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As an Opear user, I'm curious - why? It's performant (well, maybe not on memory usage, but I have plenty of memory), highly configurable, has a lot of features

• pradocchia 16y ago
  > It's performant (well, maybe not on memory usage, but I have plenty of memory) I was a die-hard Opera user for years, back when it had the smallest memory footprint and the smallest download size--less than 2MB at one time. Opera made fast, multi-tab browsing possible on older machines. I guess they have gotten away from that in recent years!
• grandalf 16y ago
  I think for me it was that when I first tried it it was adware and didn't support javascript. Also, the linux version I tried hadn't received much UI polish.
  • endtime 16y ago
    I can't speak for the Linux version, but the rest of what you're saying is a bit like not wanting to use Windows 7 because you didn't like Windows 98. Opera has come a long way...
    • grandalf 16y ago
      That is true. I downloaded it the other day but in my 30 seconds of usage didn't see any reason to switch to it from Chrome. Do you have any thoughts on reasons to switch?
      • endtime 16y ago
        I like that I can completely rebuild the UI however I want. I also find tab thumbnails to be a nice productivity boost, totally worth the vertical space they take up (to enable them, just drag the bottom of the tab bar down). The native mouse gesture implementation seems snappier than the Firefox plugin I tried (haven't tried in Chrome). tl;dr: Features and configurability. That said, Chrome has its own strengths; it's a good browser, and it's the one I use on the rare occasion that something doesn't play nice with Opera.