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- quomen, on 06/12/2009, -0/+72I love Opera, and I agree, it's looked over too often and is not given enough credit. Perhaps they would be more popular if they didn't originally charge for the browser..
<3 Opera. Awesome browser. - AhrenBa, on 06/12/2009, -2/+47Dugg for the lone reason that the guys over at Opera deserve some major recognition for the features they came up with. A few of the ones listed on that page are arguably the features that are most important to me. Kudos Opera for pioneering some great stuff!!
- Royish, on 06/12/2009, -0/+44IIRC it wasn't always free. That's probably why it never caught on, especially once Firefox came out.
- amitforu78, on 06/11/2009, -9/+51Opera is truly best.
- Dongvid, on 06/12/2009, -2/+39Opera is awesome, but it's not as easy to configure as Firefox with their add on server. You can do everything with Opera, and it's built in and fast. You don't have to deal with annoying updates. I remember when I first tried it, coming from Fx 1.5. I instinctively tried to use my mouse gestures (like in the addon I had for Firefox) and realized that they were already in Opera, I just had to click "Yes." The tab management was far superior. It was very quick and snappy, and the built-in email and IRC was very helpful.
Some of the fancy stuff is a bit harder to do. Adblock is just a quick copy/paste, and I have it configured to save space on my tiny screen. I have the tabs bar disappear if there's only one open, and I have the menubar at the top hidden. You just have to ask Google, someone will have definitely posted a how-to. Now I'm an Opera addict.
Still, I have only found one thing that Firefox does better: user agent switching. Oh, how i love browsing as a google bot. - Tmac90, on 06/11/2009, -7/+42I have honesty never tried opera, i'm heading over there right now to check it out.
- radu79, on 06/12/2009, -3/+32I am using Opera since it became free (2005).
I used Firefox before (and before that IE 4 and 5, and Netscape Navigator).
It's by far the best browser I used, much more customizable than any other browser, very fast, stable..
Yes, it doesn't have extensions, but for me, a browser doesn't need extensions. It comes by default with many cool things, such as bittorrent support, ad blocking, and so on. - hardeep1singh, on 06/11/2009, -1/+27If you develop some of the best features in the business and you don't boast about it, chances are others will copy it and profit out of it, without you ever getting that recognition.
Mobile space is different, you never had so many options, with newer browsers coming into the market and browser wars hotting up in mobile space, they really need to take steps to hold on to their lead. Not releasing a new Symbian version is a step in the wrong direction. - mdaize, on 06/12/2009, -2/+28I have been using Opera for years. I can see how Firefox is infinitely more reliable and robust then the M$ Internet *****, however Firefox isn't the Jesus Browser. I still find frustration from it due to memory leaks (yes, on multiple computers including fresh installs)....
Opera has time and time again braved through my wreckless operation of the system and always treated me to its plethora of ease of use features.
Favourite Feature of Opera among many:
<right click> 'Paste and Go' - moulin1, on 06/11/2009, -1/+19My favorite innovation is customizable toolbars.
- LumpOfCole, on 06/12/2009, -5/+22Opera 10 Beta is the best browser out there right now. Digg me down but it is *everything* I need in a browser without plug-ins. Plus, who else really has Opera Link (Does Xmarks sync notes, speed dial, searches, and typed history?) and Opera Turbo? Where is Adblock you ask? Why, it's just a url filter you stick in a folder, not an extension.
Opera is the top of the heap. - cJw314, on 06/12/2009, -0/+16I have to applaud your post, Dongvid; it's one of the few comments I see on digg anymore that's actually relevant and worth reading.
3 thumbs up for you. - chessthecat, on 06/12/2009, -1/+17I think so. I remember it was Free with Ads or you had to pay. I just kept on looking for another browser and landed on Firefox.
- appleofdischord, on 06/12/2009, -1/+15"Even though Opera is the most popular mobile browser in the world, in the desktop market Opera is the most under-rated browser despite having created many innovative *features which were* later copied by other browsers."
Fixed. - jmechy, on 06/12/2009, -1/+15I think you'll find that you don't need extensions anymore, Opera has so many features built in that your favorite extension is probably already native.
