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SunnyD said:
R&D labs at Mozilla/Opensource and Google Labs. Opera in turn "borrows" said innovations.
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For that to even be remotely possible you would have to squeeze in some sort of time-traveling Delorean into the equation.

Opera was working on their internet browser before Google was a company, much less making browsers. Ditto with the Mozilla opensource use of Netscape.

I use Firefox on occasion - hell I have every browser on my computer except for Safari - and I am posting this right now using Chrome, but the objective reality is that Opera makes most of the innovations that are later picked up by Mozilla and now Chrome.
 
abaez said:
Right, because Opera wasn't the first major browser with tabs? With mouse gestures?
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AnonymouseUser said:
Opera innovations
Geek Technica
Wiki

I think the only thing Opera has "copied" from FF is automatic updates...
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Babbles said:
For that to even be remotely possible you would have to squeeze in some sort of time-traveling Delorean into the equation.

Opera was working on their internet browser before Google was a company, much less making browsers. Ditto with the Mozilla opensource use of Netscape.

I use Firefox on occasion - hell I have every browser on my computer except for Safari - and I am posting this right now using Chrome, but the objective reality is that Opera makes most of the innovations that are later picked up by Mozilla and now Chrome.
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Hahaha... I knew that would get people replying.

In all honesty, WebKit is the only "real" browser innovator now.
 
SunnyD said:
Hahaha... I knew that would get people replying.

In all honesty, WebKit is the only "real" browser innovator now.
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I suppose what gets me is that there is a significantly large amount of Firefox users who have a mistaken impression that Firefox is the only non-IE browser out there that is being innovative.

I do wish more people would use Opera not only because I think it is a superior browser, but rather I would like to see as many people out there using various browsers to make sure innovation by competition is happening.
 
SunSamurai said:
"memory Leak" look it up, fanboi.
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You mean the crap that plagued version 1.5? It's like people going iPhones drop calls like mad because there was a bug in the 2.0 OS but Apple has since fixed it, and it's more of an AT&T network sucking issue now than anything else?

But you know, once you screw up, everyone will jump on you. And use the same argument over and over again even if it's crap.

FF doesn't really memory leak. Do you hear a lot of people talking about 1.5GB memory usage on FF? It's not exactly the most efficient. Safari kills FF in Mac OSX. Chrome kills FF. However, the sheer # of addons of FF is just amazing. Yes, you may have XMarks and ADBlockPlus or whatever for Chrome now, but I use more than that. I use Check4Change, ReloadEvery, plenty of Greasemonkey scripts, FireFTP... FireFox is just a better solution for me. Loading webpages in 0.65 seconds instead of 0.72 seconds is not a killer for me.
 
abaez said:
Right, because Opera wasn't the first major browser with tabs? With mouse gestures?
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Who cares when Opera looks and feels like the AOL browser and renders many, many pages improperly.

My greatest achievement at work this year was writing the line of code that rejects all versions of Opera from my company's new multimillion dollar website.
 
Anubis said:
that is because most pages are coded for shit
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That doesn't matter in the end. If the whole thing's written dogshit wrong, people still want to see it, and they'll pick the browser that allows them to see it. Blindly following standards doesn't help anyone if the browser can't be used to view content. The smart company would have a fallback routine that allows poorly coded pages to be rendered properly ;^)
 
dwell said:
Who cares when Opera looks and feels like the AOL browser and renders many, many pages improperly.

My greatest achievement at work this year was writing the line of code that rejects all versions of Opera from my company's new multimillion dollar website.
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Please give me the link so I can show you that Opera still works. 🙂

p2daall said:
i just downloaded the beta to test out the extensions and so far its pretty good.
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Which beta?
 
I use Chrome if I just need to launch quick and check something, Firefox if I'm actually going to spend time looking around.
 
The thing with Chrome though.. is I have to switch to a different browser quite often because half of the internet doesn't work in it. Specifically many menus made using css.
 
Is the 10.5 pre-alpha build really good and stable or should a starter on the browser go for the previous finished product? I am asking because I don't know much about web browsing programs, I just want one that will be stable and respond.
 
Adrenaline said:
Is the 10.5 pre-alpha build really good and stable or should a starter on the browser go for the previous finished product? I am asking because I don't know much about web browsing programs, I just want one that will be stable and respond.
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You can do both, just install them to separate folders.
 
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