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Please tell me I'm not the only person on Reddit & HN to have used Opera 9+ ? The "new tab page" is Opera's "Speed Dial" with a twist. Does Firefox have that
by shiranaihito 18y ago
Please tell me I'm not the only person on Reddit & HN to have used Opera 9+ ?
The "new tab page" is Opera's "Speed Dial" with a twist.
Does Firefox have that even as an add-on? Maybe they haven't realized it's an idea worth copying - but Google did.
- unalone 18y agoIt's available for Firefox. It's slow and occasionally causes crashes. I love what Aza writes about, but thus far he's shown himself to be much better at conception than at implementation. Even Songza, which is a neat concept and works nicely, doesn't fare well against much uglier sites such as Skreemr. While I read his blog, I do it for his ideas: not because I think he'll ever implement what he talks about.
- shiranaihito 18y agoJudging by his Google Chrome article, it looks like he wasn't aware of Opera's "Speed Dial". Maybe his "new tab page" was really an idea he had come up with on his own, without seeing Speed Dial. But maybe he had seen it, and just wanted to play a visionary to the Firefox crowd. It's mildly annoying to watch Firefox users admire Chrome's version of Speed Dial.
- unalone 18y agoYou know, I wouldn't put it past him to have never used the most recent version of Opera. It's kind of funny. He's the very definition of a nutty professor. He's obviously quite brilliant at what he does, and yet there have been a few cases in which he seems completely unaware of what's going on around him. He can be forgiven, though, because of Bloxes.