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- doithere, on 06/03/2009, -12/+77Opera ftw!
- commentbot, on 06/03/2009, -2/+37The new tab bar is awesome!
- theasus2009, on 06/03/2009, -6/+41Opera is the best browser. Fast, have many features, beautiful and...its just cool=)
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -15/+46Opera is to Firefox what Facebook is to Myspace.
- mattcoxonline, on 06/03/2009, -7/+38Not even tempted by Opera Turbo for lightning fast loading times when your net connection is slow? Speed Dial? Being able to sync your bookmarks, search engines, browser settings between your home desktop, work desktop, laptop and mobile?
Opera also is a bittorrent client, email client and full rss reader out-of-the-box. - theexitwound, on 06/03/2009, -0/+26Yes.
From the changelog:
HTML 5 support
HTML 5 algorithms have been implemented for detecting charsets in HTML.
HTML 5 end-tag and start-tag parsing, whitespace parsing, and DOCTYPE parsing have been added.
HTML 5 <canvas> elements can now export images to the JPEG format.
HTML 5 <canvas> transforms are applied when building a path, not when painting it. - NovaPrime9, on 06/03/2009, -5/+29Wow. Coffee hasn't kicked in yet. I read that as "Obama 10 beta is out" and wondered what the ***** that meant.
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -0/+24Except Opera came before Firefox
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -5/+25Mouse gestures too.
- Wareznuke, on 06/03/2009, -7/+27Yeah, Firefox totally has all that. After installing memory consuming extensions.
- DamonToo, on 06/03/2009, -0/+19Dugg for software actually making it to version 10 without changing versioning to letters or nonsensical words.
- nd4spdviper, on 06/03/2009, -1/+19it always has. the problem is not Opera not loading correctly but web developers and designers not working with web standards and working "so the page loads OK on IE and FF"
- Sivaram, on 06/03/2009, -9/+25So when can we see all those new feature ADD-ON for Firefox ?
Opera Innovates... Others simply copy it...
Update : just now installed and it rendered digg at LIGHTENING fast ... !!! gona move my general browsing on opera.. - TheMachine1, on 06/03/2009, -7/+21Lynx 2.8.7pre.4 is out to.
- geoken, on 06/03/2009, -2/+16Who ever called them unique?
Every time I see a FF plugin that came from Opera the plugin maker seems pretty open about his/her inspiration. The 2 Opera inspired plugins I ran (gestures and speed dial) both openly admitted they were implementations of Opera features. - chockster, on 06/03/2009, -7/+19"Opera also is a bittorrent client, email client and full rss reader out-of-the-box."
Meh, I remember Mozilla before it slimmed itself into Firefox. I don't want my web browser to be a torrent client- it's never going to be better than Transmission. Nor do I want it to be an e-mail client. - snowbusiness, on 06/03/2009, -7/+19Opera continues to not get enough attention. Chrome is decent, but it doesnt even tough opera. Firefox is crap that is propped up by a lot of really cool useful extensions. Those extensions arent enough for me to use it though, incredibly overrated as a browser.
- GreenAlien, on 06/03/2009, -1/+11"Cue the same updates but labeled "unique" in Firefox in 3, 2, 1... Ah, too melodramatic. It's awesome!"
I have a feeling you're confusing Firefox with Safari. I vaguely recall Safari getting some criticism over this a while back. - mrkredo, on 06/03/2009, -1/+11Does it support HTML5?
- DotGet, on 06/03/2009, -0/+10I actually prefer not 'focusing on new tab automatically'. If I'm on a site like digg I prefer to be able to open up a bunch of new tabs at once without having to click back to the original tab so many times.
And I used to be a major Opera supporter, but the crashing (every time I used Google search bar and more) in Vista weened me over to Firefox. Now I'm so attached to 'treetabs' that it'd be really difficult to go back. Speed dial was a great Opera feature, but I got the FF extension for that and it works just as well. Also, LastPass is a good deal more useful than the magic wand. You can visit your password vault at any time to actually SEE what your passwords are (by right-click, copy), not just having the browser store them in an encryption.
If you're not familiar with the treetabs extension, look it up. It stacks your tabs vertically on the left side of the browser, also turning each tab into a directory of sorts. All new tabs are opened up under the tab you're currently on, and the original 'directory' tab be collapsed and expanded whenever you're not using that set of tabs. Then each set of tabs within that 'directory' tab becomes a directory itself... so on and so forth. I typically have 25-30 tabs open in the browser, while only 8-10 are visible at one time. - tomasmarc, on 06/03/2009, -3/+13Love Opera. Gonna get it as soon as they release a stable version.
- feelfree86, on 06/03/2009, -0/+9running the beta now...super fast! love it
- blah667, on 06/03/2009, -0/+9Greasemonkey = Opera UserJS, and even fully supports greasemonkey scripts.
