famrey

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by famrey 16y ago
He isn't suggesting a way to browse the web without Opera. He's suggesting a way to overcome design problems on a site.
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by famrey 16y ago
Opera Mini browses the web. It's a browser.
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by famrey 16y ago
That could be because Skyfire is, frankly, crap.
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by famrey 16y ago
Maybe you should read the article, then?
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by famrey 16y ago
Yes, because Opera Mini can run on faster phones, but most sold phones are still the cheap ones, and that isn't changing any time soon. And with operators cutting down on data plans, limited bandwidth isn't going away any time soon either.
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by famrey 16y ago
The problem is that most of the world is not going to be using these powerful phones, and in the parts of the world where you can use them, operators are already killing unlimited data plans. You are living in a dream world if you think com
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by famrey 16y ago
You are wrong. Opera will NOT strip out ads from pages. What Opera will do is to let the owner of the page choose to serve ads to mobile browsers through Opera's ad network. So any ads from Opera on a site will be because the owner of the s
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by famrey 16y ago
"they hijack HTTPS sessions" Trolling much? They aren't hijacking anything. Opera Mini is a thin client (which lets it run on just about any phone, including old and crappy ones), so they have no choice but to pass everything through the re
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by famrey 16y ago
What's wrong is that one feature gets one score, and another feature gets a much higher score. Scores are not based on the number of supported features, but on higher scores for certain features.
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by famrey 16y ago
More than 1/3 of Opera's revenue is from the desktop browser. It's simply false to claim that it exists on the basis of mobile browsers (superb or not).
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by famrey 16y ago
> I guess you have to credit Opera for sticking it out this long, years after they dropped off the radar of basically everybody. I don't get it. They were never on the radar. They are now. They've got more than 140 million users. >
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by famrey 16y ago
By the way, claiming that Firefox is lean because it sets hard limits instead of adapting the memory usage dynamically is pretty silly...
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by famrey 16y ago
A random number like that is pretty useless. Opera has dynamic handling of RAM, so if you have a lot of it, it will use more. If you have less, it will use less. I'm guessing you have at least 1-2 GB RAM.
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by famrey 16y ago
> Although Opera is positioned itself as standard compliant, it has many issues with javascript. I would have to disagree. Some people keep claiming that, but they can never seem to provide any evidence that Opera has more problems than
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by famrey 16y ago
Why should people have to understand URLs? Do most people understand how the engine of a car works? No. They just want to get from A to B. Most people don't care. Hiding query parameters hides yet another thing that's mostly unreadable anyw
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by famrey 16y ago
Google can't even get Chrome to work on all their own services. How can you expect them to support Opera?
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by famrey 16y ago
That site isn't very useful since it only reflects what the author thinks is important. It doesn't show actual standards compliance. He chooses tests and assigns scores according to his own priorities. So it's misleading to call it "html5te
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by famrey 16y ago
It's a good codec. But as you can see, the specification was clearly not finished. So On2 sold a codec package that wasn't very polished. Doesn't mean it wasn't worth the money. It just means that polish needs to be applied, and now that it
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by famrey 16y ago
On2 does not have the resources of Google and the entire internet at their disposal. Even the x264 developer pointed out that the VP8 spec was clearly unfinished.
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by famrey 16y ago
The opera.com entry addresses that update. Look at the WebM FAQ: They have a separate branch for possible improvements for inclusion on the main branch.
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by famrey 16y ago
There was no way to give people time to figure it out. The acquisition needed to remain a secret until actually carried out, and once it was carried out, this was the only way to inform people. Also, Opera Software has an excellent privacy
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by famrey 16y ago
No, Opera has a very clear focus. They are not only a browser company, but also provides browser related services. They make money off of those things. With this they can offer better email/messaging services to their business customers.
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by famrey 16y ago
The founder hasn't been involved with the service for years. The people who actually ran the service are still running it, and will keep doing that as Opera employees. Also: Opera doesn't just make browsers. Opera also makes all sorts of se
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by famrey 16y ago
If you read Opera's statements, they are not going to change the service. It's going to keep running as it always has. They are just going to use the technology to build other stuff or something.