Comments on: Taking a closer look at the Opera Browser

By: boss

boss — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:03:07 +0000

Opera been inventive everytime sad that there will be firefox extention but , to me Opera will be the favoutite browser.

By: boss

boss — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:01:24 +0000

Wait that mean , I should by the car first and then worry about the engine(feature)
I prefer built in features.
Opera been inventing ( zoom page), other browser copy them without a worry.There should be poatent for designing of the Opera then you all are(firefox gone0 and tell me one feature opera took from firefox browser.
We don’t copy , we invent.
Ok bro I got you.

By: ph

ph — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:52:58 +0000

“So if I want to quickly check only one website, I may be inclined to just use Opera as it will open faster and load faster.”

I usually use Opera with around 40+ tabs open – try to do that on Bloatfox and you will see where Opera really gets useful

By: Manoj

Manoj — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:14:26 +0000

Good point, really.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:40:59 +0000

The test results from this page are interesting – I wonder how the latest beta of Firefox holds up, given that they tested Alpha 7 against Kestrel.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:41:54 +0000

I am an Opera addict. I couple of things I especially like are the multiple document interface setting, being able to have a strike thru visited links and being able to easily able to showing no images, cached images or all images. These and others all add up to a great product!

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:58:36 +0000

I use diigo.com to backup and store my bookmarks. It also can transfer between platforms.

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Alternatives to Your Usual Internet Browser | Windows Linux Mac — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:19:55 +0000

[...] Taking a Closer Look at the Opera Browser [...]

By: Dorne

Dorne — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:23:56 +0000

Sure, Firefox 3 was proven to use less than Opera, but that was before Opera Kestrel Beta. I’m not so sure about the information, but Opera 9.5 (codename Kestrel) seems to be doing well.

http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/

Here is a list of new things from Opera’s Desktop Team
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

By: chuser

chuser — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:05:57 +0000

I use both FF and Opera. One thing I love about Opera is the “Paste and go” function in the google search box.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:32:23 +0000

Sure, we plan to review it in the near future.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:07:44 +0000

@C. M. White

You can update via Firefox with this site:
http://windizupdate.com/

But Maxthon sure has come along way!
You should check out their downloader! Incredible speed there!

By: Viky

Viky — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:34:47 +0000

Opera Rocks…
It’s the Fastest Browser on earth..
simply the best.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:21:27 +0000

@Harsh Karn Firefox 3 uses about half the memory that 2 did, and was also proven to use less than Opera.

By: C. M. White

C. M. White — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:43:06 +0000

I’d love to see a Maxthon article. I just recently discovered it, and it’s pretty amazing. It has a lot of the functionality of Firefox, but it runs on the same engine as IE, so you can do things like run Microsoft Update with it (which you can’t do on FF without the IE tabs extension).

By: Harsh Karn

Harsh Karn — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:53:47 +0000

Opera is just great to use. Before coming to opera I tried firefox but it hogged do much memory, that I dropped it.

Opera works on low memory, even when you have number of tabs open. It has clean look.
And toolbars could be easily rearranged to give much better view (I wanted large screen area). here’s a screenshot of my opera window -

By: Mow3

Mow3 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:33:33 +0000

…and yet, Opera can’t cope with FF community support (extensions, extensions).
I don’t think that I’ll trade FF for any other browser in the near future, sorry.

By: James

James — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:30:15 +0000

I use opera more than any other, and I use it on windoze, ubuntu, debian and mac. I have been using it before firefox was about. Its fast and secure and has inbuilt features you have to ‘add’ in firefox. Don’t get me wrong, firefox is good, its just that I thnk Opera is better.
Thanx for the article, Opera deserves more exposure.

By: Manoj

Manoj — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:09:12 +0000

Opera isn’t a lot like Firefox.Firefox is a lot like Opera
I’ve to agree with Sharon.

By: Manoj

Manoj — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:05:28 +0000

Mate, go get your facts right. Its Firefox and all other browsers that are trying to copy Opera. Opera invented the precursor to tabs (in 1994), Page Zoom (1994), was the first browser to block pop-up ads (2000), first to add a Search field in the browser toolbar (2000), Sessions (1996), deleting private data (2000), Mouse Gestures (2000), User JavaScript (2005), BitTorrent support (2005), Widgets (2006), Speed Dial (2007), and much more.
And, BTW Opera runs perfectly fine on Ubuntu.

See this:
http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?custom=yes

By: Abhijeet from Jeet Blog

Abhijeet from Jeet Blog — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:55:18 +0000

One of the coolest features of Opera which I liked was writing notes in a column alongside the browser. However I did face some problems with Opera like websites were opening slow and sometimes didn’t seem to open at all. Hence I have used Firefox since then

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:59:46 +0000

Yes you can use it with Ubuntu, this link should be useful to you:
http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=linux

By: PeterD

PeterD — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:13:56 +0000

Couldnt makeuseof.com have an Opera article written by someone that actually uses the browser?

By: Ashutosh Mishra

Ashutosh Mishra — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:22:50 +0000

I love Opera and I use it without the widgets – they are just irritating!
But there are lots of inbuilt stuff in Opera – inbuilt BitTorrent client (and it’s FAST), email client (not robust but good enough and again FAST), speed dial (The Firefox add-on clone sucks), IRC client (very useful as I am frequent visitor to the Ubuntu channels for my problems), feed reader (much better than Live Bookmarks in Firefox), skinnable interface (pretty good skins) and more configuration options.
I would say Opera beats Firefox but for the addons…

By: Koselara

Koselara — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:22:37 +0000

Also, in addition to the extension (I think there might even be more than one) there are a few websites offering that functionality, either with the locations saved to the hard drive or having them saved to a free account on the site. Two I know of offhand are Only2Clicks.com and Homepagestartup.com — there are more, but I can’t recall their addresses or what search strings bring them up in Google.

By: FekketCantenel

FekketCantenel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:32:28 +0000

This article failed to mention three of my favorite features:

1) creating custom searches from almost any searchbox, which I think Firefox might be able to do, but I’m not sure,
2) the mail/newsfeeds panel, one of my own greatest reasons for using Opera, and
3) Greasemonkey/UserJS scripts, which Opera (like Firefox) supports.

I hope to see these (and the many other) features mentioned in a future post.

By: Adi

Adi — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:02:29 +0000

I feel like Opera is just trying to be a clone of Firefox.
I have a doubt can we use Opera in Ubuntu?

By: Ellie

Ellie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:02:00 +0000

I was never able to figure out Opera because I like the extensions from Firefox, and I don’t think widgets do the same things. If they do, someone clue me in!

By: Sharon D

Sharon D — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:52:22 +0000

Opera isn’t a lot like Firefox.Firefox is a lot like Opera.
Most of Firefox features,including speed dial have been on Opera for a long time
.Except with Firefox,the features are mostly extensions.
I use both and IE 7 (if I have to)
I prefer Firefox ’cause I’m hooked on the extensions,but Opera is a close second.
Opera’s widgets are horrible !!!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:20:20 +0000

Good article, though I’m going to stick with firefox. For the record you can get the speed dial feature as an add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810