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I like the "speed dial" feature of mobile opera. I can't find a comparable function for mobile FF or Chrome. How do you guys switch between your list visited 10ish site on those browsers?
Bookmarks?
I like the "speed dial" feature of mobile opera. I can't find a comparable function for mobile FF or Chrome. How do you guys switch between your list visited 10ish site on those browsers?
Tabs.
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It was dead to me the moment they switched to chromium
I still think that was a necessary decision. Jon Von Tetzchner (one of the two Opera founders, and a previous long time CEO) strongly disagreed, then from the outside, but later did the exact same thing with Vivaldi. (Jon is a fantastic mensch , btw. One of the best CEOs I've ever had.) Google had very purposely raised the bar by putting like 5x-8x more competent engineers than the Opera core (non-platform/UI-specifi…
I really liked old Opera and even Edge for their engines that made the web pages feel snappy and somewhat different than the WebKit monoculture.
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Surely IE6 already had a "reasonable subset" and devs hated it for holding back progress...
The main reason I disliked it was it wasn't standards compliant for the parts it did implement: you couldn't write code to-spec and expect it to work on both IE6 and Firefox, without testing each browser separately.
At that time they had ads inside of the UI of the browser so I had to make a firewall rule to block those, but other than that it was a great browser in the pre-noscript days.
But I've also heard some insider info from a Norwegian pal and apparently it's a disaster in that company. Only reason they're still alive today is all the embedded work.
Opera is beyond rescue. As someone who spent a decade working there it saddens me to say so, but please don't use it. Actual, executive day-to-day control over the browser tech has progressed sort of like this: 1995: Oslo, Norway 2008: Linköping, Sweden 2014: Wrocław, Poland 2020: Beijing, PRC (the sale happened in 2016, but they were hands-off for quite some time; I think they were being busy with shady fintech stuf…
I don't quite understand your point. You are basically implying that opera is beyond rescue because the governance moved from a country you value to countries you value less?
Opera is beyond rescue. As someone who spent a decade working there it saddens me to say so, but please don't use it. Actual, executive day-to-day control over the browser tech has progressed sort of like this: 1995: Oslo, Norway 2008: Linköping, Sweden 2014: Wrocław, Poland 2020: Beijing, PRC (the sale happened in 2016, but they were hands-off for quite some time; I think they were being busy with shady fintech stuf…
Any specific reasons to not use Opera? I actually just switched this week, being fed up with Firefox. So far so good. I very much like the UI/UX. I hope this isn't just another case of "China bad". Edit: Ah, I see the link you added. So the new owners seem shady.
[1] https://forums.opera.com/topic/38628/why-is-there-a-white-st...
So we need blockchain because google controls the emails of his kids that he has set up. What? If you want you data to be safe, then host your data yourself and make backups. Yet another "we had a blockchain and did not know what to do with it" solution that nobody needs. I think I lost IQ points reading this nonsense.
Yeah I'm kinda confused as to why he went through all the effort of setting up email addresses rather than throwing them in a folder and backing it up to as many off-site storage providers as needed to make him comfortable. I get that sending an email might be easy but so is uploading to Dropbox or Nextcloud if it must be self-hosted. And you don't have any storage limits. Plus having blockchain domain names does not…
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Any specific reasons to not use Opera? I actually just switched this week, being fed up with Firefox. So far so good. I very much like the UI/UX. I hope this isn't just another case of "China bad". Edit: Ah, I see the link you added. So the new owners seem shady.
I dunno, if Google was sold to a Chinese company (so, essentially controlled by the CCP), would that in your mind be grounds to avoid using their services, or just another case of "China bad"? I'm guessing you're perhaps conflating criticism of China/CCP with recent idiotic attacks on random asian people in the US?
When expectations are adjusted, country names doesn't make any difference. I don't trust any system I didn't install beyond a certain point.