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The Opera 12 browser, for umpteen reasons: - UX-wise, it solved many issues browsers today are still struggling with. Vivaldi is working in a similar direction
by lucideer 8y ago
The Opera 12 browser, for umpteen reasons:
- UX-wise, it solved many issues browsers today are still struggling with. Vivaldi is working in a similar direction, but they've basically started from scratch again so aren't close to the point of development Opera had achieved by version 12.
- These HN posts from today's frontpage [0] [1] give some idea of why we really need Presto today. Not only would it just be good to have more competitors in the space, but also, for most of its existence Presto was ahead of its competitors in every detail (except for the one important, and very political, issue of "site compatibility", a.k.a. making badly written websites work). It also, similarly, got many UX points working at an engine level that modern browsers still get wrong, like text selection of html content and link text, responsiveness of scroll and of page links during navigation, etc.
- M2 will never be surpassed by Thunderbird, and quite possibly will never be surpassed full stop (though I really hope I'm wrong about that).
... so many other things
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18626316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18626316
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18622516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18622516
- userbinator 8y agoThe Presto source code was leaked not too long ago, so legal issues notwithstanding, you might actually see this one happen. Some Russians and Chinese have already managed to build and patch it with new features.
- avar 8y agoThe commit SHA-1 at the tip of the leaked presto.git repository is 8cd9aeda16e82d5babc1070a0791f0ef2de6fad5, which helps to find it in various places.
- aasasd 8y agoJust FYI, you can select link text in Firefox and, I think, Chrome if you hold Alt. Learned that rather recently even though I'm practically living on the web.
- anotherevan 8y agoAnd if that doesn't work for you, for Firefox there's https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drag-select-link-text/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drag-select-l... which is awesome. It is one of the first add-ons I always add.
- IA21 8y agoThank you so much for this. I always have trouble selecting parts of links on reddit.
- skocznymroczny 8y agoMy favourite part of Opera was Opera Unite. People made fun of it because it was advertised as reinventing the web and stuff like that, but it was really nice. Basically what it did was providing an interface for hosting a webserver in the browser and having a central repository to install extensions for it. There were extensions with simple games, pastebin functionality, webhosting. It was very easy to setup and share stuff with your friend. Sure, you can host a webserver with nginx and install something on it, but it will take you hours or days to setup, while this was instant.