Noscript = press F12 -> site preferences
AdBlockPlus = Content blocker filter lists
DownThemAll = use operas link panel
Linkification = theres a UserJS script for this. - madcat033, on 06/03/2009, -3/+12Really? It pulled me away from FireFox two years ago. I don't even have FireFox installed anymore... Chrome, Opera, and IE are all ya need.
- Jarasmen, on 06/03/2009, -14/+22Cue the same updates but labeled "unique" in Firefox in 3, 2, 1... Ah, too melodramatic. It's awesome!
- sn0wball78, on 06/03/2009, -0/+8Great stuff! Opera 10 is going to be really nice!
- SlackerCS, on 06/03/2009, -0/+8I can't believe it - but I'm actually using the tab bar too. It takes up a lot of real estate, but man it's nice once you get used to it.
- VietSushi, on 06/03/2009, -1/+8Patents aren't the way to go. :(
Good job Opera. - ColonelKilkenny, on 06/03/2009, -1/+8The skin is still unfinished (and the whole thing is beta) so perhaps that'll change.
- nehalp100, on 06/03/2009, -0/+7I use both. On a slower computer or a netbook if firefox is slow, Opera runs smoothly, even on 1.6Ghz, I use FF for browsing but i still use Opera Mail.
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -4/+10No, but it has many of the features you'd have to "add on" built into it: ad blocking, torrent client based on bit torrent, all-in-one sidebar, tabbed browsing, you can turn off java scripts a la NoScsript, auto dial( which are like visual bookmarks) , convenient search using abreviations in address bar( just type "g" into the address window+what you're looking for and it will google-search for it) easier to use download manager, etc. All with more speed, less memory use than FF, better rendering, and it's more secure as well.
It just looks more attractive and feels more intuitive and easier to use than FF in my opinion. Don' ttake my word, though. Just check it out for yourself and make up your own mind. Trying a new browser isn't exactly labor-intensive;) - inactive, on 06/03/2009, -7/+13Does it support gay marriage?
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -1/+7I'm dissapointed the preview tabs don't work if the tab bar is placed to the left or right. I though that would have been kind of a given considering the minimum width of it.
- Tocc, on 06/03/2009, -2/+7Your doing the blocking wrong.
http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/ad-block
Takes a bit more work than just installing Ad-block but not much.
Opera is the better out of the box. The only time FF is better is if you have a certain extension you need. Thats why I install them both but use Opera most of the time. - pnrl, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5No problems here. They've implemented HTML5 parsing algorithm (IE-compatible on *invalid* HTML) and have 100/100 in Acid3.
- LordLampshade, on 06/03/2009, -1/+6You've amazed me. I've been sticking with Opera for years now, and have never crashed in the entirety of the time I've used it. I've had Flash and Java cramp out on me, but never Opera itself, and this includes the Beta releases that I've always eagerly moved onto.
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -3/+8hey look another FF fanboy thta'll never get laid.
- pnrl, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5Opera Software is against to patents and proprietary/closed formats, so don't worry.
They'll think of something new before Firefox and IE copy current features ;) - jeremymccurdy, on 06/03/2009, -2/+7Does it have extensions? Honest question here, I really don't know.
- novemberdobby, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5Labeled unique by the users, no doubt.
- Oxidizer, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5works fine for me (Opera9.64)
- Forky, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5How about just using the stuff that works for you and stop caring about what's cool?
- RyomaNagare, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5Opera has always allowed you to install stuff like japanese english dictionary
you can do it trough widgets or webpanels. or userJS bookmarklets.
Also the new version of M2 email client is orders of magnitude better than either vista/osx mail or thunderbird. its impa implementation is much faster and better integrated.
Opera allows you to edit the default behavior of tabs. - inactive, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5Huh? What are you talking about? It renders just fine.
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -9/+14Most of the articles about other browsers could be summed up as "Slower, memory-hogging browser adds new, innovative feature that Opera invented years ago!" And Chrome? Their slogan should be:
Chrome: Because Google hasn't data-mined nearly enough information out of you already. - RyomaNagare, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/os/
- mixxster, on 06/03/2009, -27/+31Dugg but probably still not pulling me from firefox
- Apoy, on 06/03/2009, -0/+4The Opera Turbo feature really makes it fast. Amazing.
- blah667, on 06/03/2009, -0/+4I'll wait with the tab bar until I can have it on the side, or integrated into panels.
- blah667, on 06/03/2009, -0/+4Dictionaries: could be done using UserJS functionality. Case of someone actually doing it, maybe someone did.
Ruby: userjs for that: http://my.opera.com/Kai_Lapis/blog/html-ruby
IE-Tab: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=44 ...
LiveJournal Addons, LJlogin: doable using UserJS. Case of someone actually doing it, maybe someone did.
GaiArch: doable using UserJS. Case of someone actually doing it, maybe someone did.
See? sometimes it's just a case of using some google, or just making the extensions script. -
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