techradar.com— Mozilla's Vice President of Engineering Mike Shaver has laughed off claims by Opera that its Opera Unite tool is Web 5.0, but praised the company for continuing to push the boundaries.
Jun 29, 2009View in Crawl 4
I'm a big fan of Opera, 10 is incredible on Linux! Still, I'm not so sure if Unite will catch on without more work, it completely depends on the apps that are developed by Opera and its users. The fact that you must have Opera running to host the services makes it not so great for casually hosting a personal webpage; however, I've definitely found it handy in sharing pictures and streaming music with people I email or talk to. It's a very nifty feature but requires other networking sources underneath it to be useful. Sure, it's more economical than DropBox for sharing files, but at the cost of convenience. Maybe some nifty algorithm will allow access to offline Unite servers via the cache of other Opera users; that would make it a lot more useful.The packaging of it into the web browser is ingenious, though, which Mozilla should admit; feels like it should have been there all along. I'm so glad I don't need RapidShare anymore!
Is is just me or does this guy come out as a dick to you? Anyway, Opera's Unite technology will become a big part of the web in the future. I say the future because not everyone as the connection good enough to handle uploading & downloading at the same time and keep a good speed. I also think this will become big because of piracy, no longer do you have to go to mediafire, mininova, or thepiratebay and risk getting your IP traced from using these sites. Now you can just download the file directly from their computer.This may not be big yet, but it will be in the future.
Opera 10 Unite is the best an d most advanced web browser, fast, smart, just try it!... I ve tried them all and Firefox 3.5 doen't come close to OPERA 10....No way!!! and OPERA 10 UNITE is really GREAT!... Opera features :Opera link (synchronizes your browser bookmarks, notes,history wherever u are and even in your mobile phone browser Opera mini or Opera mobile), WAND (pwd and form fill), Undo close tab, open recently closed tabs, paste & go, speed dial , fit to width, zoom, tile browser windows, voice (read pages an voice navigation, mouse gestures,dragonfly tools, smart address bar, torrents, feeds, irc, chat, imap mail, acid3 100% and now the UNITE service makes it special!....Plus Opera 10 has great add ons as WIDGETS plus skins and the revolutionary new OPERA UNITE with lets u share big files and do lots of stuff without having to install external programs... Objectively OPERA 10 is evolution from the past!
hardeep1singhJun 29, 2009
I have 4 browsers on my PC IE8, Firefox, Chrome and Opera, with IE8 being the default browser. Still I end up using Opera most of the times.
dsn0wmanJun 29, 2009
At least it's not as bad as saying that you use IE8 as your default.
dongvidJun 30, 2009
I'm a big fan of Opera, 10 is incredible on Linux! Still, I'm not so sure if Unite will catch on without more work, it completely depends on the apps that are developed by Opera and its users. The fact that you must have Opera running to host the services makes it not so great for casually hosting a personal webpage; however, I've definitely found it handy in sharing pictures and streaming music with people I email or talk to. It's a very nifty feature but requires other networking sources underneath it to be useful. Sure, it's more economical than DropBox for sharing files, but at the cost of convenience. Maybe some nifty algorithm will allow access to offline Unite servers via the cache of other Opera users; that would make it a lot more useful.The packaging of it into the web browser is ingenious, though, which Mozilla should admit; feels like it should have been there all along. I'm so glad I don't need RapidShare anymore!
nexfrostJun 30, 2009
Is is just me or does this guy come out as a dick to you? Anyway, Opera's Unite technology will become a big part of the web in the future. I say the future because not everyone as the connection good enough to handle uploading & downloading at the same time and keep a good speed. I also think this will become big because of piracy, no longer do you have to go to mediafire, mininova, or thepiratebay and risk getting your IP traced from using these sites. Now you can just download the file directly from their computer.This may not be big yet, but it will be in the future.
prsurferJun 30, 2009
Opera 10 Unite is the best an d most advanced web browser, fast, smart, just try it!... I ve tried them all and Firefox 3.5 doen't come close to OPERA 10....No way!!! and OPERA 10 UNITE is really GREAT!... Opera features :Opera link (synchronizes your browser bookmarks, notes,history wherever u are and even in your mobile phone browser Opera mini or Opera mobile), WAND (pwd and form fill), Undo close tab, open recently closed tabs, paste & go, speed dial , fit to width, zoom, tile browser windows, voice (read pages an voice navigation, mouse gestures,dragonfly tools, smart address bar, torrents, feeds, irc, chat, imap mail, acid3 100% and now the UNITE service makes it special!....Plus Opera 10 has great add ons as WIDGETS plus skins and the revolutionary new OPERA UNITE with lets u share big files and do lots of stuff without having to install external programs... Objectively OPERA 10 is evolution from the past!
nshadyJun 30, 2009
The title of both the digg story and the actual article makes his comment sound snarkier than it really was.
Closed AccountJun 30, 2009
just wtf are you talking about?