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IE comes bundled with 90% of computers. Safari comes bundled on a good portion of the other 10%. Firefox has massive support from the open source movement and t

IE comes bundled with 90% of computers. Safari comes bundled on a good portion of the other 10%. Firefox has massive support from the open source movement and the tech community in general. Chrome has free advertising on the front page of Google.com. Opera has... a small group of loyal fans?

req2 17y ago
Not to mention memories of a price. I wonder if rebranding when they went free would have helped them.
pj 17y ago
I use Opera for my main browser, but I run firefox for app dev/debugging issues. FireBug is the best thing about firefox. I believe Opera has the best dev team out there. Their pages render correctly more often than any other browser. If ever I wonder if something is working correctly, I check it in Opera. If IE looks like Opera, then IE is right. If Firefox looks like Opera, then Firefox is right. That's how it goes. As I use Opera, I continue to find awesome features I really love, Their dev team is so creative. They are visionaries. It's an amazing product. Unfortunately, a lot of websites will say, "You aren't using the right browser!" but it almost always renders correctly and sometimes they block me all together, so I just right click open in > whatever that site wants. So awesome! I love Opera.
- hboon 17y ago
  It's been a few years since I last used Opera (using Safari now since I switched to Macs). Rather than the browser, what I was most impressed about them was the M2 email client. Maybe others have caught up now, but back then, it was incredible. Good search, virtual folders (think Gmail labels), etc.
- endtime 17y ago
  >I believe Opera has the best dev team out there. Their pages render correctly more often than any other browser. If ever I wonder if something is working correctly, I check it in Opera. If IE looks like Opera, then IE is right. If Firefox looks like Opera, then Firefox is right. That's how it goes. I wish that were true, but my experience has often been otherwise. There are some sites that I just know won't work in Opera, either in stable or 10 alpha (which passes Acid3) or both. I'm still a die-hard Opera fan, though. It feels so much cleaner and faster than Firefox.

req2 17y ago

Not to mention memories of a price. I wonder if rebranding when they went free would have helped them.

pj 17y ago

I use Opera for my main browser, but I run firefox for app dev/debugging issues. FireBug is the best thing about firefox. I believe Opera has the best dev team out there. Their pages render correctly more often than any other browser. If ever I wonder if something is working correctly, I check it in Opera. If IE looks like Opera, then IE is right. If Firefox looks like Opera, then Firefox is right. That's how it goes. As I use Opera, I continue to find awesome features I really love, Their dev team is so creative. They are visionaries. It's an amazing product. Unfortunately, a lot of websites will say, "You aren't using the right browser!" but it almost always renders correctly and sometimes they block me all together, so I just right click open in > whatever that site wants. So awesome! I love Opera.

hboon 17y ago
It's been a few years since I last used Opera (using Safari now since I switched to Macs). Rather than the browser, what I was most impressed about them was the M2 email client. Maybe others have caught up now, but back then, it was incredible. Good search, virtual folders (think Gmail labels), etc.
endtime 17y ago
>I believe Opera has the best dev team out there. Their pages render correctly more often than any other browser. If ever I wonder if something is working correctly, I check it in Opera. If IE looks like Opera, then IE is right. If Firefox looks like Opera, then Firefox is right. That's how it goes. I wish that were true, but my experience has often been otherwise. There are some sites that I just know won't work in Opera, either in stable or 10 alpha (which passes Acid3) or both. I'm still a die-hard Opera fan, though. It feels so much cleaner and faster than Firefox.