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I would argue that in 2005 the best browser was Opera. A lot of things we now take for granted in browsers were pioneered by them. I was sad they cancelled deve
by Andrew_nenakhov 7y ago
I would argue that in 2005 the best browser was Opera. A lot of things we now take for granted in browsers were pioneered by them. I was sad they cancelled development of their engine instead of open-sourcing it.
- SkyMarshal 7y agoOpera was amazing back then. Ran rings around IE in features and was super fast. It’s definitely too bad they didn’t open source it and build a large community around it.
- nradov 7y agoOpera was probably using licensed third-party code internally which they couldn't legally release as open source.
- bdcravens 7y agoI believe this comment is talking about a time prior to that, closer to 2000.
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y agoI was using Opera as my chief browser in 2002..2010 period, so 2005 was Opera's peak, around versions 8-9 and a race to pass ACID2 test. I finally switched away to chrome because Opera became unbearable on Ubuntu, it slowed down and a lot of graphics issues appeared.
- FreakyT 7y agoYup, you're correct -- by the time 2005 had rolled around the Netscape-successors had finally produced a good product, Firebird/Firefox! It felt leagues beyond IE6, which came out near 2000 and was basically untouched for 5 years at that point.
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y agoWell, Firefox passed the ACID2 test almost 2 years later than Opera (only in 2008), and was rather slow at the time.