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I've been using Opera for about 11 years now. When I started, there was nothing that was better. Even with that huge advertisement widget. It still is extremel

by balakk 15y ago

I've been using Opera for about 11 years now. When I started, there was nothing that was better. Even with that huge advertisement widget. It still is extremely competitive, if not leading in most things. For casual browsing it is unmatched. It's not about one feature; it's the completeness of the whole browser. Things that you'd expect in Firefox/Chrome in extensions are built in here. It's still as fast as Chrome to the user, never mind silly benchmarks. Give it a spin some time.

jigs_up 15y ago
I gave it shot for a while because I needed the Turbo feature. I liked using Opera, it was fast and the new chrome-like GUI is nice. However... as soon as my internet was back at full capacity I changed back to Chrome. You say you like it because of the completeness, but I found that it was missing quite a few small things which I cannot live without. Off the top off my head I can only remember two things - Tabs cannot be dragged in and out of windows Text cannot be selected and dragged into the URL bar
- andrewl-hn 15y ago
  Tabs CAN be dragged - at least on Windows and Linux - not sure about Mac. I also fell in love with tab stacking. It's just easier to group tabs into stacks in a single browser window than having separate windows. In later case I spend waaay too much time clicking wrong window.
- ks 15y ago
  > Text cannot be selected and dragged into the URL bar You can right click the text and select "Go to web address". It's quicker in my opinion.
  - jigs_up 15y ago
    but i dont want to go to a web address, i want to drag some text into the url bar and have my default engine run a query on that text
sidmitra 15y ago
I agree with balakk on all of his points, since that's when i started using Opera too, around version 2. It still is the most complete browser experience without requiring any extensions. Another thing that makes me stick to it is the integrated mail client. It's extremely minimal, out of the way if you don't need it. My browser is always open, so having a built in client, that indexes my email, and is searchable even if i'm offline is definitely awesome. I don't need to use Thunderbird, etc, since the minimal features are all i need. Give it a spin!

by balakk 15y ago

jigs_up 15y ago

I gave it shot for a while because I needed the Turbo feature. I liked using Opera, it was fast and the new chrome-like GUI is nice. However... as soon as my internet was back at full capacity I changed back to Chrome. You say you like it because of the completeness, but I found that it was missing quite a few small things which I cannot live without. Off the top off my head I can only remember two things - Tabs cannot be dragged in and out of windows Text cannot be selected and dragged into the URL bar

andrewl-hn 15y ago
Tabs CAN be dragged - at least on Windows and Linux - not sure about Mac. I also fell in love with tab stacking. It's just easier to group tabs into stacks in a single browser window than having separate windows. In later case I spend waaay too much time clicking wrong window.
ks 15y ago
> Text cannot be selected and dragged into the URL bar You can right click the text and select "Go to web address". It's quicker in my opinion.
- jigs_up 15y ago
  but i dont want to go to a web address, i want to drag some text into the url bar and have my default engine run a query on that text

sidmitra 15y ago

I agree with balakk on all of his points, since that's when i started using Opera too, around version 2. It still is the most complete browser experience without requiring any extensions. Another thing that makes me stick to it is the integrated mail client. It's extremely minimal, out of the way if you don't need it. My browser is always open, so having a built in client, that indexes my email, and is searchable even if i'm offline is definitely awesome. I don't need to use Thunderbird, etc, since the minimal features are all i need. Give it a spin!