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You may be right. Like I said, it has been a while since I last used Opera (several years) and then there were many instances where I had to switch to other bro

You may be right. Like I said, it has been a while since I last used Opera (several years) and then there were many instances where I had to switch to other browsers to be able to proceed. Most annoyingly, my online banking would work in Firefox (and I'm sure in IE), but not in Opera. These things made it very annoying for daily use. Maybe it is not fair to blame Opera for quirks and deviations from standards any more than others. The difference is that Opera has such a small market share that developers don't account for Opera's quirks as much as they do for IE, Firefox and Webkit.

eperoumal 15y ago
I have used Opera a few times, and at the time I was using it, there was no support for SOCKS proxies (something standard in other competitors, always cool to set up a poor's man VPN over SSH). By then, it was important for me to have this in my browser, so I dropped Opera and chose Chrome instead. Nevertheless, I checked the last version and it seems like they implemented SOCKS. Great news, but for now I'll stick to Chrome... BTW, is there any killer feature in Opera ?
- pornel 15y ago
  Opera's killer features get copied sooner or later (sessions, DOM cache, speed dial, undo close tab, etc.) And what is a killer depends what you care about… • It's very good if you prefer using keyboard navigation (spatial navigation is a killer not copied anywhere yet) • Mouse Gestures are still best implemented in Opera IMHO, although Apple's trackpad gestures make that less of a killer feature these days. • (Fast)Forward button finds and "clicks" on links with labels like "Next page" which makes paged navigation easy. • Opera handles lots of tabs in a session very well. I often leave tabs open instead of bookmarking pages :) • The built-in mail client is a killer for me – has "GMail-like" filters (predating GMail), very good threading, 1-key shortcuts and differentiates between "seen" and "read".

eperoumal 15y ago

I have used Opera a few times, and at the time I was using it, there was no support for SOCKS proxies (something standard in other competitors, always cool to set up a poor's man VPN over SSH). By then, it was important for me to have this in my browser, so I dropped Opera and chose Chrome instead. Nevertheless, I checked the last version and it seems like they implemented SOCKS. Great news, but for now I'll stick to Chrome... BTW, is there any killer feature in Opera ?

pornel 15y ago
Opera's killer features get copied sooner or later (sessions, DOM cache, speed dial, undo close tab, etc.) And what is a killer depends what you care about… • It's very good if you prefer using keyboard navigation (spatial navigation is a killer not copied anywhere yet) • Mouse Gestures are still best implemented in Opera IMHO, although Apple's trackpad gestures make that less of a killer feature these days. • (Fast)Forward button finds and "clicks" on links with labels like "Next page" which makes paged navigation easy. • Opera handles lots of tabs in a session very well. I often leave tabs open instead of bookmarking pages :) • The built-in mail client is a killer for me – has "GMail-like" filters (predating GMail), very good threading, 1-key shortcuts and differentiates between "seen" and "read".