Firefox vs Opera: Evaluation of Primary Features and Capabilities

pcil @ Mon, 10/02/2006 - 20:58

Project:	OSDDP Project
Component:	White Paper
Category:	task
Priority:	critical
Assigned:	cmewing
Status:	needs review

Description

Our team will discuss the difference about 2 web browsers, Firefox, being an open source web browser and Opera as the closed source, but very customizable. One simple difference between the two would be the interface. Firefox has a clean interface, with only the basic necessities (back, forward, reload, stop, and home buttons, an address bar, and Google search). Opera, on the other hand, displays many more tools and buttons by default. Second most important difference is the extensions available for each browser. Since Firefox is an open source browser, the users develop scripts or extensions they find most useful, while Opera only make extensions they think are the most necessary from suggestions. Opera has an advantage over Firefox in website compatibility. For certain sites, Firefox has an issue of displaying the page properly. Opera is nearly as good as Internet Explorer when displaying the CSS pages. Web developers need to test their codes and designs in both Opera and Firefox if they want it to be the same. Opera is also more user-friendly for beginners. They do not have to search for different extensions to get certain things done. Comparing Firefox with Opera is like comparing PC with Mac. Opera is more intuitive and has better customer support than Firefox. It also uses a lot less system resources, therefore causing less system crashes/hang-ups.
What we mentioned here are just simple differences that we found between Firefox and Opera. As we see in this short proposal, being an open source is not always an advantage. We will cover more detail about Firefox vs Opera in the actual paper. We decided that the paper will focus on how Firefox will probably be better for some users and opera will be better for some other users.

Prisilia Paramita
David Stewart
Caner Cankaya
Lindsay Miller
Carrie Ewing

Updates

Priority:	normal	» critical
Assigned to:	pcil	» cmewing
Status:	active	» needs review
Attachment:	Final Paper.doc (61 KB)

This white paper is over FireFox vs. Opera. Talks a little about each browser’s advantages and disadvantages. Responses we would like to see are about the general look and flow of the paper. Does it flow easily together? Does it look appealing to the eye? On the content, is the information interesting or does it put you to sleep? Is the resources page done correctly? Should we add any pictures to the paper for easier understanding? You are welcome to give any advice you like, though we would appreciate positive criticism. We are looking for constructive advice. Thanks for your time.

Title:

Firefox vs Opera

» Firefox vs Opera: Evaluation of Primary Features and Capabilities

Attached is our revised copy of the white paper. Thanks to all of you who commented and for the great advice.

Nice Work

purrdoo21

Mon, 10/23/2006 - 21:09

I think this is a great white paper! It does exactly what a white paper should do, inform the reader. Ok, so how about some feedback? I think that your paper flows very nicely. However, it looks a little overwhelming when you start discussing firefox and opera. You might want to think about separating the information into subheadings or double spacing the paper so it doesn't look so crowded. I think that the information is very interesting. I'm a firefox user and didn't know that you could download add-ons. Granted I'm not very computer savvy, but now that I know you can download more features to firefox I'm definitely going to.

Your resource page looks great! The only thing that I think needs changed is having active hyperlinks. They kind of stick out like a sore thumb.

Also, you wondered if you should add pictures. I think when you're explaining the two browsers adding a picture of features that each has or having some sort of visual explaining what you are talking about would be beneficial.

Overall it's a great paper, very informative and interesting!

Danielle

Reply to feedback

lnmiller

Mon, 10/23/2006 - 22:45

Thanks for the comments on the paper. I agree with you that we need to seperate the information into more parts. This will make the paper easier to read and will allow readers to skip to the parts they are most interested in. In addition, I think that adding visuals of how pages look and pointing out attributes on the pages, such as tabbed browsers, would be a great way to help illustrate what we are talking about and make it less confusing to the reader. Thanks again for all of your great comments.

First of all good job! I t

carzola

Fri, 10/20/2006 - 20:21

First of all good job!

I thought that the format overall of your paper was done well. I'm a bit unsure of the technicalities of the format, so I might be wrong (haha) but I thought it was organized very well.

You also had many sources which is something that I feel like my group should improve on. Your paper was very credible due to so many different pieces of information.

Draft 1 Review

efrurip

Thu, 10/19/2006 - 12:56

First off, you guys have a great start! You have some really good information that is presented well and is credible. I was very impressed with your content.

As per your suggestions I will start with the general look and flow of paper. I thought that you could use better headings and sectioning of the content. If you look under the section of "writing an effective white paper" on the course website it gives great tips on how you should create headings. You want to have your headings be descriptions of the major point in that section that the reader will take away from the paper even if they don't read that section. For example; I think you should change the headings Advantages and Disadvantages of Firefox to the major Advantage and Disadvantage you want the reader to know. The same goes for the section on Opera. You also might want to consider dividing up those sections into Firefox and Opera. Then underneath those main headings have sub sections advantages and disadvantages in each. This will help with flow and not make your paper look like a big block of text.

The content I thought was very interesting, however I think if you had some testimonials it might add some variety and credability.

The resource page looks perfect, however you may want to look into whether or not hyperlinks should be active.

Pictures would help to add understanding I think especially when explaining the technical differences of Firefox and Opera.

Overall, this is a great start! Good job!

Emily Frurip

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