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- ziple, on 04/25/2008, -7/+68Fox will survive :) But its nice that a new Opera is on its way.
- whiteeagle131, on 04/25/2008, -0/+582 great things came out today:
1) Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Herron (Final)
2) Opera 9.5 Kestrel (Beta)
P.S. See the guided tour to Kestrel: http://www.dailymotion.com/operasoftware/video/x56 ... - ktswami, on 04/25/2008, -12/+65The address bar history search is amazingly useful...! FF add-on guys, start your copiers!
- phoenixp3k, on 04/25/2008, -3/+49Well, Opera introduced this feature in it's very first builds of Kestrel, then I noticed that Firefox decided to add a similar feature in the Firefox 3 code. *Let the browser flame wars begin*
- jp10558, on 04/25/2008, -1/+33I don't think most Opera users are Elitist any more than Firefox users are. Of course, the propogandizers are similar to Asa - out there to "spread the word". But most users I talk to just find Opera fits them more than Firefox does. I fully expect there are many users, likely more users, who will fit Firefox's model better.
What I do find annoying though is the idea that Firefox is/should be the one true browser when there's good things to be said about Opera, Safari, Konqurer, Flock and hell, on Vista even IE7 (well, as much as you might ever say anything is good about that unholy combination).
I think many savvy web users don't want another IE over Netscape victory where Firefox takes over - we want to be able to use the Web on the browser we want on the device we want. - lilmoder, on 04/25/2008, -47/+78Kestrel gonna kill fox.
- Makaveli604, on 04/25/2008, -1/+26This attitude is terribly ironic.
Who needs an opensource browser, we have IE. - ByteGuerilla, on 04/25/2008, -0/+23Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that WebKit was the engine behind Safari.
- Krpano, on 04/25/2008, -8/+30Can Opera get better than it already is ?
Imo, its the best/most useful piece of software for Windows. - TiKoZ, on 04/25/2008, -1/+22http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
- SciFctn, on 04/25/2008, -0/+21most bodacious opera feature:
right click in search bars -> Paste and Go
paste and go shreds. - coheedcollapse, on 04/25/2008, -23/+41Until opera is completely extensible, I'm not buying into it.
Also, I have a perfectly capable system, and while the browser itself is fast and takes up little memory compared to alternatives, I always feel it lagging when loading pages. I have no idea why this is, it just feels slower (even though I know in multiple instances it's been proven to be faster or at least just as fast as competing browsers).
Last, although it doesn't really affect my choice to stay with Firefox at all, I'm annoyed by the elitist tone that Opera users take. Like I'm stupid and uninformed for using Firefox. It can get old. - ktswami, on 04/25/2008, -8/+26I knew it wouldn't take long until we had to hear about FF "already got it, man!" horsesh--. First of all, if you're using FF, that's great, because IE is about making users vulnerable and stupid, and developers crazy because of IE-standard code.
But, more importantly: No, FF didn't actually have it first. Reading is a precious gift. Opera v9.5 beta2 lets you search entire web pages in your cache from your address bar, not just the titles and URLs. Read it again, please...I'll wait.............................................so, please save everyone the inane comments. FF3 is cool, but it doesn't mean it's the leader in browser innovation, especially when FFoxtards think it still has ads or there's a new add-on tomorrow that mimics 25% of the new, useful feature that Opera just put out... - ohnnyj, on 04/25/2008, -0/+16They need a Firebug equivalent.
- Makaveli604, on 04/25/2008, -1/+17Holy *****! The "Opera Link" feature looks amazing, I've never seen it before.
- Makaveli604, on 04/25/2008, -2/+18yes? All the versions are.
- amadeusdemarzi, on 04/25/2008, -0/+16You know, I am a mac user, but I am embarrassed you are too :(
- myshl0ng, on 04/25/2008, -9/+25Once you go Opera, you don`t wanna go back.
- Skootles, on 04/25/2008, -2/+18.....
- LouisC, on 04/25/2008, -1/+16It's a good feature, so Firefox implemented it too. Not really a big deal. I'm sure Firefox has some features that Opera implemented as well. All the browser makers share ideas, it's not considered "copying" or anything like that.
That said, I use Opera. - Krpano, on 04/25/2008, -3/+17Man, you dont like widgets, dont use it.
Thats not an excuse to skip Opera. - trakie, on 04/25/2008, -3/+17wheres the 64 bit version? i guess those of use on 64bit machines are doomed to use 32 bit programs forever
- Needles13, on 04/25/2008, -1/+15I care.
- lazyleo, on 04/25/2008, -2/+14I use Opera as a proxy browser, and this latest beta is the fastest till date. Kudos to the Opera team the cache issue seems distant now.
- fkr3, on 04/25/2008, -11/+23Right..... years later Firefox hasn't blown anything but earlier versions of itself away.
- svivian, on 04/25/2008, -1/+13Like you've ever done anything with the Firefox source code...
- Ramzy, on 04/25/2008, -2/+13Doesn't Opera have a content blocking feature that allows for wildcards?
