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Re: Face opera

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Post by ZenPsycho »

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #68
ZenPsycho wrote: post #53

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http://www.google.com/history

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a Google Search thing, not a Chrome thing? The Google toolbar in Firefox had the option to upload your browser's entire history to the Search History site, but that's not built into Chrome, afaik. Chrome does have a sync service, but it requires user action to activate, allows the user to pick what they want synced, and allows syncing omnibox history, not the complete browser h…

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Post by chewxy »

apawloski wrote: post #77
rplnt wrote: post #15

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Sadly, there is no viable alternative. I use Chrome as my second browser, I occasionally use Firefox and although they are both great browsers, they offer nothing close to Opera. No configurability whatsoever and no extra features you are accustomed to.

Why would you use Chrome, but not the potential FB Opera? Google has just as much of a stake in your information as Facebook, but that hasn't led to their browser being a privacy vulnerability.

exactly why I use Chrome for my gmail, and not day to day browsing. It may be irrational, but prevalent nonetheless

Re: Face opera

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Post by kh812000 »

What people are looking at is the obvious= browser.

I surmise the real reason for Facebook to buy Opera is not that. Opera owns the #1 mobile ad mediation platform : AdMarvel and has augmented it with Mobile Theory and 4th Screen Advertising.

THAT IS THE KEY. MOBILE MONETIZATION VIA ANALYTICS OF FB DATA AND ADMARVEL.

Re: Face opera

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Post by tjoff »

apawloski wrote: post #109
tjoff wrote: post #108

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We probably just have different ideas of what it takes to "define the future of the internet". Pretty much nothing that amazon does will ever affect me personally, nothing wrong with that - amazon aren't even trying to define future of the internet in my eyes. If amazon as a hosting company tries to interfere with their customers you bet they will be abandoned ASAP, doesn't matter if amazon has the best web hosting s…

Well to be honest, I never tried to assert that Amazon was "defining the future of the internet." I was disagreeing with your point that Amazon shouldn't even be compared to Facebook, Apple, Google, or Microsoft. And to be fair, instead of noting Amazon's horizontal stretch, I pigeonholed myself talking about AWS (which by the way, is more than web hosting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#List_of_AWS…

Well, in hindsight I might have been a bit unclear but it was in that context that I made my comment(s). I sure recognize Amazon as a company (and eagerly await the day I have a project that is suited for EC2).

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Post by gnoupi »

deno wrote: post #47
Tomis02 wrote: post #33

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And vertical multi-column tabs! And good performance for 100+ tabs on single core CPU-s! And speed dial! And integrated email/RSS client! And trash can! And notes! And so many more. Then I might switch.

You can get very very close to Opera features with Firefox extensions. For mouse gestures there’s an extensions called FireGestures. It’s actually more configurable than Opera’s. Speed dial is in Aurora, but it’s very basic right now. The rest I didn’t use/care, but I can recall there being an extension for every one of those things. Not saying Firefox is better than Opera necessarily, it's just that Firefox is quite…

The problem is that by the time you reached the functionality of Opera with extensions, your browser is bloated and takes ages to load, and a large chunk of RAM.

Re: Face opera

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Post by deno »

gnoupi wrote: post #115
deno wrote: post #47

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You can get very very close to Opera features with Firefox extensions. For mouse gestures there’s an extensions called FireGestures. It’s actually more configurable than Opera’s. Speed dial is in Aurora, but it’s very basic right now. The rest I didn’t use/care, but I can recall there being an extension for every one of those things. Not saying Firefox is better than Opera necessarily, it's just that Firefox is quite…

The problem is that by the time you reached the functionality of Opera with extensions, your browser is bloated and takes ages to load, and a large chunk of RAM.

I’d have agreed with you just a year ago, but not anymore. Firefox made TONS of performance improvements and Opera actually got significantly worse at memory consumption.

At the end of the day, Aurora (with several addons) is usually below or around 300MB with my normal daily use, whereas Opera Next can easily go beyond 1GB of virtual memory.

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