I was very excited by the launch of the new Opera and like some other users here I am now very disappointed by the browser. Will download version 9.51 but still... Why ? Because it is not faster than Firefox as said. May be it is faster when viewing (javascript) but when it is about loading a webpage, Firefox is the winner.
Bought a new laptop last week and installed Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.0. My wife wanted to browse the Internet, I told her "Just use Opera, it is much better", so she opened two tabs and typed the URLs. And waited, waited and waited (i have a very slow Internet connection)...
She told me "That's odd, there are no indication or sign saying that it is working". So I said "It is working, it is just a slow connection, that's it".
After 4 minutes, she decided to open Firefox, type the two URLs and bam, within a minute, both pages were loading... Opera was just hanging.
And had the same experience today, Opera is hanging telling me he can't connect to the http while Firefox is loading very fast.
