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For all you alternative browser users out there, Opera has just released version 10.63. The press release says it is faster, safer, more secure and easier to use. Grab it if you want it, try it if you haven’t.

Opera has reached an even higher performance score with security and stability updates. For more information, see the changelogs. New in last, major version (Opera 10.60). Our further-optimized JavaScript engine is over 50% faster than in Opera 10.50. Search suggestions for selected providers help you find results more easily. Enhanced support for advanced web standards such as HTML5 and WebM video is now included. Opera can prompt you to share your location, making geolocation-supporting websites more useful.
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I use Opera, and you should stop thread shitting on Opera. If you think its lame give up your browsers tabs, your speed dial, your bookmark syncing, your mouse gestures, your mdi interface, and thousands upon thousands of other INNOVATIVE and important features they developed that everyone else ripped off.

The importance of an innovation or idea have NOTHING to do with how many ignorant people fail to realize its potential.

Look at Tesla, Henry Ford, etc....
 
Honest question:

How does opera stay in buisness. I mean, how do they pay their developers?

I use it on laptop. Not so bad.
 
Damos said:
Honest question:

How does opera stay in buisness. I mean, how do they pay their developers?

I use it on laptop. Not so bad.
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VC funding? don't forget that Opera mobile/mini is hands down the best mobile browser.
 
Damos said:
Honest question:

How does opera stay in buisness. I mean, how do they pay their developers?

I use it on laptop. Not so bad.
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The same way Mozilla gets most of it's money. The search engine companies pay them to put their engines in the search box, and for each search made with it.
 
#4 reporting in. To date it is still the only browser I can use to hit the virtual slums of the internet and come away unscathed, compared to IE and Firefox. (Though I haven't tried Chrome nor do I intend to)

Plus when I close the browser, I can come back to ALL my previous tabs being open!

Firefox for me literally starts up, then out of nowhere, when I try to go to somewhere on the internet, it just sits for literally about 20 minutes thinking about it. This is when I click a link, manually enter an address, or use a bookmark. And this happens, at random.

IE - My main complaint is that it seems like having a little kid - I can't take this browser anywhere without it picking up something it shouldn't, and then Avira prompts me to take action when it finds something not seconds later after loading a page. So now I don't bother with IE except for paying bills and checking my hotmail.
 
Just gave it a whirl, no out of box touch nor Windows 7 Superbar support. Guess I'll try again at 10.7.
 
I was a hardcore firefox user until Opera became a free browser and tried it out, I haven't looked back since. I just love how I can log in on any computer and have my bookmarks already setup.
 
Opera user here.

++opera_user_count

For those wondering about Opera's financial report, see http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2010/09/01/q2-2010

Estimated 120,000,000+ users with half of that on desktop.

They make deals with ask, google, bing and other companies. They make partnership deals with all types of device companies all the time. See http://www.opera.com/press/releases/ for example.

Opera also recently bought fastmail.fm and they have already upgraded a lot of their hardware. They even moved the devs to Norway. All the fixes they made for their IMAP implementation are donated back to the open source cyrus mail project.

Opera's doing all kinds of crazy shit and they have the $$ to do it.

The $$ they spend on my.opera.com has got to be crazy. Such an awesome community. 5.6 Million+ users on the site.

See http://www.opera.com/company/investors/stock/ for stock stuff.

Also see their mobile usage report: http://www.opera.com/smw/2010/08/
 
i use it my self on my HTC HD (windows phone) and HTC desire (makes 2g connections like it was 3g[nearly any way]), and Hardocp forums is the Only site that it's an bit buggy on when trying post comments (the page keeps forcing an reload when i un-select the box i am typing in now, cant edit posts as well), this issue is only for mobile browser not the full 10.63 as that works fine, H do have H mobile view bit that would work on an 6200 nokia browser looks odd and hard to read on an HTC desire or any Full web based mobile browser phone like opera or Googles own browser

and my main pc you try and have 50-70 tabs open on firefox or Chrome (1 process per tab)
firefox seems to get unstable around the 10-20tab state (lots of ram and some times CPU) and its persistent tab support sucks as an popup box can wipe all the tabs out with no recovery (the recovery tab support is all its good for when firefox crash and burns as it restore all the tabs and windows you had open)
Chrome i guess its Pure ram use for the most part and disk hammer mode when you have lots of tabs open when you re open chrome and it restores the tabs each one is an disk request so it can hammer the disk an little, but the persistent stuff works mostly well and its recovery works well on crash as it tends to crash only the one tab or even on full system crash it restores the tabs

