Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Oct 2007 16:19 UTC, submitted by abdavidson
The first Beta of Opera 9.5 has been released. "Opera 9.5 adds Full Text History Search allowing you to access find pages you forgot to bookmark by simply typing just a few words into your toolbar! Opera also gives you the ability to Create Search shortcuts from any search field on the Web; and to Synchronize your Bookmarks, Speed Dial with any other Mac or PC computer, your cell phone, or the Opera-powered Nintendo Wii Internet Channel through My Opera."
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Member since:2005-07-13
Firefox does this, minus it's escalating memory utilisation.
You say this like it's no small thing. Firefox's resource usage is getting out of hand. I have an old PII750 tower system with Kubuntu that I mostly use as a home server, and occassionally as a desktop. I can load Opera, bring up Google, execute a search, and click on any one of the returned links in less time than it takes Firefox to even load. Let alone the way the system will start to crawl after a couple of hours of Firefox being open with multiple tabs.
I see no reason to bother with Opera. About the only thing I find it useful for is coming up with ideas which other browsers copy.
Some prefer to lead. You prefer to follow...
Member since:2005-12-15
Some prefer to lead. You prefer to follow...
That's a pretty long bow you're drawing there, considering you don't even know me.
I use Firefox because it does what I want. I'm not 'following' anyone. I 'choose' to accept Firefox because it does at the end of the day work the way I want it very well, even though its memory utilisation is horrid.
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2005-12-15
These reasons you list as features are actually the reason I don't bother. I already have an email, bit torrent, IRC and usenet client. I don't need or want a new one. Mine are set up the way I like it, work as I want them to and so I see little reason to bother with alternatives.
I don't care for "mouse gestures", widgets or notes.
For me, I just want a web browser which works the way I want it to. Firefox does this, minus it's escalating memory utilisation.
I see no reason to bother with Opera. About the only thing I find it useful for is coming up with ideas which other browsers copy.