Right, I saw your stupid post and had to register to comment on them. This is the reaction against Opera I usually see on most forums, and that is WRONG.
m33rak said:
opera is ok
opera has no flash [macromedia]
Wrong. Download it from Macromedia. This post is a basic example of "facts" built on your own assumptions. Do you realize that posting such statements, "opera has no flash", is seen as a fact, and spread as a fact? You actually stamp a helluva browser with such junk just due to your stupid assumptions.
Diesel said:
I don't. I see it taking over the majority of techie's browsers, but the common end-user is just going to stick with what MS gives them, which will be IE. They can surf the web, so why install anything new? They're never going to use the extra features of Mozilla, and they're not going to want to install plugins to get similar functionality to what's built into IE.
IE has nothing, absolutely nothing. People use IE just because they, wrongly, think one or more of the following:
- There are no other browsers than IE.
- IE has the best and most standards compliant rendering.
- IE is the only browser that works with HTML pages.
- IE is the only browser that works with your ISP (internet service provider).
- What is a browser?
m33rak said:
opera is netscape based also
Wrong. Opera has an entirely own rendering engine.
People that say that Opera is buggy, too limited, or slow, have either
- Tried a five year old version
- Tried a beta version, like 7 Beta 1 or 7.50 Beta 1.
It is proved that Opera is the fastest browser on earth. It also has features that no other browser has; very comprehensive skinning, ok, almost all browsers and other applications have that. But you can also apply 11 different color schemes to the skin. That is a very unique feature.
People usually base their Firefox usage on its configurability. Firefox is simply the pale Mozilla engine, you need to download zillions of extensions to do anything with it. That's what they call configurability... easy configurability... when you need to download all features you need. The Firefox download size is 6.2 MB, and besides that, you need to download megabytes of extensions. The Opera 7.50 Beta 1 download size is 3.5 MB, it contains all features you just could wish from Firefox's extensions, and besides that, a fully functional email client and news reader - M2 - and an IRC client. Call about a compact, lightweight package! No browser beats that, that's simply a fact.
Oh, poor you, you get too confused with all toolbars and options in Opera, in turn. Then customize the toolbars. You can easily make them look just like you want. You can also download a premade menu set from MyOpera, I use one with an extra Resources menu, with quick WDG and W3C HTML and CSS validation links, a link map to programming resources, a quirks/standards mode informator, and Open in MSIE/Gecko options.
Opera also has a page zoom that zooms everything - very proportionally also, other browsers just resize the text which doesn't look especially cute. Opera remember the 100 last closed pages, so if you close one accidentally, or wish to return one later, just go to the Closed Pages menu. Also, if you terminate Opera unexpectedly (e.g. your computer crashes), when you start Opera again, it remembers all pages you had opened, so you can continue from where you were.
Not to talk about Opera's handy mouse gestures - I'm completely hooked in the Back and Forward features, hold the right mouse button and click the left to go Back. Opera also has a huge load of key combinations... and all that is configurable.
Opera is not especially buggy. It is very standards compliant, and it does it best to support both Mozilla and IE optimized pages. Especially it's JavaScript support is very comprehensive. Opera is full of hidden goodies, read a good article
here to discover everything it can do.
Now, what about that horrible flashy banner ad? True, Opera (unlicensed) has one, but it is just a Google text ad, shown in the upper left toolbar (or wherever you configure it to show). If it really disturbs you... buy an Opera license, it's not especially expensive.
Please feel free to ask more.
Cheers
Jere Purmonen