Opera Browser 8.52 Expected Today – Make The Switch?
Sushubh says that the Opera Desktop Team has revealed that Opera 8.52 edition is expected to be released today if there are no big issues. Opera, a huge Google partner, has been opening up its browser upgrade developments to a very loyal Opera using community.
Personally I’ve tested Opera and really enjoyed its usability, but am Mozilla loyal and have not been convinced yet to make the change.
This is your chance Opera Community, if you can convince me to make the change over to Opera I will wholeheartedly write about my experiences with the browser and even promote it here at Search Engine Journal. Just leave a remark in the comments field with reasons I should make the switch.
Until that time, I will happily use Mozilla Firefox.
Let’s be honest here. We don’t have to convince you (unlike most of the FF people I encounter). Try it. Anyone will be impressed with its speed, small download size, and features – but maybe it just isn’t for you. If you’d rather use Firefox, go for it. I’d rather use Opera.
I agree. It’s a browser, not an ideology. Give it a fair try and try to work out what Mozilla features you can and can’t get in Opera, and vice versa. Then use whichever browser works better for you.
Who has time for fanboys?
One Opera feature, though, that you might like is “Fit to window width” (Ctrl+F11). It stops this website from needing horizontal scrolling (which is probably something that needs fixing up).
Personally, i just like the fact that it incorporates email, rss, irc and web browsing in one client. So i just start Opera and i am set for a day. Life on the web couldnt be simpler in my view. Oh and all this in 4MB. Cool.
You can’t be convinced to switch – you would have to try it for yourself to see if it fits your needs. But if you are interested in learning more, I’m sure people could list their reasons for using Opera.
Me, I like the compact download and the speed (not just the browser itself, but it lets me do stuff faster). Related to that, I like time-savers like extensive mouse and keyboard accessibility (mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts (including spatial navigation for navigating links on a page using the keyboard)).
And even though it has a lot of these features you won’t notice them if you don’t want to use them. It’s nice that way – it’s clean and tidy when you install it even though it has lots of stuff.
I have only been using Opera for about 2 months but I have found it much more useful than all the others that I have tried.
Its got everything that I was looking for….
I have only been using Opera for about 2 months but I have found it much more useful than all the others that I have tried.
Its got everything that I was looking for….
Well Opera does have 90% of things without any additional enhanacements. Plus I don’t hear of any memory leaks like some browsers.
So you have something thats stable from the get go and doesn’t require any tuneups, then why go for these lesser browsers.
Opera is god for searching, absolute god.
There many ‘ways’ in which searching can be done – voice commands, keyboard shortcuts, doubleclick a word to get a search menu, from the address bar “g searchterm” , search panel, buttons,mouse gestures and the obvious google search box.
Also try running opera on a PIII 550 128mb system – it flies!!! Firefox on the otherhand crawls.
Wow, these are all very good reasons to make the switch. I’m reading with great interest and considering.
My point of view…
I started using internet back in the mid 90s … was one of first 10 000 users over here…
I almost never used IE, especially raw IE 5 or 6..
I have no reason to hate Mozilla foundation since I used their product for quite a long time…
I personally think that Firefox is quite a poor product, tried it and never liked it, especially those 1.0x versions… too much bugs, too little features, too complicated to use in some situations…
I used Mozilla suite for 2 years, but that project is very neglected, and even now when seamonkey is out, it is not top priority… I still believe that product was too good to leave behind…
I choose Opera it is the fastest, best looking, most customizable, fully featured internet suite there is.
It has the best engine there is, to proff that Opera has the best scores on all w3c test, their engine is used by Adobe and Macromedia and many other companies we should really care about.
Since version 7.5 there are some really great features, and more new are coming each time new version comes out.. etc
Many people say that firefox has extensions and opera doesn’t… and that is true.. but extension concept for adding features isn’t such a great idea.. for many reasons.. opera has a lot of integrated options, and it can be easily configred to work well with userjs and custom buttons toolbars, and from version 9, widgets and other cool things…
I’m not telling you should switch… that is a very painful and hard process.. but I do tell you yo give it a try, to search around and get better informed about it, and then, if you see that it is worth using, use it.
I really believe it is, and I couldn’t live without it now because it made my life a lot simpler..
Few links for you:
http://www.opera.com/features/
http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera
http://www.userjs.org/
;)
I used to be a FF user myself, but switched to Opera when I became a perpetual victim to FF’s memory leak issues. I’ll be honest – within my first hour of using Opera, I hated it. I found some features I liked, but my main gripe was that I couldn’t add on more features – or so I thought. ;)
I stuck with it though, out of a determination to give it a fair chance. I knew I wouldn’t learn all there was to know about what it had to offer immediately. I promised myself I would give it a week’s trial. During that time period I would do some research and find out if there wasn’t any ways of adding on features *I was especially sore for an in page ad blocker*. Luckily, I came across two great sites – Nontroppo and Userjs.org. They opened my eyes to how much this little browser can do, no extensions necessary. The only actual program/plugin I’ve had to install is Opera Ad Filter for in page ad blocking, which has turned out to be better than Adblock ever proved to be. It blocks 90% of in page ads at the sites I visit, with me only having to click an update button every couple of days. There’s another program that works just like Adblock on the Nontroppo site that allows you to right click on ads and block them, although when Opera 9 comes out this won’t be needed at all due to their improved content filtering.
With one click of a button, I can view a page in FF or IE, translate it, check the spelling, find out the pagerank, check it in Whois, view all the links, see various information about it such as security certificates and the type of encoding, check notes I’ve made from various websites, post in my blog, visit my favorite websites, fill out all my contact information in a form, fill out my username/password and automatically sign in, and check my email/rss feeds/emailing lists, all from a minimal and uncluttered interface *almost unbelievable, isn’t it?*. And speaking of the interface, it is so customizable you can practically put anything anywhere you want and have it behave any way you want it to.
M2 *Opera’s email client* has proved to be a blessing in disguise to me. Its setup has proved to be even easier than Outlook Express *especially for Gmail users like me*, it can handle multiple accounts from different servers *something Thunderbird can’t even do* and its filter system is nothing short of revolutionary. If you want to put an email in a new folder, all you have to do is add it to a new filter, and on one screen, you can choose if you want to send messages from the same sender or subject to that filter, have the filter learn from the messages you put in it, or leave it alone and have it act like a regular folder. You can apply multiple filters to one email if you want, as well. M2 also automatically filters your email groups and various kinds of attachments. I’m making it sound complicated, lol, but in reality it is so simple yet powerful it has made organizing and reading my email virtually effortless and enjoyable.
Despite all of this, the browser has an incredibly lightweight feel, and intuitive design. Features you may not want can be neatly tucked away and/or disabled (if they aren’t already by default). If you want to use your browser with only a mouse, you can do that, through menus and/or buttons and/or gestures. If you want to use it with only a keyboard, you can do that, too.
I guess the fitting slogan for Opera would be, “don’t dream it – do it”, lol.
Firefox is awesome, but Opera rocks, man!
Tools > quick prefs > Identify as Opera rather than some dirty you know ;)
long live opera.