know that more and more designers are aware of the correct way to implement web sites (write for standard, the one hack for IE, instead of writing for IE and then many hacks for the other browsers. Most economically sound method, too) – even if there’s work to do to make everyone aware of this. Secondly, if I didn’t win him over, he is more positive to what Opera can do now than before we met.
