they should open the source already
Opera is Reborn
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Re: Opera is Reborn
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I can have it as a sidebar to the web browser, this actually solves multiple problems, biggest of which is screens themselves. Someone, somewhen, had that bright idea of popularizing 16:9 and 16:10 screens, which are now de-facto standard, and that leads to huge amounts of screen estate being wasted. Most of the users (i.e. those not using tiling window managers on Linux systems) don't have proper tools to manage…
There's nothing stopping you having a messenger window and a browser window open side by side. You don't have to combine disparate applications into a single application just to show them both on the screen at once.
True, if your WM doesn't suck, which rules out Windows and MacOS (ok, for the former someone wrote a tiling WM overlay in... AutoHotkey). Otherwise it's annoying hassle to keep the windows properly sized and displayed.
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#173Slightly offtopic, did entire Opera development moved to Poland? Is that part of new strategy under new owner or was it like that for a long time?
The core team in Oslo got laid off after the webkit switch in 2013, not sure how many remained in the other teams. But as far as I know there is nothing but sales and admin left in Norway now.
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#174Opera used to be amazing, a few years ago it had a built in RSS, mail and IRC client, then even later (and right before the acquisition) they were still ahead with their UX by having a "Read Later" section to the browser and allowing you to easily customise and make folders in your "first page". Now its just a mess and Vivaldi is not much better.
opera is not a mess--it is the best of the browsers...i use it as default browser on my desktop...opera is easily better than chrome or firefox...has far far fewer issues and slowdowns and freezes and crashes...opera is a great browser...
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#175If I ignore your weird racist overtones. Why would you trust Google/Apple/Firefox more?
Please don't mark people you don't agree with as racist.
Racism is hate due to (tl;dr) skin colour and/or ethnicity.
The comment you don't agree with quoted nationality (a totally different subject).
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
You've never been to a farmer's market? There's a thing called "chilling effects". People stop talking about "risky" subjects because they know they can get prosecuted arbitrarily for it. The gameplan is simple: * Someone says something the government doesn't like. * A plan is devised to get this person in jail and/or to discredit them and/or to ruin their careers. * In the case of jail, evidence for a crime is colle…
> It's not out in the open, but it has similar effects to totalitarianism It's a very different thing, simply because it cannot be deployed on a large scale. It's equivalent to old-school spycraft of honey-trapping and blackmailing. You can apply this process to a few individuals, but not to everyone without massive effort - the framing and follow-up takes too much manpower - and without risking reputation damage fro…
>On the other hand, detecting you really broke an openly-accepted law, triggering police intervention and letting the system work as it should, is trivial in the extreme.
Yes, but on the other hand, speaking of "detecting you really broke an openly-accepted law", China has 1/2 or 1/3 the prison population per citizens that the US has (which is the world leader in this regard, with 25% of the worlds prison population for just 4-5% of its general population).
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#177How is it possible that Opera got all my saved passwords and sh*t from Chrome? I did not authorize this during install.
You probably clicked Accept and Install. "Import bookmarks and data" is under options in the first screen of the installer and ticked by default.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's nothing stopping you having a messenger window and a browser window open side by side. You don't have to combine disparate applications into a single application just to show them both on the screen at once.
True, if your WM doesn't suck , which rules out Windows and MacOS (ok, for the former someone wrote a tiling WM overlay in... AutoHotkey). Otherwise it's annoying hassle to keep the windows properly sized and displayed.
And for the latter, you have Moom, kwm, amethyst, divvy, Better(Snap|Touch)Tool, Slate, Breeze, etc.
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#179> Browsing and chatting simultaneously is cumbersome and inefficient now, as you need to switch between tabs when responding to a message. We believe this needs to change.
Then:
>If you use more than one messenger, you can easily switch between them by using our shortcut key for quicker access (⌘ + ⇧ + m on macOS, CTRL + SHIFT + m on Windows and Linux).
So, why would this be any better than switching tabs? One thing about a browser, I usually have my hand on my mouse and not the keyboard.
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#180> Social messengers completely changed our lives, by allowing us to work, discover new things and communicate at the same time. Nope. > One of its novelties is the ability to seamlessly hop between discovering new content and chatting with friends, or even share online discoveries while browsing. Happily I know no one that uses, or will use, this new version of Opera - I can imagine few things that would disrupt, ann…
> > Social messengers completely changed our lives, by allowing us to work, discover new things and communicate at the same time.
> Nope.
Considering how much HN loves Slack (especially when paired with working remotely), I think you and I are in the minority. Some people can chat and work at the same time, apparently.