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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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Cool. Got any examples of things Opera has borrowed from Chrome and Firefox?

Opera was among the first to do tabs, popup blocking, content filtering (ad blocking), searches from the URL field (and search field), Speed Dial/Top Sites (including sorting sites by most visited), tabs above the address bar, sessions (continue where you left off on next start), full page zoom, user JS and CSS, easily deleting private data, and all that.

Would be cool to know about something Opera borrowed for a change. Might be useful as ammo against Opera fans 😀
 
I like Opera's new Unite feature. I know its simple, but allowing me to share my own files as well as have a file inbox uploader, and media player to any PC including my own laptop when outside my own network is convenient when built into the browser. I don't think FF or Chrome have such a feature.
 
BouZouki said:
I like Opera's new Unite feature. I know its simple, but allowing me to share my own files as well as have a file inbox uploader, and media player to any PC including my own laptop when outside my own network is convenient when built into the browser. I don't think FF or Chrome have such a feature.
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Yep, Unite is great. I don't have control of the router at work and I can't open/forward ports to my PC, so I just use Opera Unite. I can download files and upload files from home with ease.
 
I like Chrome. It's minimalistic, and works perfectly on every webpage I've needed so far. FF eats memory like a biatch - and I don't need 100 add-ons just to browse the web, thanks.
 
Here's a question: Is FF on it's own that slow compared to Chrome or is it because you guys load it up with addons? I'm inclined to believe it's the addons. I'm too lazy to turn it all off but I've got like 5-6 of them going with a few greasemonkey scripts too....
 
Sorry for dragging up a 9 day old thread.

I started to use Opera a bit after it being suggested in this thread to me, and I am very pleased with it so far. It is by far superior to firefox from what I have seen. I have yet to really try chrome and IE for win 7 finally pissed me off from not responding for the 378456132745172845712854712805478 time. Oddly enough, I have not had any other web browser have that stupid not responding issue.
 
mb said:
you're so full of shit retard. You can't even stick to one argument you keep jumping around every time i prove you wrong. Diaf you ignorant troll.
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nnerrrddd rrraaagggeeeee

You also never proved me wrong, FF has a ton of memory leaks no matter how much I like it. Denying that only means you arnt part of their forums. Its well known and they are trying to reduce the rampant RAM usage that sometime occurs. The ignorant one here is you. 🙂
 
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DLeRium said:
Here's a question: Is FF on it's own that slow compared to Chrome or is it because you guys load it up with addons? I'm inclined to believe it's the addons. I'm too lazy to turn it all off but I've got like 5-6 of them going with a few greasemonkey scripts too....
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I agree with you actually. I have the portable version of FF on a thumb drive. I turn off ALL caching, don't use any addons, just completely bare-bones. And from my thumb-drive, it absolutely FLIES.
 
SunSamurai said:
nnerrrddd rrraaagggeeeee

You also never proved me wrong, FF has a ton of memory leaks no matter how much I like it. Denying that only means you arnt part of their forums. Its well known and they are trying to reduce the rampant RAM usage that sometime occurs. The ignorant one here is you. 🙂
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Wow, still crying about this? Get over it. You were wrong.
 
I just did a quick (and rudimentary) test with FF and Chrome.

Both browsers I opened up 6 tabs, identical destinations for each.

FF3.5.7 mem usage: 154,284KB
Chrome 4.0.295.dev mem usage (totaled for each instance in Task Manager): 177,428KB

I used Chrome primarily for a time, but there are still a couple sites I visit regularly that don't render properly (namely my credit union's site). I guess I just am used to FF, but I've tried switching to Chrome exclusively twice now, and I keep going back.
 
syrillus said:
I just did a quick (and rudimentary) test with FF and Chrome.

Both browsers I opened up 6 tabs, identical destinations for each.

FF3.5.7 mem usage: 154,284KB
Chrome 4.0.295.dev mem usage (totaled for each instance in Task Manager): 177,428KB

I used Chrome primarily for a time, but there are still a couple sites I visit regularly that don't render properly (namely my credit union's site). I guess I just am used to FF, but I've tried switching to Chrome exclusively twice now, and I keep going back.
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Same with me right now. but memory leaks in FF often make that much higher and I have to resort to restating the browser. Never happens to me in Chrome or Opera.
 
MrMatt said:
I agree with you actually. I have the portable version of FF on a thumb drive. I turn off ALL caching, don't use any addons, just completely bare-bones. And from my thumb-drive, it absolutely FLIES.
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Yeah I recall 3.0 flying when it first came out. Everyone on AT said "OMG it's so much faster than 2.0." Well, now with all the addons I have.. Meh.
 
Chrome 4.0 Dev is a great simple browser, but lacks some important basic settings. For example, why isn't there a way to move both roaming and local disk cache to a location of your choice???

Firefox + Addons is unbeatable.
 
Babbles said:
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.
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I know I'm ignorant, but isn't there a price tag on a fully-functioning Opera? That alone has kept me from even considering it... :\
 
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