- inactive, on 06/12/2009, -2/+13STFU n00b Opera could kill Chuck Norris and dominate your mom.
- mattharvey716, on 06/12/2009, -4/+14ah yes that common abbreviation "BO":
"We had to manually delete personal info BO (before Opera)." - Adralemechk, on 06/12/2009, -1/+11I remembered the first time I ever used Opera was on the Wii.
I was all like "Opera? Wtf is that?"
It's a shame that Opera isn't more well known. - InYoLeftI, on 06/12/2009, -0/+10Mouse gestures make it best for me once you start using em you cant go back :)
and yeah the firefox extension for them works really well but i still prefer opera. - TrekkieDude, on 06/12/2009, -0/+9I went the extra step & actually bought it. My thinking was a browser this good deserved to be supported, & hopefully have more innovations done the track. I like to think that I was in a way supporting the developers & telling them that I liked what they were doing! :-)
- meridian, on 06/11/2009, -4/+13Opera also was the least resource intensive browser pre-Chrome / Firefox 3 if I remember correctly.
- BlackOp, on 06/12/2009, -0/+8You can actually customize it a lot more than people seem to think.
- Phrea, on 06/12/2009, -3/+11It is indeed a great browser, been using it for years.
Sadly, the site is already down...
http://rorr.im - snowbusiness, on 06/12/2009, -2/+10been using opera since v6 and have never stopped. People sackride firefox like crazy, but its really not that good. the extensions are great yes, but doesnt make up for it for me.
- MCCULLAH, on 06/12/2009, -2/+10Opera is great. The only browser i can check emails, go on IRC, and browse at the same time with fast speed. Can't wait for opera 10....ive heard great things.
although the bittorrent client bloows chode.... - ashrafneo, on 06/12/2009, -0/+8retard alert, this guy will join your CS class and then continue to pester you with stupid questions. "I Don't geeeett it!"
- inactive, on 06/12/2009, -2/+10I don't know why people were complaining about the ads. It's not like they were intrusive or anything. I mean hell, even with it, the vertical space it took was still less than what was being taken from a lot of people on Internet Explorer (and a few on Firefox too).
- TonyCubed, on 06/12/2009, -3/+10While Opera has came up with some ways to improve the experience of web browsing, they really killed themselves with sticking adverts literally into their browsers awhile ago. When I first found Opera years ago, I liked it, but the built in advertisements made it look like a complete joke. I tried to get back into it, but Firefox was turning into a big rave and I couldn't go back.
- shinkou, on 06/12/2009, -0/+7Opera is no doubt a very decent browser with many nice innovations which are later adopted by the others. Despite of its market share, its standard compliance, being compact in size, and ubiquity on all kinds of platform make it deserve more than what it's currently receiving. We need something like this to foster a healthy competition and push the industry forward.
- inactive, on 06/12/2009, -0/+7FF was enough for me, too, until I tried Opera and found myself using it more and more.
Give it a shot. It might have something you never knew you needed. There's no harm in experimenting;it's just a browser. You might like it, you might still prefer FF, but at least you'll have more of a basis for comparison. - yournightmare, on 06/12/2009, -1/+8It makes sense that they came up with features that are now standard in Web browsers. They had to do something to set themselves far enough apart from Netscape and IE in order to justify charging people for their browser.
- Dongvid, on 06/12/2009, -0/+7http://rorr.im
- inactive, on 06/12/2009, -2/+9Yeah, unless you're a developer and there's an add-on that that you absolutely need, you'll probably find that everything you need is already in there, (though they have their own set of developement tools, too: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-develope r-tools/) built in add-blocking, torrent client, wand for passwords, built in rss feed is excellent as well, can turn off java script al la NoScript, an all-in-one-sidebar that's much easier to use than FFs, in my opinion
I've noticed I get less spyware since I started using it, too, not that I was getting anything serious, but it's still nice. - OpCzar, on 06/12/2009, -0/+7"5) Full page Zoom: A better alternative to larger text, zooming increases the size of the page without distorting the layout by only increasing the text size. Introduced by opera in 1996, and now all major browsers have this feature."
