Even though Opera is the most popular mobile browser in the world, in the desktop market Opera is the most under-rated browser despite having created many innovative features. Which were later copied by other browsers.
Its hard to understand why Opera has only ~2.2% browser market share while IE6 still boasts a whopping ~14.5% market share. Maybe the Opera developers were so busy developing solid browser features that they forgot that they need to do some promotions in order for people to use it. In contrast IE developers were so busy shoving their crap browser down people’s throat they forgot to make a half decent browser. Whatever is the case, the internet is a better place today thanks to some of the innovations that started from the Opera camp.
Source (with a grain of salt)
1) Speed Dial: First introduced by opera in 2007, copied by Chrome since the beginning, added to Safari 4 since beta and can be added to Firefox in the form of an extension.
2) Tabbed Browsing: There are some disagreements about who introduced tabbed browsing. The first version of Opera in 1994 (named MultiTorg Opera) introduced MDI tab where each tabs could be resized, tiled, cascaded and moved. But Netcaptor in 1997 was the first browser that offered the current form of simple fixed tabs that we are used in browsers (but at the bottom). Tabs on top of the browser (unlike Netcaptor) was also introduced by Opera in 2000.
[ Tabs in general applications was first introduced by IBM and adobe holds some sort of patent for tab functions, but thats a different story ]
3) Sessions: The ability to save browser session was introduced with Opera 2 in 1996. If you close your opera browser or it crashed you can go back to your last auto saved session including history of that session. This feature has been since copied in one form or another by other browser but none of them are as extensive as Opera session, where you can save a whole session of browser history in to text file and transfer in to a different computer and resume from there.
4) Pop-up Blocking: Imagine a web experience without pop-up blocker. What we take for granted today was first introduced by Opera 5 in 2000. Firefox picked it up soon and IE joined in the party in 2004.
5) Full page Zoom: A better alternative to larger text, zooming increases the size of the page without distorting the layout by only increasing the text size. Introduced by opera in 1996, and now all major browsers have this feature.
6) BitTorrent: Opera was the first to have torrent support built-in to the browser since 2006. It uses its download manager to download a torrent file like a regular download.
7) Delete Private Data: The ability to remove personal information from your browser was first introduced by Opera in 2000. We had to manually delete personal info BO (before Opera).
8) Mouse gestures: Using mouse gestures to perform repetitive tasks like scrolling tabs, closing tabs, back and forward button using gestures was meant as an alternative to keyboard shortcuts for maximum productivity. This feature was introduced by opera in 2001 and now Firefox supports this functions with the help of an extension.
Conclusion: This is not a complete list and Opera was not the only browser that had unique ideas and innovations that changed the way people use browser. But no other browsers had so many innovative ideas that has been copied with great success by almost every other browsers. Yet, Opera’s market share is still around 2% while other browsers are benefitting from its ideas.
The Opera team will have to take some blame for not doing enough to promote their browser in desktop market (they are big in mobile browser market), also for the longest time Opera has this stigma attached to it because it used to be a commercial trialware browser and later ad-sponsored. But since 2000 they moved away from trialware and from 2005 they removed ad-sponsorship. Will they ever be a major player in the browser market share, now that the competition is greater than ever? Difficult to predict, but hopefully we will continue to benefit from great ideas delivered by the Opera team.
Comments:
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Pavs
06/12/2009Thanks for your comments.
During the database transfer quite a few comments (10 -15 ) got deleted. Sorry about that.
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D'n
06/12/2009I’ve been an Operanut since version 6. About the best feature IMAO is that O doesn’t use the registry in Windoze, and the same preferences, bookmarks, whatever can be directly copied from your M$ platform to your Linux ones, where O runs just fine, thank you very much.
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jonny
06/12/2009Nice article. I would like to mention that the very popular “Built-in search field”, which adopted by many browsers today is also first introduced by Opera.
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firewolf
06/12/2009And what about Opera Link? This is the best thing i ever seen in a browser. I have all my favorites on my XP, Ubuntu and OSX. :)
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gbattle
06/12/2009I think Opera’s failure is in marketing. If they had any idea how to market themselves they would likely have a much greater market share. I didn’t even know there was a browser called opera till in my first or second year of University (2006ish).
