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Opera is Reborn

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Re: Opera is Reborn

#51
Opera used to be amazing, a few years ago it had a built in RSS, mail and IRC client, then even later (and right before the acquisition) they were still ahead with their UX by having a "Read Later" section to the browser and allowing you to easily customise and make folders in your "first page".

Now its just a mess and Vivaldi is not much better.

Re: Opera is Reborn

#52
post #27

we bring you Opera Reborn, the first browser to allow messengers to reside within your browser, without the need to install any extensions or apps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockmelt

Vivaldi is doing that out of the box. Just drag and drop messenger.com on to left app bar, then right click and select Show desktop version. Voila!

Re: Opera is Reborn

#53
post #14

Hey opera folks who might be reading this - work on simplifying offline access to web content. I want to be able to maintain ~100 GB of offline data store, full text searchable. Wikipedia, stackexchange\stackoverflow, khan academy, zealdocs and whole bunch of other sources of useful browser renderable web content provide dumps of their data. And then they end up having to build spl apps and extensions and other garba…

Whilst I don't know many people who would be in your situation I do think that an offline, indexed data store could be very useful. Bookmarks even to this day are dreadfully implemented on all of the major browsers.

Bookmarks are obsolete and badly implemented for decades now.

Bookmarks are subject to link rot, having more than a hundred of them is a timesink nightmare to manage, bookmarks are useless when you are offline,... the list goes on and on and I have yet to see any browser even try to do something to address these.

Re: Opera is Reborn

#55
>desktops and laptops, while theoretically more powerful multitasking tools, have been left behind

>Browsing and chatting simultaneously is cumbersome and inefficient now, as you need to switch between tabs when responding to a message

Or, since we all have widescreen monitors (and often multiple monitors) you could just have your messengers in a window next to the browser instead of a sidebar within the browser. Seems like a solution looking for a problem. What good is allowing messengers to reside within your browser other than that it lets the people who are tracking your browsing habits simultaneously spy on your messages?

Re: Opera is Reborn

#57
post #6

This reminds me of an interesting thing that happened when I uninstalled Opera VPN on my Android. After uninstalling it automatically opened up a browser to one of those "Tell us why you uninstalled" pages that you normally see on the desktop, this shouldn't be possible on Android. I think they are doing this by having Opera Browser watch for uninstallation of Opera VPN and possibly vice-versa and when one detects th…

Um, before going down the conspiracy theory road, maybe do a simple google search? This is literally the top result for "android app on uninstall": http://stackoverflow.com/a/18816716/4944625

I think what they are describing there runs before the uninstall does it not? Pretty sure mine was after the uninstall completed, which is not possible since the app is already gone by that point.

Re: Opera is Reborn

#58
post #6

This reminds me of an interesting thing that happened when I uninstalled Opera VPN on my Android. After uninstalling it automatically opened up a browser to one of those "Tell us why you uninstalled" pages that you normally see on the desktop, this shouldn't be possible on Android. I think they are doing this by having Opera Browser watch for uninstallation of Opera VPN and possibly vice-versa and when one detects th…

I'm not an expert in google's android but could it be that the uninstall process ends by firing up a web page ?

No there it doesn't, on Android you cant do anything after the actual uninstall as far as I am aware.

Re: Opera is Reborn

#59
I really like the concept of bringing i3-style tiling management to the browser space, but why is it specific to messengers? Since most well-designed websites work at any size, couldn't you just have a permanent tab at the side of the screen of, say, twitter, or some browser-based IRC client? Admittedly, I'd probably use facebook messenger as this tab anyway, so my needs are covered, but it seems like a missed opportunity. Obviously more technically-inclined individuals on more technically-inclined OS's have this already with proper tiling window managers but Windows and MacOS users probably don't want that system-wide and the browser would be the perfect place to introduce it.

Re: Opera is Reborn

#60

Pretty sure Opera is part owned by a Chinese consortium now, and to my knowledge their revenue comes from ads and adtech. So not super certain how private it is likely to be...

FTFY: Pretty sure Chrome is part owned by an American consortium now, and to my knowledge their revenue comes from ads and adtech. So not super certain how private it is likely to be...
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