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Would be sad if it goes through. I recently found my receipt for an Opera licence (which I must have bought some time in the 90s). It was amazing back then just
by f_allwein 11y ago
Would be sad if it goes through. I recently found my receipt for an Opera licence (which I must have bought some time in the 90s). It was amazing back then just to have an alternative to IE. All today's browsers are indebted to Opera. E.g., they were the first to use tabbed browsing.
- jkot 11y agoit was also first to support gestures, tab recovery after crash, decent speed... For couple of years (before Mozilla become usable) it was the ONLY alternative to IE.
- mioelnir 11y agoI think I switched to opera somewhere around the end of Opera3, before the advertising window, then 5.12 being a version number that I seem to remember vividly. Even bought a few Opera7/FreeBSD keys back then for all my boxes (even the headless ones) to show support. The initial Chrome-based Opera was a culture shock after the 12.x series. But, the more recent releases are actually quite usable I found and Opera is once again my main choice on Windows. I would be honestly sad to see it go.
- vidarh 11y ago> E.g., they were the first to use tabbed browsing. That's open for discussion They had MDI at first, not proper tabs. Other early browsers with tabs include NetCaptor (1997?), and iBrowse2 (Amiga; 1999). Phoenix (what became Firefox) also had what we'd consider tabs today in September 2002, while Opera first got that in November 2002. So it boils down to whether or not you consider an MDI based interface equivalent to tabs. Personally, I don't - MDI was one of the things that kept me away from Opera back then..