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Title: Why Opera?
Post by: Perd Hapley 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. =(
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: Gewehr98 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...
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: Standing Wolf on April 02, 2009, 05:11:17 AM: The childish absence of keyboard navigation means I won't waste any time on it.
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: mtnbkr 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.

Chris
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: Perd Hapley 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.

And you lost me. =)
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: Balog 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).
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: CNYCacher 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.
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: Perd Hapley on April 02, 2009, 01:08:53 PM: Firefox has a speed dial?
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: CNYCacher on April 02, 2009, 01:38:38 PM: Quote from: Tactical Pants is my name. on April 02, 2009, 01:08:53 PM
Firefox has a speed dial?

http://addons.mozilla.org/speed_dial (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=speed+dial+for+firefox)
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: CNYCacher 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?
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: bmitchell 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.

Ben
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: Perd Hapley 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.
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: bmitchell on April 03, 2009, 04:21:26 PM: I cheque my own spelling.

Ben
Title: Re: Why Opera?
Post by: Perd Hapley on April 11, 2009, 06:38:02 PM: Quote from: bmitchell on April 03, 2009, 04:21:26 PM
I cheque my own spelling.

Ben

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.