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Top Forums Web Development Opera on the Rise? FF in Decline? Post 302308008 by cbkihong on Thursday 16th of April 2009 08:48:43 PM

04-16-2009

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Originally Posted by Corona688

I don't really trust opera. Its a closed-source monolith that used to be for-purchase, evolved into an captive-audience ad-supported program, then finally dropped the ads to become what it is today, but there's nothing stopping them from an abrupt about-face when they start playing with revenue models again.

Yes you are right. However, to most ordinary users, unlike development tools, whether a browser is being open-sourced or closed-sourced is not an important consideration at all. What they are concerned is whether it is convenient for them, and display the sites well. Very few people would actually modify a browser engine, provided the browser has a plugin API for extending browser functionality. Today's browser rendering engine is a piece of complex mess that improper modifications may lead to subtle rendering issues.

Of course, everybody is free to decide otherwise.

If Opera charges again or put the ad banners back, people will again shy away from it and thus lose market share. The market force (and presence of more competing browsers) will likely not let them back on the old route again.

I have experienced Firefox crashes on pages without Flash for unknown reasons. At least on Windows, Opera and Google Chrome, IMO, has been more stable in this regard.

I don't open maybe 20 tabs at a time so I don't experience much performance and resource utilization issue. But one thing I know for certain - a poorly written piece of Javascript (not all AJAX scripts are as evil) will in itself be a performance hog and hence only with one tab open may suffice to cause problems. Just like a loop that is run continuously instead of one triggered on an acceptable interval. In those cases, the author of the page is to blame and not the browser engines.

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hman(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   hman(1)

NAME

       hman - browse the on-line manual pages

SYNOPSIS

       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] name
       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] [ index ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  hman  script is an interface to man2html(1) that allows you to enter man page requests at the command line and view the output in your
       favourite browser.  The behaviour reminds of that of man(1) so that many people will be able to alias hman to man.  If the browser used	is
       netscape, and an incarnation of netscape is running already, hman will pass the request to the existing browser.

OPTIONS

       -P  browser
	      Specify  which  browser  (like  lynx, xmosaic, arena, chimera, netscape, amaya, ...) to use.  This option overrides the MANHTMLPAGER
	      environment variable.  The default is the non-httpd version of lynx, or sensible-browser if lynx cannot be found.

       -H  host
	      Specify from what host to get the man pages.  This option overrides the MANHTMLHOST environment variable.  The default is localhost.

ENVIRONMENT

       MANHTMLPAGER
	      The default browser to use is selected using this environment variable.

       MANHTMLHOST
	      The default host to use is selected using this environment variable.

SEE ALSO

       man(1), man2html(1), arena(1), lynx(1), sensible-browser(1), netscape(1), xmosaic(1), glimpse(1)

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