Firefox has a big community around it. The Mozilla community is a key example of how to rally user support around an open source application. Comparatively, Opera don’t take out advertising (that i’ve seen) and fail to foster and nurture a community (in the same way IE fails to do this).
What I have seen from using Opera isn’t all that great either; When i tested it recently on Ubuntu i found that it used Qt as the graphical library, so came out quite ugly under Gnome (compared to Firefox), and although it does have many innovative features, most of them are unevolved and un-refined. This is where other browsers have successfully stolen features from Opera. They don’t simply steal the features, they improve them.
My point is that Opera’s failure to capture market share is more poor marketing and management, rather than purely because it has too much competition.
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Tan The Man
06/12/2009Didn’t skip a beat using Opera on Windows, but Safari on Mac is hard to replace…
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Blixkreeg
06/12/2009Hold down Ctrl then click on an image. You get the save dialogue. Open up a bunch of images in different tabs and use that function, down-right to close tab, repeat… download tons of images easily. I used to love this before I discovered the Pterodactl extension on Firefox.
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Jote
06/12/2009Marketing, well… perhaps they didn’t want to risk becoming a “religious cult” like Firefox.
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Creative Copywriting
06/12/2009i have not used opera till now but this make me think why i have not,
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The Zadeh
06/12/2009I’ve been using Opera since 2005. I have firefox & IE loaded on my work laptop, but I always use Opera unless I’m on a site that is acting funny with it. One thing you forgot to mention is how Opera has the smallest footprint; it takes up the least amount of space and it’s the safest. It runs faster than anything and it’s download manager is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than firefox’s. Most of my friends use the fox, but Opera is my #1 squeeze. Also, the myopera feature is awesome! Opera is also te best for surfing porn (especially if you have a nosey girlfriend ;)
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Matt
06/12/2009I think it’s missing the point to say Opera can’t market themselves very well. All the browsers with larger market shares can find or appeal to users a lot easier. From IE being shipped with Windows, Safari with Macs, Firefox having a massive open source community to continually big it up (and the animosity towards IE to play off too) and Chrome having Google behind it so automatically getting a lot of publicity. I think it’s impressive on the other hand that Opera has still managed to keep going and to push the boundaries over so many years with such a relatively small market share and a comparative lack of resources at their disposal.
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bii
06/12/2009“I think Opera’s failure is in marketing.”
Why do you say that? How do you know that it’s marketing and not user retention that is the problem (due to Microsoft making sites incompatible with other browsers)?
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Razor512
06/12/2009Opera has very few users because of their UI, simple options that are constantly used on all browsers which are in plain view in firefox and IE are hidden away in a menu in opera
another problem, no easy way to get extensions for opera. while there are a few, it takes a lot of work to get them installed and even then they don’t work all the time
i wonder where the home button went
while with all of these browsers, you can somewhat customize them, no one wants a browser thats far gone in terms of a UI, it is just frustrating to use
also firefox has adblock, opera doesn’t (only some stupid plugin that somewhat works but if hard to install and has very few features
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E5
06/12/2009Why don’t I tell you why I don’t use Opera?
It’s not just marketing. I think most people that use computers eventually hear about Opera and even try it out.
The reason many people don’t continue using it is because it isn’t compatible with websites like Firefox and IE are.
And this creates a circle because fewer people use Opera because of its inability to show correctly their favorite websites. And People who create the sites/software don’t care about creating Opera compatible add-ons etc. Which continues to keep Opera use low.
It’s Opera fault for being so closed minded and not catering to the user but to their own ideas about how things should be. And this is coming from a person who likes everything else about Opera-except that it isn’t as compatible as Firefox or IE. If it was I’d be using Opera right now instead of Firefox.
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fred snerd
06/12/2009yes, it’s opera’s way or the highway. that attitude is why they have the market share they do. it’s not about the consumer, it’s about opera. opera seems to be a little miffed that we just won’t accept what they give us, as they seem to think they know what’s best for us
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Hydtech
06/12/2009Yup. Opera is the best browser and has so many features built in. The reason Firefox won is probably because it generated a cult following and was more customizable for amateur users.
