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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Member since:2005-07-22
Opera similarly needs its own feel that the daily user can get accustomed to.
Holy tap-dancing Jesus. It HAS it's own feel. It has themes, it was the first browser to implement tabs, gestures, fast dial, etc. All others copied it. So how's that it doesn't have its own feel? What do you expect from a browser besides working just fine? Does it need to morph into 3D and make coffee?
Member since:2008-01-07
Yes it has its feel. I also mean the part where I say "daily user [rather, a normal user] can get accustomed to" -- gestures, manual dial configuration, voice control, unite server -- these are features that a techie user would use. Personally, I use it for the visual tabs, mouse chording and the shift-based navigation it has. So yes, I *don't* want it to morph into 3D because like I already said, people would think of it as either slow or an IE extension.
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One thing I've noticed; is that people often first relent from even thinking of downloading it until they actually click it and say "It's just 6MB" -- how I understand it, is that when people look at the features they think it's slow and clunky out of feature-phobia. It might not be polished, but it's definitely not slow. Otherwise they think of it as one of those IE wrapper browsers -- this is a very important factor IMO.. They have to focus on an aspect of the browsing experience. For example, Chrome has "google feel" and firefox has the "open feel". Opera similarly needs its own feel that the daily user can get accustomed to.
Secondly, the much tauted "CSS compatibility" HAS to mean that it's strongly compatible with websites. However it has rendering issues in many of the top websites here and there, they have to really work hard to address that.