Opera 3.0 released

Jeremiah Cruit-Salzberg jeremiah at spl.org
Fri Jan 9 12:08:29 EST 1998


My experience with Opera 3.0 on an NT platform was that it slowed my
system down to a crawl.  I tried browsing my hard drive with it open and
things were slow, with it closed they were fast, with ie4.0 open it was
fast, and with Netscape it was fast.   What was fast with Opera open was
web browsing which was fantastic.  With the porting of the bookmarks it
makes a great tool when you only want to browse the web.

NOTE:  Just one case experience, the slowness only happened on my
machine with Outlook and Access open running on an NT BDC Server.  With
either Netscape or IE open under the same circumstances everything
worked faster than with Opera open.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike McGuire [SMTP:mike at tcnet.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 08, 1998 9:10 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: Opera 3.0 released
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Shirl Kennedy wrote:
> > From: Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
> 
> <a bunch of stuff snipped>
> 
> I've been using Opera 2.12 for some time now. It's different and takes
> only a small learning curve.
> 
> Just got done upgrading to 3.0 and the first thing I did was turn off
> frames. The second was to disable scripts (like java). And then the
> third
> thing I did was notice that it grabbed my favorites from MSIE and
> Netscape
> and ported them over to Opera. 
> 
> Anyway, it's still my browser of choice. Small overhead, easy to use,
> cheap.
> 
> It's certainly worth taking a look at at www.operasofware.com
> considering
> there's a 30-day trial on the full-featured version.
> 
> Mike McGuire
> Library Director
> Network Administrator


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