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Opera is Reborn

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Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by bigbugbag »

Kholo wrote: 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…

There was a time when Opera was not a google chrome skin and offered indexed full page search of local cache of visited page. This was incredibly useful and practical. It also had the option to save the whole web page in a single file.

Sadly this kind of feature disappeared when opera moved to a quarterly profit based strategy.

The kind of feature you want is achievable today but requires a set of tools beyond a web browser and some human work. It's also a bit tedious to maintain up to date.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by H4CK3RM4N »

Falkon1313 wrote: post #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. See…

At this point your browser is your OS(with Blink as the kernel, Chrome(ium) as the init/package manager and Opera as the DE), so something like this does makes sense. I just wish that web developers would realise how terrible of an idea this trend is.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by gagabity »

pawadu wrote: post #18
gagabity wrote: 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…

How would this even work? The app cannot listen to system events. (I also think what you said is against Google ToS)

From what I understand once an app is removed Android fires a ACTION_PACKAGE_REMOVED intent which can be picked up by other Apps.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by H4CK3RM4N »

nonsince wrote: post #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 opport…

Safari has their pinned tab which makes it easily accessible, if not always open.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by jug »

analogmemory wrote: post #47

If I ignore your weird racist overtones. Why would you trust Google/Apple/Firefox more?

Did China's Great Internet Firewall and eager to control how their population access the web somehow pass you?

I am not racist, I am not placing this blame on a Chinese person's race, persona, or anything. This isn't about the governed Chinese people in the first place.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by H4CK3RM4N »

analogmemory wrote: post #47

If I ignore your weird racist overtones. Why would you trust Google/Apple/Firefox more?

1) Google

I don't trust them.

2) Apple

Previous stands on privacy/security, knowledge of where they make actually make money and widely spread shareholder base/publicly identifiable managers.

3) Firefox(Moz://a)

It's a bit for profit and everything of theirs is open source, and therefore auditable.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by H4CK3RM4N »

nomercy400 wrote: post #60
FridgeSeal wrote: post #32

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...

That's why I don't use Chrome.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by bigbugbag »

jug wrote: post #40

I don't dare to use this since Opera got bought by that Chinese consortium of companies I'm not accustomed with. Not sure if I'm overly cautious? I'm thinking of especially Opera Link (which had a recent security breach to boot!). Wouldn't that leave out my passwords to China? And I do want to use some sort of syncing, I'd go crazy without anything there or some iffy third party addon. It's not even just about a trus…

Is this limited to Opera and China ?

This kind of reasoning also applies to facebook, any alphabet or google product/service, apple, uber, airbnb, and pretty much any company/service that's based in the US where the patriot act pretty much makes all these companies open bar for the US government.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by ryu2k2 »

Falkon1313 wrote: post #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. See…

>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?

I highly doubt third parties have access to the messenger tab.

It's a neat addition that works well for people who browse in one fullscreenized window.

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