Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Opera Vs Chrome

Well Well, Here I go. 

I have been using Mozilla for as long as I remember. I love that thing. Its just simply great. I developed affinity towards that as soon as I started using that. But along the way a new browser catches my eye. Chrome!!!!! I love Google's products. I like the way UI is designed and clean colors and the minimalistic approach. Especially the combination of title bar and the Tab bar.  If you observe the to part of the chrome where all the controls are you can see that they cleverly placed all the controls in just two lines while all other browsers including opera and Mozilla (I am not talking about IE though I love them for being the pioneers in freely distributed browser model) take at least three to four lines.  In this article my focus would be on Opera and Chrome. 

Pros of Chrome:

1. Clean and minimalistic UI. 

2. Fast load time: I am not talking about the pages I am talking about the program itself.

3. I can make the tabs independent windows. Love that feature.

What I like about Opera:

1.Note Taking feature: I admit chrome has taken the plus points from all the other browsers. How did they miss this. I believe that all of us often run into a situation where we copy various clippings from the websites. I use notepad or other note taking program using a regular copy paste method. Opera has given me an inbuilt note taking feature. I could select a clipping and select the option copy to note and it creates a new note in book.

2. I love the speed: comparable to chrome. You can check it out yourself. 

3. Panels:  I feel they are way better than popups. Well you can think of panels as a frames with in the window. Very good use of the Space here. The panels are collapsible and you can easily bring it up.

4. Load the web-page on back-ground option: When we choose this option. your web-page is loaded in the back ground same as open in new tab option in chrome. But in addition to this opera also provides an option to load the web page.