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Murali Narayanan
06/12/2009Another innovation – Opera show
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Andrew J
06/12/2009I actually use all the major browsers fairly regularly with the exception of IE. Firefox is my primary browser, followed by Opera. Then comes Chrome and Flock and then lastly Safari (the only browser that drives me nuts, now that IE7 is a distant memory). If it wasn’t for Firefox, Opera would have been my default.
But Firefox, for me has become something of an Internet workstation, thanks to the its extensibility. So many things are made simpler and faster with the right selection of add-ons. What Opera needs is a similar extension platform that provides the same amount of extensibility as Firefox. It’s clear that the Opera team has good ideas, but FF is being built and supported by many more minds and there’s more dialogue taking place, even between those who create extensions and those who use them. The end result is that Firefox gets more promotion because there are more people talking and there’s simply more to talk about. New extensions are coming out all the time and they’re getting more and more amazing – for example, take a look at Foxtabs, KallOut, DownloadHelper and Grab and Drag. As someone else mentioned, browsers like IE, Chrome and Safari get lots of free press because they’re linked to big money-earners MS, Google and Apple. The only way for Opera to gather more users is to truly give them a browser that they can make their own by adding function to it via extensions. Then everyone will start talking. -
Jaelani
06/13/2009I think why Opera has low market share is that its first impression for new users trying out Opera. They probably think that it’s a bit difficult to use. Well, I’ll have to agree on that even though I’ve been using Opera since version 5. Its interface does look a bit cluttered, uncommon and gives the impression of a complex browser. While Opera is highly customizable, on its first installation into a system it should provide the interface theme/set that looks as common as posssible so that new users can adapt quickly or even with no adaptation at all. All visible features/controls not available in other browsers should be hidden unless the users demand them.
Other factor may be because the goal and vision of Opera where it respects internet standards but taking it too seriously. It disregards that more than 50% of web pages are not 100% adhere to the standard and/or made for a specific web browser feature. The result is that those pages are broken and don’t display/work correctly. Unfortunately, Opera doesn’t seem want to support those non-standard browser features. Without these, there are probably more than 33% of websites that won’t work. IMHO, most surfers don’t care about standards. They just want to surf the web.
But really, I’m quite annoyed because many Opera features are copied by other web browsers and they took all the credits and enjoy the fruit. The Opera marketting should emphasizes its every new features in the future so that non Opera users know it was pioneered by Opera aside from its high customizability, feature rich, fast and can make web pages display like the users wanted.
Nuff said.
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karatchov
06/13/2009There are some other missing innovations:
* Email client
* IRC Client
* RSS reader
* Opera link (notes and bookmark synchronizations)
* Opera sidebar
* Skins, and personalisations
* A lot of small useful details (F12 menu, Past&Go, Words selections) -
Albi
06/14/2009Another great invention by Opera is ‘Paste and Go’. So small & often overlooked, it is probably my favorite one! Although FF has an extension like it, other browser didn’t bother to implement it thus far.
Also, as I write this I came to realize how useful the ‘Inline spell-checker’ is in Opera 10 beta.
All the more reason to use Opera. Great browser!
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Michal
06/14/2009I’ve been using Opera since version 5 (that was IE6 domination time as far as I remember) and really love it.
Still, there are few showstoppers for this excellent browser:
- is not open source
so doesn’t have that much support and community around it. For geeks – if something goes wrong, you cannot look at the source code and play with it
- it is Windows-only browser
sure, it runs on many OSes, but it’s main target feels to be Windows, so Linux users keep telling it sucks compared to FF. And they are probably right.
- page displaying problems
this is much, much less of an issue now, I have problems with several sites only. At the same time, they are standards-compliant. Impressive!
- debugging tools
dragonfly is a good thing and step in the right direction, but firebug is so much better. That’s why I frequently debug the sites with Firefox
- lack of plugins
there are widgets which are pretty useless, while Firefox’s plugins rock
- settings
IMHO, default settings are choosen very poorly, I just cannot stand them.
Settings menu is a bit complicated, could be organized in a better way.
- history
being trialware and adware in the past doesn’t helpSome of the reasons for using browser (in my subjective opinion):
Chrome – backed by google, new simplistic approach, fast
Firefox – huge support, very nice browser
Lynx – because the web is for content, not porn. Wait, what?
