Hello Opera 12
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Hello Opera 12
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Re: Hello Opera 12
#2They really improved the responsiveness, it feels as responsive as Chrome now.
Here's more if you are interested: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/06/14/twelve-under...
Re: Hello Opera 12
#3I don't know why I would ever switch from Chrome or Safari to Opera. On a Mac, Opera still has text rendering issues (http://imgur.com/a/9bK1j), scrolling stutters, and there's a noticeable difference in page load speed (Opera is much slower than Chrome, at least on my computer).
Re: Hello Opera 12
#4I don't know why I would ever switch from Chrome or Safari to Opera. On a Mac, Opera still has text rendering issues ( http://imgur.com/a/9bK1j ), scrolling stutters, and there's a noticeable difference in page load speed (Opera is much slower than Chrome, at least on my computer).
Features.
Re: Hello Opera 12
#5I don't know why I would ever switch from Chrome or Safari to Opera. On a Mac, Opera still has text rendering issues ( http://imgur.com/a/9bK1j ), scrolling stutters, and there's a noticeable difference in page load speed (Opera is much slower than Chrome, at least on my computer).
Features.
Care to expand this? A quick look at the linked page shows a bunch of under the hood improvements that will appeal to web developers, but as a user I remain ignorant of why people use Opera.
To be clear I used to use Opera back when they where the only browser with tabs, but that was close to a decade ago.
Re: Hello Opera 12
#6So now Opera also features extensions ?
Re: Hello Opera 12
#7I don't know why I would ever switch from Chrome or Safari to Opera. On a Mac, Opera still has text rendering issues ( http://imgur.com/a/9bK1j ), scrolling stutters, and there's a noticeable difference in page load speed (Opera is much slower than Chrome, at least on my computer).
For me, it is because it simply works straight out of the box, with all the features I use all the time.
For me, it is several of the following reasons:
* mouse gestures.
* the speed dial.
* the ease to create custom url-bar searches.
* thumbnail images of tabs (to check a potentially nsfw link at work).
* in page link or text search using ',' or '.'
* the ability to search for links in the sidebar, and select all of them (e.g. to copy to a wget script, etc.)
* the ease to customize the content block.
... and probably other stuff, which doesn't come to mind.
Also, and this is important: I'm not trying to convince you here. Just pointing out that some will say the exact thing on the switch from Opera to Chrome, Firefox or Safari, with good reasons of their own. Whatever floats your boat.
Also, mind you, I have firefox and chrome installed. Firefox I almost never use, and chrome is useful to see shiny WebGL stuff, which has a lot more support. Sometimes also to see new CSS-demos that are broken in Opera (mostly because of lazy developers who don't include the -o- extensions).
Re: Hello Opera 12
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Features.
Care to expand this? A quick look at the linked page shows a bunch of under the hood improvements that will appeal to web developers, but as a user I remain ignorant of why people use Opera. To be clear I used to use Opera back when they where the only browser with tabs, but that was close to a decade ago.
Download manager, BitTorrent support, very good email application included, feed reader, Opera Turbo speeds up browsing if you are on a slow connection by compressing everything on Opera's servers (optional), integrated IRC client.
Opera really is a web suite, not just a browser.
Re: Hello Opera 12
#9So now Opera also features extensions ?
Extensions were introduced in 11 version almost two years ago.
Now Opera is ditching widgets and unite to focus on extenions.
Re: Hello Opera 12
#10Anybody home?