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Opera is Reborn

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Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by claudius »

nonsince wrote: post #59

I really like the concept of bringing i3-style tiling management to the browser space, but why is it specific to messengers? Since most well-designed websites work at any size, couldn't you just have a permanent tab at the side of the screen of, say, twitter, or some browser-based IRC client? Admittedly, I'd probably use facebook messenger as this tab anyway, so my needs are covered, but it seems like a missed opport…

Ironically, the old Opera did have this feature, where you could arrange tabs side-by-side within the browser window…

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by nly »

nonsince wrote: post #59

I really like the concept of bringing i3-style tiling management to the browser space, but why is it specific to messengers? Since most well-designed websites work at any size, couldn't you just have a permanent tab at the side of the screen of, say, twitter, or some browser-based IRC client? Admittedly, I'd probably use facebook messenger as this tab anyway, so my needs are covered, but it seems like a missed opport…

Opera had tiling some 12-15 years ago. By default tabs were just 'maximized' to the full window, and they made it harder and harder to access with subsequent versions. I'm not even sure if it made it to the latest presto release (version 12).

Edit: the Wikipedia page shows tiling in Opera 1.0 in 1995... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Opera_web_brows...

I'm with you though. I dumped Opera the moment they became a featureless skin around Chrome. Such a sad event

Operas best days were the early to mid 2000s

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by mih »

jameskegel wrote: post #2

I was under the impression that the rebirth of Opera Browser was Vivaldi, but it seems I was wrong. Bravo, guys. Nice work.

True. For fans of Opera 12.x, Vivaldi is the reborn Opera. Though resource heavy and lacking a few features compared to the original Opera, Vivaldi is now stable enough to be my daily driver.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by camus2 »

analogmemory wrote: post #47

If I ignore your weird racist overtones. Why would you trust Google/Apple/Firefox more?

Both Firefox and Chromium are open source so you can compile them yourself. Opera never was AFAIK. I still use Opera Mini on Mobile though, because it has an ad-blocker that saves me hundreds of Mb on my data plan each month.

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Post by rcgs »

I think this is the 3rd or 4th time Opera has been reborn in recent memory? I actually quite like where they're going with the user experience. But who owns Opera now?

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Post by [deleted] »

robjan wrote: post #41
mtgx wrote: post #38

I gave up using Opera for good once it was acquired by the Chinese.

Why do people say "the Chinese" as if Chinese people are some scary, out of this world concept or they are some kind of James Bond villain.

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