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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I don't think they can do anything. Opera missed the personal browsing boat
Huh? Says who? Their desktop user base has grown by 65% in the last year. It's closing in on a market share of 10% in Europe. And so on.
Clunky UI or not, it was very speedy. Now they've lost that crown to chrome, and other browsers
Not at all. Not on real-world sites. SunSpider, the V8 benchmark and other artificial JS benchmarks DO NOT REPRESENT REAL SITES.
A widgets engine? Completely useless.
Yeah, because cross-platform applications are completely useless! Heh.
Other browsers are cross platform, and lots of them are open source or more extensible. I just don't see any advantages Opera has anymore.
Smaller, faster, more portable, etc.
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2005-09-21
I don't think they can do anything. Opera missed the personal browsing boat (not that they can't make good money without it).
It used to be that Opera was the fast browser, and I used it on some machines for that very reason. Clunky UI or not, it was very speedy. Now they've lost that crown to chrome, and other browsers (except IE of course) are close enough to make the difference insignificant.
So what's left? An email client? People use either Outlook or webmail (which opera has problems with). A torrent client? There's better ones out there. A widgets engine? Completely useless.
Other browsers are cross platform, and lots of them are open source or more extensible. I just don't see any advantages Opera has anymore.