Safari – the only sensible choice for Mac users
IE – a few options:
a) it’s just there and works, why bother changing?
b) what is a browser? I don’t need one, I use Interent I have on my desktop!
c) intranet apps, windowsupdate and many other sites work only on IE, or work best on IE
d) cost of moving large organization is high. Hey, it works, why bother?
e) user is open to the world – likes to have his collection of viruses updated and sensitive information published
f) may be that user is just stupid
g) there is probably moreSo, why to use Opera? There is really a lack of message. The reasons may be:
- standards compliant
yes, awesome, but who cares?
- one of the quickest ones, if not the quickest
Firefox without plugins lacks functionality. With them, Opera is usually faster and consume less memory.
- post your own
__________________I consider Firefox to be #1 browser, with close follow-up from my personal favourite Opera. Mind that the guys are smart (the’ve proven this many times) and may eventually do something that changes the game on their favour. Keeping fingers crossed!
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Joe
06/14/2009I have used Opera for several years and still do because its way faster than the others on my 500Mhz machine which I found on the street. Unfortunately FF with a bunch of add-ons is too slow.
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tayker
06/14/2009Opera is a great browser. However, I think what’s keeping it where it’s at are: 1. extensibility, and 2. experience.
I can completely understand the logic of keeping the browser proprietary. However, give users an API to build additional functionality into the browser. I think widgets are a novelty because if I’m going to have all of my sites open in tabs then why would I want to clutter up my desktop with widgets? Sure, there are some ways around this with custom scripting, but it’s not as integrated as it should be. For example, being a multi-platform user there are certain programs I use for specific purposes, like passwords. However, Opera is the only browser that I can’t integrate KeyPass, LastPass, or 1Password with. I can add all the $$’s I want to show teenage angsty rage against Microsoft (looks creepy from older people), but when IE gives me more functionality than another browser then what benefit am I going to get by making a 2 minute Internet experience with Firefox, IE, or Safari when Opera makes it into a 15 to 30 minute experience?
Unless Opera, a web surfing tool, has something catchy like Firefox extensibility then I think they need to leave the “social” aspect alone. My web experience isn’t determined by widgets, Opera Mail, my.opera, etc, it’s determined by being able to do what I want. I really like Opera, and I probably use it 2% of the time because I get frustrated by minutiae of other browsers – I haven’t found the perfect browser yet. However, when it comes to doing more than reading sites I then go to my other browsers.
One last issue I have is Flash. Flash plus Opera equals skitchy. Why can’t I see a frame and a loading screen like other browsers? Why does Opera choke when I have more than 1 tab open with Flash-based content? I think the Opera developers need to stop over-extending themselves with novelty ideas and concentrate on the solid foundation they have and refine it.
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Pallab
06/15/2009Opera didn’t invent tabbed browsing. There isnt any debate about it. MDI wasn’t tabbed browsing. It was invented by The Internet Works in 1994. Netcaptor came in much later (1997/98).
Opera employed tabbed browsing slightly after that. It however is a pioneer of tabbed browsing, since it invented majority of the features related to tabbed browsing. -
Marshall
06/15/2009W3C is a the group that sets web standards – it’s there to make it easy for developers to make sites that lok good under all browsers. IE is the worst in not following these standards, some developers are lazy -’IE is the biggest, I’ll make it work there and thrrow in some code for Firefox and maybe Safari. That will cover most everyone.’
Years ago(8?) MS got ticked at Opera – in an update to Windows Update and Microsoft sites they made it so all the text on the site was microscopic, forcing you to use IE for updates. Opera did get them back a little with a special ‘Swedish Chef’ version.
Industry standards like W3c are a good thing for us all – if MS had it’s way IE would be the only browser (they have tried) and their ‘innovations’ would be the only ones you get. If that happened we’d become more and more a MS world – ‘I just want my web pages to work and they only mostly work in IE’. Seeing how Opera is continuing to push innovations , how can you not support them if you call yourself a Geek. It doesn’t have to be your fav browser, but keep playing wih it, it just might.
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Mark
06/16/2009You can add Opera Unite to the list. Another truly revolutionary innovation, that others will be copying in a short while…
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Mike
06/16/2009The single reason I don’t use Opera is because of their decision in the past to have an adware / trialware version. I suspect charging for a web browser turned off thousands of people who haven’t since returned.
