firefox sucks

I've been in a world of pain for months, my work desktop isn't fast to begin with, and I have it running three monitors, so that impacts its abilities even further.

So every time I'd have like 10 tabs open, or go to relatively intensive sites like IGN, it would drag my machine to a halt. Even going to gmail and chatting in their ajaxy interface would take like 80% of my processor.

I figured this machine was slow and crappy and that was just the price I had to pay.

Wrong. Firefox fucking sucks.

I downloaded Opera today, and the change is like night and day. I'm in IGN streaming high res videos without any video hiccups, while having several putty windows and Outlook open. Another tab has Gmail running without a hitch. Processor usage is like 35%.

It looks like Opera has some sort of slower optimizations for initally drawing things, it takes a little bit longer for the page to load right off the bat, but you're talking half a second or so. And after that it handles it like a champ.

I've gone to all my standard sites, and Opera runs them just fine. It feels like a whole new computer, I can't believe the difference. I highly recommend if you're a Windows user, get off the Firefox bandwagon and try an actual lightweight, fast, efficient browser. Opera is fantastic.