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Why Opera?
« on: April 02, 2009, 01:25:57 AM »
Well, I've gone Opera.  Looks neat.  Not sure if I like it more than FireFox. 

What do you like about Opera?  Any cool features I need to check out?

The one thing I really like is the Speed Dial.  I only wish I could set it as my homepage.   =(
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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2009, 01:49:47 AM »
I liked Opera because it was efficient with the code, and ran smoothly on limited-hardware computers. 

I haven't played with the most recent versions to see if they remain bloat-free, but I had it running pretty well on an HP Celeron 350/Windows 98 combination.  It was one of the floor machines at work, and a hardware upgrade wasn't in the plans... 
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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2009, 05:11:17 AM »
The childish absence of keyboard navigation means I won't waste any time on it.
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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2009, 07:11:19 AM »
I don't know how it runs on older hardware, but Google Chrome was the hands down fastest browser I've ever used. 

Though I wouldn't call it "childish", I too didn't like Opera's lack of keyboard navigation.

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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2009, 10:30:08 AM »
I like gesture navigation.
I like being able to have no tabs open (don't ask me why but I do).
I like speed dial.
I also liked being able to easily change the meta browser identification, but they seem to have taken that feature out.
Only two of those are available as add-ons for Firefox.

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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2009, 10:35:57 AM »
Quote from: bmitchell on April 02, 2009, 10:30:08 AM
I like gesture navigation.

I like being able to have no tabs open (don't ask me why but I do).

I also liked being able to easily change the meta browser identification, but they seem to have taken that feature out.


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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2009, 12:45:05 PM »
I loved Firefox, but the 3.whatever versions are annoying me. I may try out Opera (or Chrome for that matter).
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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2009, 12:54:25 PM »
Quote from: bmitchell on April 02, 2009, 10:30:08 AM
I like gesture navigation.
I like being able to have no tabs open (don't ask me why but I do).
I like speed dial.
I also liked being able to easily change the meta browser identification, but they seem to have taken that feature out.
Only two of those are available as add-ons for Firefox.

Ben

Three of them are add-ons, the other is a setting.
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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2009, 01:08:53 PM »
Firefox has a speed dial? 
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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2009, 01:38:38 PM »
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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2009, 04:03:09 PM »
I didn't know there was an addon to have no open tabs.
The other is a setting - yes, but it was nowhere near as easy as three clicks on a menu.

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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2009, 08:35:13 AM »
Quote from: bmitchell on April 02, 2009, 04:03:09 PM
I didn't know there was an addon to have no open tabs.
The other is a setting - yes, but it was nowhere near as easy as three clicks on a menu.

Ben

Heh.  I thought the no open tabs thing was a setting.

Edit -> Preferences -> Tabs

Which one are you talking about?
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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2009, 09:27:14 AM »
What I mean is that in Opera if I close all my tabs the browser stays open with no tabs, so it's just waiting for a new tab to be opened.
I don't know why I like that but I really do.
I haven't seen a setting like that in any of the options for Firefox.

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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2009, 01:51:11 PM »
Quote from: bmitchell on April 02, 2009, 04:03:09 PM
I didn't know there was an addon to have no open tabs.
The other is a setting - yes, but it was nowhere near as easy as three clicks on a menu.

But with Firefox, you can turn on spell check with a click or two.  Opera makes it complicated. 

Same-same.
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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2009, 04:21:26 PM »
I cheque my own spelling.

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Re: Why Opera?
« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2009, 06:38:02 PM »
Quote from: bmitchell on April 03, 2009, 04:21:26 PM
I cheque my own spelling.

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And a great job you're doing.   :lol: 

I finally dumped Opera, and went back to the fox.  The speed dial was a little harder to set up, but it allows me to use it as my homepage.  Opera didn't seem to allow that.  Seems kinda obvious I would want my browser to open to the gizmo to open to my most-used web pages. 
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