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(Unverified)Feb 11th 2010 9:40PM
• The nameless Opera browser is good. It's still nowhere as good as Firefox, which Mozilla calls the world's best browser. As they should.
• One of the best things about the Opera browser is its visual design. It really goes a good job of looking good and staying out of the way. Version 10.00 looks great, in Windows anyway, and to judge from that screenshot posted here 10.50 looks even better.
• Another good thing is their Notes feature, which lets you copy and paste useful information without having to either bookmark the page, open NotePad and drop it there, or write it down on paper. I'm surprised no other browser offers this feature of Opera's. I mean, everybody took right to tabbed browsing.
• Opera tirelessly points out how theirs is the fastest browser in the world. It may be, for all I know, but that still doesn't compensate for the browser's mechanical insistence on loading every last element of a page, including Flash videos, before allowing you to see the page at all. So attempt to visit even a simple Web site, and you will wait, and watch the progress bar, and watch it some more.
• How are the Opera people still unaware that some of the most popular Web sites either work poorly in their browser, or do not work at all? Let me think... It won't load the Street View of Google Maps; Bing Maps does not work at all (and never mind the awesome new Bing Maps in beta); Windows Live Hotmail does not render well, and its compose screen has a hard time working. These are just three off the top of my head. There are many more. I come across one more every few days.
• One of the most irritating things about the Opera browser is that it offers the user way, way, WAY too many adjustments. Here again Opera should learn from Mozilla Firefox's elegantly intuitive simplicity. No matter how much I fiddle with Opera's font (and page and content) settings, it will not render a page with the fonts I want.
• Keep up the good work, Opera. I wrote this in Firefox.
(Unverified)Feb 11th 2010 11:57PM
I don't know how valid the old argument is about webdesigners being too lazy to test their creations with something that is more web standard compliant than Firefox...
btw: street view seems to work for me at least (Opera 10.10, win32)
AntoniusFeb 12th 2010 1:04AM
I suspect you will not like hearing this. I'm using Opera 10.10, and Google maps works wonderfully. Bing maps and maps beta is flawless. Hotmail has worked fine for a long time now. If these sites still do not work for you then it is either your computer or a case of Pebkac. I'm not an Opera fanboy, I still prefer Firefox. But I do love the number of options Opera gives me and how easy it is to tweak each and every little setting without using something like About: Config.
(Unverified)Feb 12th 2010 8:00AM
King Antonius and Lebeu- I appreciate hearing about how Opera works for you, especially using the same configurations.
MxxConFeb 12th 2010 9:36AM
you are wrong that opera is waiting to download all elements before displaying the page.
Opera displays elements as they are received unless there's javascript before css, but that's the case for all browsers. you can't execute javascript unless you have all the page elements.
UngidgetFeb 12th 2010 12:14PM
"The nameless Opera browser is good. It's still nowhere as good as Firefox, which Mozilla calls the world's best browser. As they should."
What makes Firefox better?
It's bigger, slower, less secure and less functional ;)
"One of the most irritating things about the Opera browser is that it offers the user way, way, WAY too many adjustments."
Not really. It does offer a lot of adjustments, but it hides them away, so you won't deal with them unless you actually want to tweak it.