Opera vs kde-pim

[Ted Frater]

Rick wrote:

>has anyone move over to Opera, for all forms of communication : email, irc, 
>rss, usenet, web...etc : instead of using several other kde apps.
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>Can opera handle it well? or are there some limitation ?
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>Regards -
>Richard
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Ive several laptops on the go, One runs Slackware 10
with Opera for linux 9 Thats my favorite cos it the last version to show 
the actual download speed .
another runs  dos 6.22 and wfwgs with opera 3 and Netscape 3
another has Xubuntu with opera 10
another has millenium with opera 9.
 Ive tried firefox on most of these and its benefit is it always loads 
the page properly.
 However its a memory hog and consequently slow on my machines these are 
P3 500 and up to 1100..
 On the otherhand Opera is the fastest to download , and to  switch to 
the next url.
 My experience is  somewhat limited  to laptops.
As for email and newsgroups I use thunderbird. on most with the 
exception of the dos laptop. There I use the email client in netscape 3.
Interstingly Netscape 3 is for some sites fastst of all  Especially for 
text .
And Yes Im running an 8mb broadband link with dos drivers where and when 
I need them!!
Great fun.
the only limitation of the current opera version is that at some sites 
it doesnt like rendering frames. I dont know why. Just once in a while.