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Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

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

#26
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This poll will have a huge bias because Opera Users are going to be more likely to respond to it.

How else would you ask this question to obtain an unbiased response?

Maybe just ask which browser people use from a selection, obviously including Opera as an option.

Edit: OT, but it would be interesting to do this in the near future to compare and see how much bias there really is in this poll.

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

#27
I voted for main browser (desktop), but it's not entirely true.

At work, IE8 is mandated (though I did manage to score Chromium recently and switch over).

At home, I've kept the same Opera session alive for the past year and a half. I use Opera for the sites that I never really leave, just refresh every morning and evening. Many of the tabs have been open for the entire time.

But when I just want to pop into a site for a little while, like HN or something, I open Chrome. It feels so much faster even though it probably isn't in absolute terms. (Also, I operate one Twitter account from Opera and another from Chrome, so it's convenient to have two browsers anyway.)

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

#29
I used to, because I loved the keyboard-only navigation (and Vimperator required me to hit number keys accurately, which is kind of awkward). Vimium on Chrome has left me only a few reasons to use Opera (mouse gestures, bookmark syncing), and they just aren't important enough.
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