I haven't used Opera in donkey years, but i'm pretty damned sure I saw that feature in the right click context menu. - TehMCP, on 04/25/2008, -2/+13Firefox 3 is the first release that's been faster than Opera. Since the beta is (theoretically) faster than the stable release, I expect that Kestrel will be faster than Firefox 3. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Especially the presence of ignorant ***** on digg.
- inactive, on 04/25/2008, -5/+16shut up.
- barktwiggs, on 04/25/2008, -2/+12http://dragonfly.opera.com/
Can you wait for 11 days? - insertAliasHere, on 04/25/2008, -0/+10You aren't wrong.
fanboy + troll + uninformed = macmangb - tripitaka, on 04/25/2008, -6/+15awesome!
@stutimandal
I use host file for ad blocking on my windows xp system. Works perfectly fine for me. And there's a feature from Opera that allows you to rightclick, add to blocked content that you can give a try too. - shawn1122, on 04/25/2008, -3/+12Opera has always rendered pages faster for me than any of the other browsers. To me that is a big deal because I am on a pretty slow pentium 3 computer, so I'm trying to juice as much out of it as I can get. I will admit the extensions in Firefox have tempted me many times, and many times I've considered switching, but in the end the speed of the page loading is what matters most to me personally, so Opera is the browser I roll with. Sometimes I wish there was a way to have Opera and Firefox together as one browser...
- inactive, on 04/25/2008, -11/+20Firefox is the new IE. It's marketed as "the most fast an secure browser", and it's funny how many fools buy into it.
Opera invents the features, Firefox steals them.
Opera 4 lyfe. - rockefeller2, on 04/25/2008, -1/+10I love Opera's mouse gestures. Firefox tried to copy, but failed. But why do I have to click "Back" like 5 times before it actually goes back while on Digg?
- Jarasmen, on 04/25/2008, -1/+10No, you don't. -> http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/
- coheedcollapse, on 04/25/2008, -1/+10I have Firefox, Flock, and IE7 on my Windows partition and Firefox and Konquerer on my Linux partition. All of them have their benefits, but I always go back to Firefox. While Firefox is most definitely NOT the only option, nor should it ever be, I still like it the best.
I even have good things to say about the new IE. It's not the best, but its worlds upon worlds better than previous Internet explorers. - OneLess, on 04/25/2008, -2/+11A cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackal!
- anotheraddict, on 04/25/2008, -0/+9Don't know if this is just for me, but Opera finally loads flash correctly for me (Ubuntu 8.04 user), I've been wanting to try this browser out for a long time, and with this release I will apparently be given my chance. I don't honestly know if its because I upgraded to 8.04 today, or if it was the new version of Opera but in any event, I'm happy I can try this browser out now!
- noisewar, on 04/25/2008, -4/+12Excellent! Downloading now.
- jp10558, on 04/25/2008, -1/+9Well, seeing as I find O9.27 faster than FF 2.0.0.14 and Kestral is way faster than O9.27 ... yes?
- fkr3, on 04/25/2008, -16/+24The only thing Firefox had first were memory leaks and stability issues. Opera devs were too stupid to figure out how to clone it though.
- jp10558, on 04/25/2008, -0/+8Opera's had anti-phishing since what, 9.10 or so?
- ktswami, on 04/25/2008, -2/+10No, keep using FF2 because it's faster AND it's memory management is very low......oh, sorry, there was a teeny, tiny memory leak that FF3 fixes, but nothing that eats up all your RAM.
Come on, what do you think Opera developers are doing ALL day?? They write their own libraries to make the Opera/Windows install size TINY, ~3.6M, I think. And super fast. The Mac and Linux versions are great, also! Opera Mini was cool on my phone too, but the screen was useless to do any useful browsing.
If you're using FF that's great. But do you think it might be worth maybe TRYING Opera at least? For two days, to see how fast it may be or if it saves you a bunch of keystrokes and time, every day you need to be online? Go download it and check it out...! - farboo, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7Opera is big in the mobile market; they make browsers for cell phones and other portable devices. So this identifies it as the browser for desktop OSs.
- Ramzy, on 04/25/2008, -3/+10Do you seriously need your browser to inform you that the email you got from Lord Mugumbo, heir to the throne of Nigeria, who, for some reason, decided that it would be necessary to transfer millions of Nigerian dollars to your account due to civil unrest, is actually a lie?
- sagat, on 04/25/2008, -1/+8After using Opera for quite some time I have difficulty when put in front of a different browser. the mouse gestures have become such a natural part of my browsing habit that I find it frustrating not to have them.
- xErath, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7Digg has many iframes with scripts writing stuff into them due to ads, which stack in the history.
- Izzie, on 04/25/2008, -1/+7opera url filtering abilities since v 6.02: http://www.schrode.net/opera/url_filtering/index.h ... which is about a couple years before firefox was even released.
for more adblock for opera you can also check: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/ad-block or the opera wiki: http://operawiki.info/BlockAdvertisements
flashblock for opera 9: http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera ... - kiwimonk, on 04/25/2008, -5/+11I was gonna download it, but their site worked so well in my current browser. why bother? maybe they should have their site skank out when you visit with competitors browsers.
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