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Jonathan Wong
06/16/2009Two things that really doomed Opera:
1. The whole trialware, adware debacle. People have expectations that a web browser is free, and this just turned many people off from even downloading Opera to try it.
2. No developer platform. This was what allowed Firefox to chisel away share from IE. The customizability of Firefox was really a game-changing feature that far surpasses whatever innovation that Opera came up with themselves.
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George
06/16/2009Maxthon.com add-on is far more innovative: super drag and drop to name just one feature, gestures and tab browsing before opera.
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JS
06/16/2009One of the things I saw over and over again was that opera didn’t work with certain pages. indeed, some pages didn’t work well, but Opera 10 fixes the majority of those issues.
Likewise, I heard complaints about the interface, but I don’t know why. The right click context menu is still present, and all of the typical buttons are there. Someone wanted to know where the home key was. Well, it’s the 6th button on the address bar, shaped like a house. Tough find.
As an opera user for the last 2 years or so, I must say I really love it. IE is terrible, I find firefox annoying on several levels (though has it’s advantages) and safari is just not an option for me (it’s terrible too). Opera has done a lot to make the browsing experience pleasant, quick, small, and versatile. I know there are a lot of people here who are criticizing Opera without having tried it or tried it lately, and I’d really like to recommend to everyone to give Opera another chance.
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Don Zafir
06/17/2009Okay, first of all, Opera is much superior to Firefox *out-of-the-box*. I don’t care about the feedreader, mail client and IRC. But the bittorrent support and the download manager is AWESOME! No other browser offer a download manager as good as Opera.
Second, most of *casual* users (moms, grandmas, girlfriends, high paying office dudes, etc) never install any extentions to their Firefox. I’ve seen too many not-too-savvy Firefox users don’t even install Adblocker.
The only things that hold Opera back is the community support.
Casual users don’t care about the open source sh*t. They just want to surf. So, when a so called open source-aware geek a better browser, they will most probably accept Firefox as is. Not knowing there are other browers availiable.
I hate seeing FF fanboys go Opera-bashing. Lemme ask you something, what the hell did you use when there was only Netscape (which was pay software) and IE? Did you use Netscape even though it was a trialware?
And what the heck did you use after IE beat the crap out of Netscape between 1998-2004? IE?
Most of you probably used IE, while Opera was there all along. It’s not Opera’s fault. You are just ignorant.
Stop this “Opera is an ad-supported-ware” argument you are using, NOOBS!
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Manoj
06/19/2009Articles on Opera are hard to come by. The internet is full of articles on Firefox. This is a really nice one on Opera.
Opera- The innovator.
Rest (Including Firefox)- Copycats. -
skh.pcola
06/20/2009If you don’t like the wand function, just use CTRL-ENTER…that automatically fills in the UserName/PW fields and takes you to the next screen.
I’ve been using Opera since it was a paid browser…and still love it. The Notes function is great for research and I have thousand of notes that I can search through to find sources.
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Clearly Biased
06/24/2009I can tell you why it is lucky to have a couple percent. It is generally unusable in the real world. I love Opera. No drag ‘n drop by itself makes it useless. So many major sites do not support Opera. A long list of features that don’t work. For me the worst is Gmail. I reformats my beautifully crafted email layouts to a large lumpy glob. I use the “sessions” incessantly. But it is not even up to alpha shareware. Just a concept. I guess it is symbolic of Opera design criteria. Tacky Techie. No business people involved. Not much view of who the customer segments are out there, their communication channels to the various segments. and no partnering with business people who could make Opera a true Value Proposition. And Torrents??? OK, I get who their target market segment is. How did they get up to 2%? It may be the best built, best feature browser, but it is still unusable as anything but a novelty. I have a list that goes on and on. But I’m a business coach. I see things differently than the tech heads. Gotta Luv’m
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soul
06/27/2009Using Opera for the last 4-5 years. Its the best browser out there.
Just one grudge is that it doesn’t have StumbleUpon support, so have to keep FF too :| -
Darren
06/27/2009Opera also has at the time of this post a useful easy to use feature called “Fit to Width” to fit the page to the screen without making the text too small, but Firefox does not seem to have this, including in add-ons for Firefox
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Hector Macias Ayala
08/05/2009@Michal
Why to use Opera?