Opera from 10.xx up mostly i have yet had an crash that was the fault of an website or Browser bug (had fail OC that trashed my persistent tab file so resulting in no tabs on start up but i save the tab state every month or so), only thing opera is missing is an task manager like Chrome so you know What site is using the ram up in opera (norm flash thought) but thats between 400mb-1gb of ram used but i do have a lot of tabs open and opera is fully responsive and i do not close opera down unless i reboot the system normally so its open for long times, also security as Opera does not support UAC level up so its always running in user mode (as long as you have not turned UAC off) less targeted then IE, firefox and Chrome, you have to download and run the exe to run an virus

i find it rare that sites do not work, most do not like opera as it does not have adblock or noscript, never needed them my self apart form blocking inteli text ads domains my self, as that's the only thing that makes opera stutter when i load pages (mite not do it now as it was 10.20 i applied the blocks, 10.50 has faster java in it) guess it has something to do with scanning the page so it can modify text for links

i used opera from around version 6-7 i think
 
Traded on a foreign, no name exchange on a non "financial" norm currency (makes reading income statements confusing, as I don't know what the conversions are). Vague, non standard financial reports with no mention of debt holdings, and I don't buy for a second they don't have debt holdings. I also don't buy this "estimated" 120M users, either.

As an investor, I wouldn't touch them.

As a person who has been working on the internet since the early 90's, and having many friends/family that do the same, and knowing ZERO people who have used Opera and stayed with it (myself being one that's tried it a few times, and went back to FF/IE/Chrome), this is just a company and a browser that I have zero interest in.

I agree with the above poster that Opera continues to have 5 users. :)

Shadow2531 said:
Opera user here.

++opera_user_count

For those wondering about Opera's financial report, see http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2010/09/01/q2-2010

Estimated 120,000,000+ users with half of that on desktop.

They make deals with ask, google, bing and other companies. They make partnership deals with all types of device companies all the time. See http://www.opera.com/press/releases/ for example.

Opera also recently bought fastmail.fm and they have already upgraded a lot of their hardware. They even moved the devs to Norway. All the fixes they made for their IMAP implementation are donated back to the open source cyrus mail project.

Opera's doing all kinds of crazy shit and they have the $$ to do it.

The $$ they spend on my.opera.com has got to be crazy. Such an awesome community. 5.6 Million+ users on the site.

See http://www.opera.com/company/investors/stock/ for stock stuff.

Also see their mobile usage report: http://www.opera.com/smw/2010/08/
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I'll have to download this update when I get home.

I also don't get the hate. This is where all the nice features of the modern web browser came from. The way I look at it, I get Firefox's/IE/Chrome/Etc's new features a year early. I don't know why so many people choose to wait for it to be copied before they use it.
 
Opera user #9 reporting. Used Opera for roughly what, 4-5 years? Maybe more? Back when you had to pay to use it or use it with ads. :p Simply the only browser I can stand, Firefox is too sluggish, IE is IE, Chrome is ok but lacks the features I use in Opera. Opera haters are simply people who haven't used it, or used it with the mindset to hate it because they love FF/Chrome too much.
 
CHAoS_NiNJA said:
Opera user #9 reporting. Used Opera for roughly what, 4-5 years? Maybe more? Back when you had to pay to use it or use it with ads. :p Simply the only browser I can stand, Firefox is too sluggish, IE is IE, Chrome is ok but lacks the features I use in Opera. Opera haters are simply people who haven't used it, or used it with the mindset to hate it because they love FF/Chrome too much.
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Yea, that must be it. Since you use it, it's the best in the world, and anyone that doesn't agree with you has the wrong mindset or is stupid.

Opera users are LOL.

Like it? Use it. Leave the rest of us alone. You bring the haters out of us...we really don't care about Opera, and if it disappeared tomorrow we wouldn't notice. But every patch or "feature" Opera claims is the greatest thing evarrrr, we have to hear about how much better it is. So we try it. And we don't see it. And on and on we go. :p

Opera sucks.
 
hPOD said:
Yea, that must be it. Since you use it, it's the best in the world, and anyone that doesn't agree with you has the wrong mindset or is stupid.

