Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

#11

Post by devaholic » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:28 PM UTC

I think Opera and Google Chrome combined would make the best browser. Opera has some great UX benefits over chrome, but completely lacks in some obvious ones. The toolbar, homepage setup, settings, buttons, tabs, are all superior in Opera hands down (in my opinion of course). Chrome wins with it's highlight + right-click + actions, obvious hotkeys, developer tools, and many other intricacies that Opera misses or handles poorly (for instance I cannot even stretch out a textarea in Opera).

I use Opera, Chrome and Firefox equally. I use every other browser too for testing.

Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

#12

Post by zobzu » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:28 PM UTC

The mobile version of opera on android is actually very, very good. I'd recommend checking it out if you haven't. And i'm not an opera desktop user.

Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

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Post by sid0 » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:33 PM UTC

I use it for short sessions on mobile, when I know I'll spend less time than it takes Fennec to load.

Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

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Post by tsewlliw » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:34 PM UTC

I discovered my biggest complaint about Opera last night: It's not completely obvious how to set up a SOCKS5 proxy.

In Firefox it's as buried as you'd expect, but at least I never give up on it and use ssh/w3m to access private network sites.

Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

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Post by jeromeparadis » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:35 PM UTC

I haven't used Opera for nearly a decade.

Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

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Post by simonsarris » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:35 PM UTC

I only use it for testing.

It is easily the worst browser with respect to Canvas performance. It is almost always an order of magnitude slower than IE9, FF5, and Chrome 14.

Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

#17

Post by pppp » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:36 PM UTC

I used Chrome for over a year and just recently went back to Opera. I have open bug reports for various bookmark problems in Chrome that have been ignored by the Chrome developers for several versions now. The chrome bookmarks code (and syncing) just needs to be thrown out and rewritten. It's a steaming pile of dung. I've even tried deleting them wholesale and letting chrome resync the whole bunch - it will only sync 100 per day as some sort of throttling mechanism, so it took a month for all of them to synchronize.

I do run into an occasional problem with Opera, for example, in Google docs, you can't upload a document. But for me, bookmarks are very important (I have over 5 thousand of them) and chrome can't handle them correctly.

Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

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Post by quux » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:37 PM UTC

I use opera occasionally on my iPhone. Most common use case is when I'm playing a stream or podcast directly in Safari and I want to surf at the same time. Opera is surprisingly fast and works well considering that all the rendering is done remotely.

Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

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Post by niels_olson » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:39 PM UTC

pppp wrote: post #17

I used Chrome for over a year and just recently went back to Opera. I have open bug reports for various bookmark problems in Chrome that have been ignored by the Chrome developers for several versions now. The chrome bookmarks code (and syncing) just needs to be thrown out and rewritten. It's a steaming pile of dung. I've even tried deleting them wholesale and letting chrome resync the whole bunch - it will only sync…

I fired chrome's bookmark sync and went back to xmarks. Works much better, though even xmarks still complains about chrome bookmark sync interfering (how? it's supposedly turned off) and asks me to redownload my bookmarks to one machine or another.

Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

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Post by tintin » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:45 PM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #16

I only use it for testing. It is easily the worst browser with respect to Canvas performance. It is almost always an order of magnitude slower than IE9, FF5, and Chrome 14.

I use it as my main browser. Never had problems with canvas performance. Most websites don't use canvas anyway.

I tried almost all browsers (except Safari) and the latest versions (>9) got me hooked. I like the screenshots inside the tabs (when you drag them down). It is looking clean, doing what I want, nice developer tools. I like it a lot!