Whenever I am in low bandwidth connection I use opera with turbo enabled. Plus it has low memory footprint than chrome and firefox. Also it has some unique feature like fit to width and show/hide image.
Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?
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Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?
#42I was not able to use Opera at work for years because of lack of socks proxy support. With each release I would download Opera, install it, check that it still doesn't have socks support and gave up.
Using SocksCap or FreeCap for that was just annoying.
After some time I stopped caring about Opera. Now, I don't even bother to test on it.
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#43Opera is one of those things that I have really tried to like, but that just never really caught on. It's like when you are picking a movie: that intellectual foreign movie has been in your queue for a week, but you are tired so you just grab the nearest retarded Michael Bay movie to relax. The few times I used Opera I really liked it. I think the guys behind the browser are very innovative and it's a shame that they…
> it's a shame that they seem to be always running behind on standards compliance, causing all kinds of problems in daily usage.
It feels a bit to me like you're reiterating a myth. I've used opera for 5 years and I've never run into this, afair. I virtually only get problems when devs use browser detection and then tell me that "this site does not work on opera". I've also had problems with sites that were just only tested on Firefox (used to be IE but the short-sighted devs all switched browser), but there it didn't work on Chrome either.
Of course, this is just anecdotal evidence, but I think comments like yours are what keeps some people from trying out an excellent browser that does what you want and nothing else.
The only thing that I think really rocks more in Chrome is its super-smooth and entirely hidden auto-updating mechanism.
Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?
#44Opera is one of those things that I have really tried to like, but that just never really caught on. It's like when you are picking a movie: that intellectual foreign movie has been in your queue for a week, but you are tired so you just grab the nearest retarded Michael Bay movie to relax. The few times I used Opera I really liked it. I think the guys behind the browser are very innovative and it's a shame that they…
In daily use, it seems pretty much the other way around. Opera supports standards, but everyone else goes beyond them.
Also, it's about time feature detection became mainstream because whitelisting certain browsers almost always means forgetting about Opera.
Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?
#45I really despise all kinds of "built in features". I never use any of them. I much prefer a browser like chrome that is bare minimum. The only plugin I use is Lastpass.
Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?
#46i made the switch to opera as my main browser a little while ago, but website incompatibilities (lot of them links from right here!) forced me back to firefox
but for those, the experience was good enough to make me consider switching completely
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#47I might use it on the Desktop more if they would fix the annoying bug where the number of items don't appear next to the feed in Google Reader!
EVERY new version they put out I check and am disappointed.
Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?
#48Opera is one of those things that I have really tried to like, but that just never really caught on. It's like when you are picking a movie: that intellectual foreign movie has been in your queue for a week, but you are tired so you just grab the nearest retarded Michael Bay movie to relax. The few times I used Opera I really liked it. I think the guys behind the browser are very innovative and it's a shame that they…
I always thought Opera was very standards compliant.
Potentially there are some shortcomings when it comes to new technologies which I'm going to sweepingly categorise as being HTML5 related, but that gets into a separate argument that HTML5 is still not yet a standard.
At the same time, for "everyday use" (whatever that really means) I've had no issue with standards compliance, and Opera does certainly have support some some not-yet-standardised things. Of course, there's the usual caveat that YMMV.
May I ask what issues you have with their falling behind on standards compliance?
Re: Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?
#49I don't use Opera and I never test it because the user base is not big enough to matter. My experience with Opera has always resulted in broken websites because of their poor rendering engine (in my opinion). I still can't believe the Opera browser has existed from the beginning of browsers and still exists today and their market share hasn't really gone up significantly.
Sadly there's a vicious cycle of Opera having small marketshare, being ignored, causing it to keep small market share.
Opera's biggest problem is lack of support for -webkit-* properties, they only support unprefixed ones or -o-* ;)
Honestly, the engine is quite good. For Opera web standards support is a matter of life and death (they know they don't have market share to get sites being bug-compatible with them) and they put lots of effort into getting things right.
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#50I tried to get into Opera Mini. I liked it because it is speedier than the stock Android browser, it handles tabs well, and the interface does pretty much what I expect most of the time. But I found that on a weak wireless signal it would just give up on loading the page, and its startup time was just enough to make it cumbersome. It has since been removed from my phone.