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Why I love Opera
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#41Mikes brainz explodzeses. -
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#42I AM SURFING WITH GOOGLE CHROME!
Sweet! -
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#44I like it :)
I sure does load google apps quickly! :p -
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#45Opera has been struggling for a while. Its continued failure to lure new users to the browser has been noticed by current and potential future investors.Financially they have done well, but the market hoped for a strong alliance with Google, or perhaps a purchase.
With the launch of Chrome the market reacted negatively, Opera shares plummeting 20% in a couple of days.
Some analysts now announce they believe Opera will hit the wall in five or six years.
*Dons funeral clothes* -
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#46*rends clothes asunder and smears face with charcoal*
//WAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!// -
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#47That would be horrible. They are also the only mobile browser worth anything. Haven't used the iphone and that one seems good, but for others of us stuck with the crap that comes with most phones, opera mobile comes to the rescue! -
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#48Well, it is only speculation. Safari has some huge security holes that renders it unusable for electronic banking and payments, so, well, I'd use Opera. -
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#49I've found that phpspell does not work for me in Chrome - I get a window that is filled with black. -
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#50
Opera has been struggling for a while. Its continued failure to lure new users to the browser has been noticed by current and potential future investors.Financially they have done well, but the market hoped for a strong alliance with Google, or perhaps a purchase.
With the launch of Chrome the market reacted negatively, Opera shares plummeting 20% in a couple of days.
Some analysts now announce they believe Opera will hit the wall in five or six years.
*Dons funeral clothes*
Please let this be false.
Opera saved my web experience when I used a lumbering old dinosaur back in 2000 and tried it out - suddenly realised not every page load had to lag for seconds. It's such a ridiculously superior browser.
I love it so much I could even consider abandoning linux for windows if it somehow stopped working in linux. -
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#51I don't like Chrome. I tried it but I wasn't impressed.
Opera was king, but I just can't live without Firebug in Firefox. Opera has its own as well but I just couldn't get into it. I have slowly been using Firefox more and more. Plus, my schools web based classes are made for IE, don't work in Opera, but work fine (with some minor rendering issues) in Firefox. Frankly, Opera was my favorite due to the tabbed browsers and fast loading...now that Firefox has the tabs and they work great....Opera has been getting used less and less. :( -
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#52For web development Firefox is King, or, well, when you do office web development, IE is King. MS uses so many ActiveX components that only they support that all others are unusable.
So I use IE for work and Opera for private browsing. When I take on open source assignments I use Firefox, since Firebug is so damn good. I agree with Strolen on his assessment of Firebug vs. Opera's tools.
Firefox is much more stable though. I hate using Opera in my online banking, as the JVM support for Opera seems buggy at best.
So, I guess my usage ratio is:
Opera: 50%
IE: 40%
FF: 10% -
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#53Oh, and Chrome has a long way to go yet. -
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#54THIS IS WHY I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE OPERA!
http://cybernetnews.com/2008/06/13/helpful-tip-add-more-speed-dials-in-opera-95/
YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESsssssss! -
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#55Adding more speed dials is easy in Opera 10. It even has it's own menu.
Some other news: Firefox and Opera are the preferred browsers of the hacker community:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/21/exploit_operator_browsers/
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#56Opera 10 -
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#57Sigh.....
Opera 10.5 has critically failed every time I load it. Can't get it to work at all. Sucks up 100% CPU and the bogs me down. Tried all variations of reinstall/repair etc to no effect. Firefox has been taking over my heart for a long time. Latest version with the single click theme update is just neat, its continued support of many CSS3 toys. Firebug is priceless to me and, for that alone, Firefox has finally won me over I fear. I patiently await 10.x and will try again but, alas, Opera is no longer loaded on my system. -
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#58Hmm...
Opera runs like a rabbit on my system. Smoother than Firefox. I run 10.1 though, and by the sound of it, 10.5 sounds like a bad idea.
Oh well.
*ban Strolen from the thread*
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#59Well... I fear that they have given up the browser wars, and now focus most of their staff on the Opera Mini browser, which is where they got an edge (and most users) -
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#60True, true. First thing I did on my phone was get mini. -
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#61I tried to like Firefox 4...and I do, Chrome just does things more intuitively. I don't like the hidden tabs when I have a thousand open, I like Chrome holding a TON more tabs without the scrolling. Firefox has also frozen me a couple 3 times already for apparently no reason.
Next I will try the latest Opera. I have abandoned it for the past 6+ months since I got a corrupted install or something and couldn't get it loaded. Have Windows 7 now, time to try again.