At work, I am required=
\n to access a secure web site to use services purchased by my employer fo=
\nr the conduct of business. No choice about it (but no problem, in my mi=
\nnd). However, a number of events chain together to preclude my using Op=
\nera to do so. First, at work I am behind a corporate firewall which is =
\nnotoriously slow. It is so slow that colleagues who use primarily Micro=
\nsoft Internet Explorer complain about how slow the firewall is. Next –=
\n and this is partly hunch on my part — my employer does not purchase su=
\nfficient bandwidth from the services company. During the work day, resp=
\nonse from the secure server is excruciatingly delayed. In evening usage=
\n and during the weekend it is noticeably much faster. (By comparison, o=
\nn the side I do some free lance work for another outfit which uses the s=
\name secure server, and it is nowhere near as slow in responding for them=
\n. I think — it makes sense — that the service company sells various b=
\nandwidths of access at different pricing levels. My employer just does =
\nnot pay for enough bandwidth.<\/p>\n
Opera is a very secure web browse=
\nr. As such, when connecting to secure web pages it demands a response w=
\nithin a certain, very limited, time frame. At work, behind the firewall=
\n, and during the normal business day, the combination of our slow firewa=
\nll and overloaded secure server means I simply CANNOT<\/i> use Opera t=
\no access this system. In frustration, I turn to Chrome to get my work d=
\none. In the evenings, or any time I am not physically at work, the secu=
\nre server responds to Opera. Sometimes it requires two or three "r=
\neloads" to get the page fully loaded, but it works.<\/p>\n
I thin=
\nk Opera needs to provide in the Tools section a site-specific alternativ=
\ne to allow more time lag for a known, slow server. While I admit this i=
\ns less safe, the only choice is to use a different browser which is on t=
\nhe whole much less safe. I don't have any choice to not use the se=
\nrvice — my employer mandates it.<\/p>\n
In this scenario, I have buil=
\nt up a list of "reasons I prefer Opera over Chrome." Here the=
\ny are:<\/p>\n
(1) Chrome fails pretty quick to the mouse, then keyboar=
\nd, then mouse, then keyboard … form of data entry. I have a secure we=
\nb page which I must use for my employer. And, I have two user ID's =
\n(for perfectly legitimate reasons) on this server, and Chrome does not s=
\ntore passwords for a web site in which two different user ID's are e=
\nntered. Although we can see the safety implications here, Opera gives m=
\ne the choice whereas Chrome does not.<\/p>\n
(2) On many web pages one=
\n can "tab" to the next element or form entry field. On one sy=
\nstem I frequently use, Opera at the main page requires 3 <TAB> key=
\nstrokes to get the first place. On that same page, one day I tried tabb=
\ning in Chrome. 23 <TAB> keystrokes later, I was not there yet.
(3) Opera's web browsing history seems to work much better fo=
\nr me. When I attempt to return to a URL that I have visited before or w=
\nhich is in my bookmarks file, the Opera URL auto-complete just works bet=
\nter than the Chrome auto-complete.<\/p>\n
(4) In Opera, one can open a=
\n "new URL" box with a keystroke of <F2>. If there is su=
\nch a keyboard shortcut in Chrome, I can't find it. Even if one has =
\nthe time and patience enough to <TAB> until you get to the URL box=
\n in Chrome, when you do the cursor is placed before the leading characte=
\nr. In Opera the entire present entry is highlighted and all you need do=
\n is begin typing the new URL. In Chrome, you have to <CTRL>-A to =
\nselect all first before typing the new URL. If you don't the new ch=
\naracters are just prepended before the existing entry.<\/p>\n
(5) In O=
\npera you can customize the speed dial page. In particular, you can ente=
\nr the specific web sites you wish to have pre-fetched. Chrome puts the =
\nmost highly visited web sites in speed dial and you cannot change them (=
\nthat I know of).<\/p>\n
(6) Downloads work better in Opera. When I ne= What, you might ask? are there no other cho= If you have any other reasons why Opera out-performs Chrome, p=
\ned to download a document (e.g,. a DOC, CSV, MP3 file, etc.) in Opera I =
\nhave the choice of downloading and saving it in a directory of my choosi=
\nng, opening the file with the installed default application, or opening =
\nit with a new application. Chrome gives no such options. Documents ret=
\nrieved from a web site are first of all downloaded into the Download fol=
\nder. (By default, Opera downloads them into a temp folder which is eras=
\ned automatically, but you have to clean out the Download folder in Chrom=
\ne manually.) Then, if you want to open the document, you can do so.
(7) Opera gives the choice to open in a new tab or open in a backg=
\nround tab. The difference is whether the focus goes to the new tab or s=
\ntays with the current one. Chrome only permits open in a new tab, but t=
\nhen it really is a background tab (in the sense that the focus remains i=
\nn the current tab).<\/p>\n
\nices? Sure, most everyone at work uses Firefox but Firefox is waaaaayyy=
\ny slower than either Opera or Chrome. And, some folks still prefer to u=
\nse Internet Explorer, since, as they point out, the boss pays them by th=
\ne hour taking much longer to get things done is to their advantage. \ud83d\ude09 =<\/p>\n
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