Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 18th Sep 2009 18:51 UTC
You all know that I don't particularly like Opera. I find the product to be lacking polish, over-complicated and without the marketing pizazz that has made Firefox a household name. That's just my personal opinion, and that opinion has garnered many complaints of unjustness. To that end, to present a fairer discussion I would like to put a simple question to the community: "What should Opera do?".
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Personally, I'm not really interested in what Opera should do to increase its market share, because I much prefer FOSS software. I'd be more interested to hear opinions about what Free / Open Source Software browsers could learn from Opera? So, where do you think Opera does better than Firefox, Midori, Konqueror, Arora, ...?
I use Elinks quite a lot, because it works even without the Xorg-server. The Links version from the Twibright guys also shows pretty pictures (in directfb) without Xorg. For Xorg desktop environments I prefer XFCE4, and the new WebKit-based browser called Midori is well integrated with that environment. For KDE4 there are Konqueror and Arora. The gecko-based web browsers are also quite popular in all desktop environments.
I don't actually use desktop environments that much, just some applications that come with those environments. In practice I prefer stumpwm, and occasionally ratpoison, if I need a GUI. Anyway, I'd like to hear what advantages the Opera fanboys think their favourite browser has over the leading FOSS browsers. So, I'm here offering you a chance to praise Opera's virtues. Are there any?