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You are correct - Opera had tabs way before Firefox, and Opera had a full mail client as well without feeling bloated or slow.
by sangnoir 6y ago
You are correct - Opera had tabs way before Firefox, and Opera had a full mail client as well without feeling bloated or slow.
- core-questions 6y agoI strongly believe that if Opera had had a cool name, it would have been a real contender. People don't like operas, they're boring and stodgy.
- tinus_hn 6y agoOpera was a paid option. It was doomed from the start.
- cpach 6y agoIIRC the rendering engine wasn’t that great either at that time.
- rasz 6y agoOpera Presto was the fastest browser (and js engine) in the world at its prime.
- NetOpWibby 6y agoOpera was the best
- danielscrubs 6y agoStill remember the mouse gestures to zip around the pages. What a fun time.
- bmn__ 6y agoYou don't need to feel deprived. https://github.com/marklieberman/foxygestures https://github.com/marklieberman/foxygestures https://otter-browser.org/ https://otter-browser.org/ (Tools → Preferences… → Advanced → Mouse → [X] Enable mouse gestures)
- cpach 6y agoI was thinking more what the result looked like.
- rasz 6y agoWebsite often broke in Opera due to being written for "IE" standard.
- Wildgoose 6y agoI paid for Opera (twice) because it was clearly the superior product. People spend money on a better machine, so why not on a clearly better browser? (At that time). And although browsers are no longer distinctly better than each other, I still donate to Mozilla.
- tinus_hn 6y agoBecause you can’t buy a free machine. But you can download a free browser.
- utucuro 6y agoNot really, I was an Opera user when Firefox 0.8 came out... Switched pretty much permanently, Opera also had mouse gestures which I was actively using and still use with a Firefox extension...
- hadrien01 6y agoThe free version of Opera also had ads at the time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c6/Opera_6.0.png/220px-Opera_6.0.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c6/Opera_6...