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I used Opera, when it still was paid-for software, because it was light and fast. I left Opera when they started including everything but the kitchen sink (Mail
by danieldk 15y ago
I used Opera, when it still was paid-for software, because it was light and fast. I left Opera when they started including everything but the kitchen sink (Mail client, etc.) in the browser.
I never quite understood why they did not release the applications separately. They probably wanted to compete with the Mozilla suite.
- snes 15y agoAt the time when such mattered to the single core sub ghz cpu. The binary for Opera was still smaller then Firefox's. And if you didn't enable the mail client, it wasn't enabled. What is bloat, is having an entire browser in an emailclient to render HTML messages, like Mozilla did.
- pornel 15y agoPaid-for version had mail client too. v6 even had ICQ client. Since then Opera has been hiding these features, but they're not separating them, as they have no noticeable impact and the codebase as a whole is still smaller than less featured competitors'.