From: "karl shah-jenner" : Opera is celebrating its 10th birthday *today* and is giving away free : registration codes for PC, linux and Mac - so if you are thinking of : playing with opera but don't want to dowload it today, it will save you : some dollars to grab the registration code while it's free and legal! : : http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml Me: : Opera is celebrating its 10th birthday *today* and is giving away free : registration codes for PC, linux and Mac : : http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml As an aside, APC did a review of IE and firefox, comparing their memory usage by first opening one instance, then another 21 by using ctrl+n versus using the task bar icon and found the IE footprint was something like 40mb (of your RAM being used) to have a single instance, balooning to something like 400Mb when using the taskbar launch.. compared to a mere 44M when using ctrl+n (!!!) Firefox was supposed to be similar but not quite as bad.. this is hearsay though, I haven't seen the article myself but it's interesting that there should be such a massive difference in operations, so I thought I'd try it with opera Vs IE I just did a test a couple of times and took the average. Tried opening IE the two ways stated to compare the memory usage using FREERAM as a guide as to the RAM used. Also did it with Opera. I started with 409Mb of free memory (yes, I was running a few static programs to load the system a little) of the 512 I have in the system on this PC (win98SE don't laugh!). RAM (Mb) available after opening a rather large and bloated web page repetitively.. opened IE using Opened IE using Opened Opera and dupe'd pages CTRL+N task bar 351 340 384 330 326 379 324 312 370 319 299 361 312 285 356 After closing ALL the pages, this was what RAM (Mb) was left available 349 348 370 kewl! Opera certainly gives back more and uses less of your computers memory than internet explorer.. now someone want to do this with a *fully* loaded version of Firefox comparable to Opera? i am not entirely sure if this IS ot, given we're all using PS at one time or another, and knowing it's memory leakage it's advantageous to know what programs draw whay resources if we're using the computers as a multitasking tool k
