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Originally posted by: Babbles
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: Howard
Why? Because we think it's superior to anything else out there?
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No, because you won't shut up about it! Every browser thread is spammed by Operabots. Your presence in online discussions is out of proportion with your market share. Did you ever get annoyed during early election season with the influx of annoying spammy Ron Paulbots? Well Opera fans are the same. Annoying and spammy.
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It was you that really start the shit-talk in this thread about the Opera crowd. The first few instances where Opera was mentioned were benign statements along the lines of "I became an Opera convert" or when somebody noted that Opera wasn't even invluded in a browser - which is a very valid and reasonable thing to say. You escalated the situation by calling out the Opera crowd. If you don't want people to get defensive about Opera, then maybe you should not talk shit about those people.
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Meh - it appears GA wasn't getting the attention he craved as a *normal" poster, so a few months ago he decided to take on a "Troll Extraordinaire" persona. I guess he's trying to be the next Gatsby, but he lacks the dedication, intelligence, and thoroughness to even reach that goal.

Just pat his head and give him a :cookie:
 
Originally posted by: Auryg
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: ZzZGuy
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: MotF Bane
I don't see Opera included in the test. The test fails.
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Chrome overtook Opera's market share within days of launching. Opera's market share is barely above the margin for error. It's an irrelevant footnote in the browser world.
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Wouldn't that make it less of a target for hackers? Assuming it has good security to begin with.
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Sure, but it also means no one gives a shit. Opera fans are noisy but their browser is irrelevant. They're like the Ron Paul fans of the browser world.
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Show of hands which of the Opera users here went and converted to Chrome? Show of hands who didn't...
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Actually, I did. I miss my mouse gestures by I do not miss Opera not rendering pages correctly (and yes, I know they're the most standards-compliant, but the real standard that matters to web developers is if IE can display the page correctly).
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Originally posted by: vital
unfortunately security is not what makes a software popular
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Ha, most people continually argue that the two are mutually exclusive by default.

Besides, if Opera wasn't a superior browser with a large market share, why would it be the EXCLUSIVE browser for the Nintendo Wii and DS? GA just can't seem to understand what the masses already do.
 
The last time I used Chrome it seemed like 80% of the internet didn't work correctly in it... flash for instance.
 
I've played with Opera and Chrome, and I keep going back to Firefox. The previous 2 have occasional issues, but Firefox has always worked flawlessly for me.
 
Originally posted by: lxskllr
I've played with Opera and Chrome, and I keep going back to Firefox. The previous 2 have occasional issues, but Firefox has always worked flawlessly for me.
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I love FF, but on Linux, it kept slowing down and sucking up 100% CPU for seconds at a time. Granted, it may have been any one of the dozen or so addons I use, but I tried out Opera and was surprised at the speed. Of course, I miss out on a few things, like spell check (will be in v10) and email and tab addons, but the browser itself is stable, fast, and full-featured.

And the magic wand in Opera is awesome. I thought I liked the FF form fill-in, but the Wand is the bomb, yo!
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: lxskllr
I've played with Opera and Chrome, and I keep going back to Firefox. The previous 2 have occasional issues, but Firefox has always worked flawlessly for me.
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I love FF, but on Linux, it kept slowing down and sucking up 100% CPU for seconds at a time. Granted, it may have been any one of the dozen or so addons I use, but I tried out Opera and was surprised at the speed. Of course, I miss out on a few things, like spell check (will be in v10) and email and tab addons, but the browser itself is stable, fast, and full-featured.

And the magic wand in Opera is awesome. I thought I liked the FF form fill-in, but the Wand is the bomb, yo!
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Opera's good, it just doesn't "feel" right to me. It's my second favorite browser. I actively dislike Chrome. It breaks frequently, it's ugly as hell, and it's too stripped of features. I don't like clean interfaces. I want a lot of options. It doesn't have to come with them, but I want the ability to add them.
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: lxskllr
I've played with Opera and Chrome, and I keep going back to Firefox. The previous 2 have occasional issues, but Firefox has always worked flawlessly for me.
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I love FF, but on Linux, it kept slowing down and sucking up 100% CPU for seconds at a time. Granted, it may have been any one of the dozen or so addons I use, but I tried out Opera and was surprised at the speed. Of course, I miss out on a few things, like spell check (will be in v10) and email and tab addons, but the browser itself is stable, fast, and full-featured.

And the magic wand in Opera is awesome. I thought I liked the FF form fill-in, but the Wand is the bomb, yo!
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Opera has had email for as long as I have ever used it and it has had spell check well before Firefox.

Opera Spell check
 
Originally posted by: Babbles
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: lxskllr
I've played with Opera and Chrome, and I keep going back to Firefox. The previous 2 have occasional issues, but Firefox has always worked flawlessly for me.
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I love FF, but on Linux, it kept slowing down and sucking up 100% CPU for seconds at a time. Granted, it may have been any one of the dozen or so addons I use, but I tried out Opera and was surprised at the speed. Of course, I miss out on a few things, like spell check (will be in v10) and email and tab addons, but the browser itself is stable, fast, and full-featured.

And the magic wand in Opera is awesome. I thought I liked the FF form fill-in, but the Wand is the bomb, yo!
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Opera has had email for as long as I have ever used it and it has had spell check well before Firefox.

Opera Spell check
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I actually meant webmail checkers (gmail, yahoo.) With FF, I had an icon and message count on the status bar of the browser that let me know if I had mail.

I'll just wait until v10 to get the Opera built-in spell check. The v10 Alpha is pretty nice, but it's still missing Java support, so I had to go back to 9.
 
Opera forver!!!

Even though I think his a nut, I liked the Ron Paul analogy.

Anyway, I really don't get this chrome thing, my roomate always uses it, but a good percentage of the time when I try to login somewhere, the whole thing just falls apart. Once you hit submit/login you're brought to a useless white screen with about 5 words in the upper left. So much for useability. I'm pretty sure DD-WRT is one of the places where it fails.
 
Originally posted by: lxskllr

Opera's good, it just doesn't "feel" right to me. It's my second favorite browser. I actively dislike Chrome. It breaks frequently, it's ugly as hell, and it's too stripped of features. I don't like clean interfaces. I want a lot of options. It doesn't have to come with them, but I want the ability to add them.
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I read all about Chrome and was sold - until I installed it and used it. Bleh.

It's OK for a proof-of-concept, alpha release, but it is, in no way, a usable daily browser.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
Show of hands which of the Opera users here went and converted to Chrome? Show of hands who didn't...

I'm guessing Opera is still pretty relevant to Opera users. I don't think it's proactively shoved in people's faces like FF or even Chrome so it seems it's all fine whatever the Opera share may be. I certainly don't care.
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IE --> Chrome --> got pissed off at the early beta of Chrome --> found Opera and never left.
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: lxskllr

Opera's good, it just doesn't "feel" right to me. It's my second favorite browser. I actively dislike Chrome. It breaks frequently, it's ugly as hell, and it's too stripped of features. I don't like clean interfaces. I want a lot of options. It doesn't have to come with them, but I want the ability to add them.
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I read all about Chrome and was sold - until I installed it and used it. Bleh.

It's OK for a proof-of-concept, alpha release, but it is, in no way, a usable daily browser.
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i like chrome and *could* use it as a browser if i had adblock functionality and a couple other plugins from firefox.unfortunate that some ofthe job hunting sites i use dont work with it 🙁
 
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