I find that opera is still the best for zoomed in browsing. When i was experimenting with my computer connected to a TV, I found the 'fit to width' option to be a great boon. What's the point of zooming in if you'll need to scroll sideways all the time? - inactive, on 06/12/2009, -1/+8Also, you can use Opera to browse using facial gestures!
http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/04/01/
Unless you have a disabilty, you'll probably have no use for it, but it's fun to play with just the same. Plus,
they have a pretty good sense of humor about it:
"Users visiting Web sites that contain adult content sometimes make unconscious facial expressions. If Opera keeps opening Speed Dial and Zooming In and Out, please be aware that this not a bug. It may be useful to disable Face Gestures for a better experience. Also remember that wiping your cache is recommend after visiting untrusted websites." - Neiby, on 06/12/2009, -0/+7I believe you're right. IIRC, the free version used to have ads, which was ***** annoying.
- lenny4422, on 06/12/2009, -0/+7Read his post history, he was on the original Google team, the original Microsoft team, and the original Fedora team. And he is only 25.
- MatchstiK, on 06/12/2009, -0/+6If Opera was free from the beginning, they could be where Firefox is today. You're absolutely right.
- mrogi, on 06/12/2009, -1/+7Opera Browser is the efficient flatchested chick who can cook, clean, sew and fix your car's transmission. It dont matter. Most guys will still choose the brainless blond bimbo with big *****. Internet Explorer remains the browser of choice no matter what.
- Niz1, on 06/12/2009, -0/+6I will eventually try Opera (again), not done so since the ad supported one but yeh that pretty much put me off, when FF goes to the dumps I might do so. I live by the mobile version on my phone though, and the fact that it has a sync option in it is making me want to (sync the desktop one with the mobile one).
- dacheetah, on 06/12/2009, -0/+6*looks in bag*
Great, today has to be the one day I forgot to pack the troll repellent. - inactive, on 06/12/2009, -0/+6The user interface can be as simple as you want it to be.
- DamonToo, on 06/12/2009, -0/+5I haven't seen the post (because it's down) but I assume one of the features was tabbed browsing. Opera often gets cited as having invented this feature when even Opera says they didn't. There were tabbed browsers before it. They were the first to add an MDI though.
- ShadedNine, on 06/12/2009, -0/+5Your knowledge of this is impressive, but the article does acknowledge the dispute, though still list it as one of the 8. FTA:
"There are some disagreements about who introduced tabbed browsing. The first version of Opera in 1994 (named MultiTorg Opera) introduced MDI tab where each tabs could be resized, tiled, cascaded and moved. But Netcaptor in 1997 was the first browser that offered the current form of simple fixed tabs that we are used in browsers (but at the bottom). Tabs on top of the browser (unlike Netcaptor) was also introduced by Opera in 2000." - ShadedNine, on 06/12/2009, -2/+7They forgot searching specific sites (Google, Amazon, IMDB, Wikipedia, etc) from the address bar through the use of configurable 'key' letters..
e.g. "g test" will google search 'test', while "w test" searches wikipedia.
Unless of course another browser started this, but I haven't seen it. - madcat033, on 06/12/2009, -0/+5Yeah, I switched to opera a few years ago and haven't looked back. It's got everything I would want from firefox extensions already built in, and the mouse gestures are so perfect in opera. Right click scrolling to switch tabs makes it so convenient...
Opera FTW! - dimator, on 06/12/2009, -1/+6How strange! I'm visiting Digg after I just installer Opera to try it out.
It's pretty fast, so far. I think the FF extensions are the first thing I'll miss. - sh1tman, on 06/12/2009, -0/+5Please don't tell me this is your alt account, 123. I can't keep track of all this hilarious stupidity.
- stockjones, on 06/12/2009, -0/+5Opera has always been an innovator. Its amazing how many of their ideas have been ripped by other browsers. The speed dial view thing in Chrome is a direct rip. I just never liked Opera's UI that much and the way it handled caching. Plus what hurt Opera's growth was the purchase requirements years ago.
But man that webkit is faaast and I like it. - V1ncent, on 06/12/2009, -0/+4Opera used to be great for slower computers. Tight footprint, used less memory and the ability to click off graphics at the touch of a button made web pages load fast fast fast! And the intro to tabs was fabu!
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