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"Installable web apps". The author doesn't seem to be up to speed. Opera has announced widget support will be dropped, along with Unite applications. http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/04/24/increased-fo... I guess this decision could be reversed if Facebook buys Opera.
And Opera used to have a widget manager embedded in its browser, so it wouldn’t be too hard to dust it off and restart the project.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use Firefox on my Android. It's a little heavy but it's OK. I like it a lot because I'm a desktop Firefox user and it knows how to sync my bookmarks and my saved forms data and my history back and forth. The UI is also much better than Android's built-in browser and it's been making a lot of progress. I think people are not seeing the forest from the trees here. Firefox has a lot of potential on mobile phones, beca…
Gecko will NEVER render on a feature phone. The Mozilla team has repeated this statement again and again.
[1] http://www.gsmarena.com/1ghz_s40based_nokia_c3015_pictures_s...
Add to Chrome mouse gestures, and i will change browser.
And single key shortcuts!
Then I might switch.
I still don't see the value in it. It made sense when Google did it. Chrome came and shook things up introducing features no existing browsers had and placing an emphasis on JavaScript speed. This was critical for Google as a number of its apps make heavy use of it. I don't use Chrome anymore, I switched back to Firefox but its undeniable that it had a massive impact on the speed of browser development and probably t…
Please, elaborate. The only feature I know is exclusive to Chrome is full page translation (since they own Google Translate it makes sense).
What else?
"Installable web apps". The author doesn't seem to be up to speed. Opera has announced widget support will be dropped, along with Unite applications. http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/04/24/increased-fo... I guess this decision could be reversed if Facebook buys Opera.
From the article: And Opera used to have a widget manager embedded in its browser, so it wouldn’t be too hard to dust it off and restart the project.
It still does. The upcoming Opera 12 will not have it. The author makes a reference to the fact that the widgets have not been receiving proper attention since they were launched and need dusting off.
My point is widgets are (and have been) basically dead, at least in terms of popularity. I'm not sure Facebook execs are aware of their existence, so it's probably unlikely they have a future. Just have to wait and see.
I still don't see the value in it. It made sense when Google did it. Chrome came and shook things up introducing features no existing browsers had and placing an emphasis on JavaScript speed. This was critical for Google as a number of its apps make heavy use of it. I don't use Chrome anymore, I switched back to Firefox but its undeniable that it had a massive impact on the speed of browser development and probably t…
> introducing features no existing browsers had Please, elaborate. The only feature I know is exclusive to Chrome is full page translation (since they own Google Translate it makes sense). What else?
Sandboxing for individual tabs
Ability to drag tabs between windows
Isn't each tab a process or something so when you close it memory is freed?
I am sure there are some other things. This is all I can think of off the top my head.
I still don't see the value in it. It made sense when Google did it. Chrome came and shook things up introducing features no existing browsers had and placing an emphasis on JavaScript speed. This was critical for Google as a number of its apps make heavy use of it. I don't use Chrome anymore, I switched back to Firefox but its undeniable that it had a massive impact on the speed of browser development and probably t…
> introducing features no existing browsers had Please, elaborate. The only feature I know is exclusive to Chrome is full page translation (since they own Google Translate it makes sense). What else?
Re Opera Mini and them having no competition in proxying browsers: Nokia's S40 Browser actually does proxying these days. This was released as a beta in late 2010, and is now the default in all S40 phones. ( http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-browser-for-series-40-b... ) It's not a proper competitor of course, as one cannot install it to phones by other manufacturers, but it does still cover a pretty big chunk of t…
"Installable web apps". The author doesn't seem to be up to speed. Opera has announced widget support will be dropped, along with Unite applications. http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/04/24/increased-fo... I guess this decision could be reversed if Facebook buys Opera.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> introducing features no existing browsers had Please, elaborate. The only feature I know is exclusive to Chrome is full page translation (since they own Google Translate it makes sense). What else?
I thought that they introduced. Sandboxing for individual tabs Ability to drag tabs between windows Isn't each tab a process or something so when you close it memory is freed? I am sure there are some other things. This is all I can think of off the top my head.
My point is that saying "Chrome came and shook things up introducing features no existing browsers had" is a bit of a stretch. When it came out Chrome was basically not very different from Internet Explorer 6 (feature-wise), and it seems to have stayed that way (I like full page translation but that's it).
We should be fair and say that Google Chrome has a large market share because it has Google behind it. It doesn't have much else going for it.