Opera users are LOL.

Like it? Use it. Leave the rest of us alone. You bring the haters out of us...we really don't care about Opera, and if it disappeared tomorrow we wouldn't notice. But every patch or "feature" Opera claims is the greatest thing evarrrr, we have to hear about how much better it is. So we try it. And we don't see it. And on and on we go. :p

Opera sucks.
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Your Fanboyism is so cute.
 
hPOD said:
Yea, that must be it. Since you use it, it's the best in the world, and anyone that doesn't agree with you has the wrong mindset or is stupid.
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It is not our fault that you have problems with it :) .

Opera is by far the best browser on the market. smaller and optimized code base no resource hog.

Works flawless on Linux :)
 
hPOD said:
Which shows that you don't know what a fanboi even is.

The opera users are the fanbois here, in case you weren't aware.
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You think you're not a fanboy? Then why didn't you have a rational debate about the strengths and weakness of Opera? You didn't, instead had an amazingly strong argument that "opera sucks". And... yeah that was about your entire argument. "I didn't like it, it sucked".
 
Opera needs to stick to Mobile where they are dominant...leave the desktops to the big boys

Funny...someone says Opera sux then an Opera fanboi says firefox, google, etc. sux and your just a firefox fanboi...pot kettle black anyone?

And the dude that loves Opera and thinks it's the best yet refuses to try Chrome.....wtf? biased much?
 
Opera rocks, good solid feature rich browser

Tried Chrome and Firefox (Good Browsers) also been playing around with IE9 Beta (Also a good Browser) however when alls said and done I always go back to Opera.

Long live freedom of choice
 
Some sites do not play well with opera (which I've used since paying for it on win98 back when it was not free). Last year (iirc) I found out how to have a "user mode -- author mode" button toggle on the toolbar which shows page magnification (right now it says 160 percent). So if I browse to newegg (used to work fine) I'd switch from
author mode (default) to user mode. (Opera 10.00.20090830, freebsd) ... (I also have an instance of 10.60 installed which behaves more firefox-like, page-scrolling wise. I do not believe that upgrade fixed the css/frames/or whatever issue with a minorty of the sites. )
.....
Cannot ever imagine it not being my browser of choice. (Secondly use seamonkey, sometimes firefox, daily "links -g" weekly "w3m", daily "lynx", chrome is installed
and tested, which btw just today appeared in the ports tree
(/usr/ports/www/chrome ) (www is where the makefiles for installable browsers
reside).
...
I could write a lot more but do not even have time to post this today actually.
...
 
to all the opera boo hoo hoos out there, PLS DONT USE OPERA.

PLS?

I dont want hackers cracking up my "alternative" browser, thank you very much.
 
+1 to all of you!
Opera is my #1 by far. FF isnt even installed on my computer.
Mouse gestures are the greatest thing ever.Makes for hours of surfing much quicker, efficient and comfortable. I wish the Windows UI could do it. That would be heaven...
Of course having the best graphical engine and speed helps too.
 
Some of the blatant, non-justified hate for Opera in this thread is really stupid. None of them have ever actually given the strength and weaknesses of Opera, and have either said that 5 people use it, or it outright sucks.

GG FF/Chrome fanboys.

Anyway, I'm an Opera user myself. I've used FF in the past, tried Opera once, but at that point (I think it was around 9?) some pages would totally freeze up on me and take forever to load so I went back to FF. I've tried Chrome, but it just didn't "feel" right to me, so went back to FF before trying out Opera 10. Finally decided on sticking with 10 as I no longer have any problems using the browser and I can have a million tabs open without the browser crashing and burning. :)
 
Shadow2531 said:
Opera 11 will have extensions:
http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2010/10/14/opera-11-will-have-extensions

Opera Mobile for Android with hardware acceleration:
http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2010/10/14/opera-mobile-for-android-coming-soon
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Nice. Opera's had a usermode plugin model for a while but never had the marketshare to do much with it. If this will make porting extensions easier I'm all for it. The lack of a DOM based adblocker is my biggest annoyance with O. My only concern is that if this takes as long to from alpha to release as their last major revision I'll still be grumbling about the lack in 2012.
 
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