Because my local cell phone company sends alerts to my phone whenever I receive a new mail and provides me with POP access, which I can take advantage of with the Opera built in mail client, so I just redirect everything to that mail account, I don’t have to waste my time looking for an extension that will work just as long as I don’t update my browser, because then I have to wait that the person who made it updates it. In short I don’t need extensions in Opera, when I update Opera everything gets an update, and it is all there out of the box.and yeah, many widgets are useless, but so are many FF extensions, I don’t use them anyway.
is that enough reason for you?
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infinice
09/03/2009An impressive list! Too bad an ungrateful world doesn’t care who was first, only who’s best, now. For instance: Firefox extension writers took the speed dial and outdid Opera’s.
Opera still scrambles pages and still lacks one click bulk downloads [like FF's downthemall],thumbnail expander, etc. etc. etc.
Opera’s market share is slowly eroding because it refuses to address these core issues. Only Firefox’s bugginess keeps it in business. -
paon
12/12/2009I don’t buy these “Opera is not compatible enough” stuff. On Mozilla boards, you can read : “this site doesn’t work with Firefox but it does with Opera/IE/Safari” as well.
No, I think it’s a bad strategy.
First of all, Opera has waited too long to get free. It started in 2005, with Opera 8, at this time Firefox already had 20% market share.
Plus, I think Opera is not enough “international”, it’s all about english. You’ll find a lot of non-officials website and forums about Firefox, with a nice community, but very few with Opera. All the news, the youtube video, the advertising, it’s always in english. -
Mark A
12/22/2009I’ve been using Opera for many years and WAS very happy with it.
You could select it to identified itself as Opera, Internet Explorer or
Mozilla (Netscape)
Up to version 8.01 it used Internet Explorer code, when set as Opera,IE or NS.
This meant that it would also run VBScript etc.
Version 9.62 switched to Netscape code when running in Opera,IE or Firefox (NS) mode. So any page with VBScript will no longer work.
Yesterday I upgraded to Opera 10.10.
No error messages when installing it but when I try to run it all I get is an hourglass then the borders of a window tries to open and then closes. (No redraw of window title or main part of window)
I’ve tried un-installing and re-installing it a few more times and rebooting PC. (No change)
My PC is running Windows XP, so if anyone is using it on Windows XP and can get it to work, then please let me/us know?Who said that the next version will be better than the last version?
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nintendo1889
01/23/2010I always thought OmniWeb on NextStep was the introducer of tabbed browsing. Can anyone vouch for that?
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third.musketeer
02/05/2010I have been a big fan of Opera yet I haven’t used it extensively, primarily because many websites have poor support for Opera.
But I can add one feature which got me introduced to Opera.
Turn off Image downloads :- back in 1998-1999 I was connecting to internet using 14.4kbps modem from a third world country. Browsing was very slow because of image rich websites, through a magazine I found that Opera had this feature that you could turn off image downloads and keep the view of the webpage as if the images were being displayed. Secondly you could pick and choose which images to download by clicking on them.
This was a such fantastic feature that for the next 2-3 years I used Opera extensively but as time passed I had trouble with many websites being incorrectly displayed in Opera, at that time I blamed Opera for their laziness but now I realize that its the job of the website developer to make sure that the website is compatible with a certain browser.
Another feature which is far superior to the other browsers is the Wand for password management. (It still needs some improvement) but I still use Opera for this feature.
Now on my winmobile device, I only use Opera and love it.
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Carrie
03/01/2010Sure, its the webmaster fault for not supprting Opera. If only we can tell those webmasters how wonderfull opera is….hmm
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Wilcox28Tracie
03/06/2010I strictly recommend not to wait until you earn big sum of cash to order different goods! You can get the loans or consolidation loans and feel fine
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06/11/2009
I only started using Opera few months ago and I can tell I was really impressed. Considering the fact that I am a big time Firefox fanboy and been using it for as long as I can remember. Dragonfly is as good as firebug for web developers and works almost the same way, but it needs a bit getting used to.
Thanks for digging up these stuff, I really didn’t know so many ideas started off from Opera, and now when I use it I have a lot more respect for it.