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  • 5.0 stars

    "Stable. Customizable. Efficiently set-up."

    May 31, 2012  |   By 7651form

    Pros

    Very Stable. I used to think that it had problems with flash (or rather that flash offered it no consideration), but I recently tried chrome for a period and i cant open 2 youtube videos without a crash, so perhaps it is ahead of the competition. I LITERALLY run 80-100 tabs at once and it doesn't even flinch. I'm not sure if I'm awesome or just a hoarder, but I always end up with a huge tab bar, that often consists of 5-10 pornographic videos in flash, 2-3 youtube videos, some streaming asnime, 20-30 wikipedia articles, all my emails, 4chan boards and miscellania.

    Cons

    PROS CONTINUED:

    Opening from previous sessions (a feature that opera has had for quite a while now, and the other browsers are just now catching on). It opens fast, with a hundred tabs in my previos sessions it takes, maybe, 45 seconds. When I have so many tabs I can set them horizontally, or even better, right-click and scroll to my latest viewed pages. The mouse gestures work great, always have. Everything is customizable. Like your reload button on the right side? Move it over there. The search feature is awesome and I have like 20 of them setup. I don't use bookmarks, so I cant really comment on that, but the search feature fills this role for me. Wanna look up nazis on wiki? Just type "w nazis" in the address bar. It's probably faster than bookmarks honestly. Setting one up is as easy as right clicking on the search bar of any website and choosing a hotkey for it.

    CONS:
    Updates automatically
    Lots of sites don't like to support it.

    Summary

    Best browser I have ever used. And yes I have tried the others. It doesn't take as much (or any) customization as people say. Indeed you just need to get over the bad design of Firefox and open yourself to efficiency.

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