Future Browser
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A Former User last edited by
Dear, I tested your Opera Neon years ago, and I like Opera the most of all popular browsers. Because it is fast and easy to use. Unfortunately, not all websites work, but you can live with that.
But I am quite disappointed with your team's vision for the future. If you ever thought of revolutionizing and innovating the browser market, you're on the wrong track. With Opera-Neon, you've obviously listened too much here to a community that is just a small part of a big mass out there. The big mass does not express itself here in a community. The big mass doesn't want to click much, doesn't care about AdBlock and co, Tab Spaces, etc. Most of them don't have 100 tabs, either.
Opera Neon was and could have served that market, the big market. Ever wonder why the big crowd still sticks with the default browsers and sees no reason to switch? Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox. They are all similar. One offers more privacy, the other less. But all of them are more about clicking and navigating, that is, browsing. In the last few years, browsers like Arc, Sigmaos, Orion, Iron, DuckduckGo, Mullvad, Command Browser, Dragon, Thorion, Epic, Brave, Samsung, and others have joined the ranks, and I don't even want to list them. Why hasn't any browser managed to reorder the market yet? The community like here, you can listen to that, but the fewest understanding what about the future and Google has already understood that at the beginning with your search engine. Fast, simple, intuitive, targeted. Opera Neon has also understood this. Yes, Arc or Sigmaos offer some nice features. But these are rather nice for companies and self-employed. But they do not affect the broad and large market.
So you should think again about the future of access to the net and if Opera Neon is not rather the better answer than to run after all other browsers and pick up the crumbs. People aren't just this community here. They need a real and simple reason to finally say why they should use another browser. Otherwise, you'll be like everyone else struggling to survive. Cheers
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canadagoose4everreturns last edited by@nickismyname Money determines a company's resources. Opera is not a company that has unlimited resources. It's a small player in the browser field. So, it has to cater to what "most" people want rather than try to be a niche player. And what do "most" people want in terms of a browser? Most want a browser that is easy to understand and use, does not struggle opening sites because the website designers have coded for that browser, offers a measure of privacy and security and gets "out of the way". The browser is not the objective; the website is. People want to do their banking, shop, go on a social media platform, read the news and the browser is simply a tool to get them to that objective. The idea of making a browser endlessly customizable does not appeal to most users but rather to a small, niche group who play with their browser's features and looks etc. Most people simply don't care. Browsers built on chromium (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi ...) are going to remain popular because web designers have coded for chromium browsers. Period. And sadly, statistics have shown that most simply accept whatever comes with the computer (i.e. the default browser). Hence Google Chrome will remain the main browser followed by Edge for years to come. And if a company wants to remain relevant, it has to code so that it is "similar" to Chrome (i.e. easy to use, fast, relatively secure, etc etc etc). And that's the long and short of it.
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A Former User last edited by
@canadagoose4everreturns dear, i think it's the other way around. Exactly for this reason, because people just want to surf and focus on the web, all browsers have the wrong direction and Opera is therefore not catching up. When google came along, everyone had also said who needs that, there is yahoo and co. Is always the people who think there is nothing it can change. People want simplicity, and that is no longer a browser. All browsers are just overloaded with features, and Opera Neon was not that. So according to you, no one will ever break the Chrome browser. Then we can also stop inventing new things, and luckily there are inventors like google inventors who think differently and thus break old structures. Yahoo was complicated, and google came and made it easier and better. You should always think new and rather think why the old thing you are holding on to is not working. Opera serves only a small mass as well as Brave, Firefox and co. Chrome set on few features to offer exactly that simplicity. Not because it's already installed on devices. It's not installed on Mac, Safari is. So that contradicts your statement. The fact that nothing changes is precisely because of such entrenched thought patterns and structures until someone comes along again and does it right. Would the creators of Google and Co listen to such opinions, most would still search with Yahoo and surf in IE. haha, exactly, because people want to have it easier they did not stay with IE and Yahoo. Cheers
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A Former User last edited by
And that Chrome is used the most, since it is supposedly always preinstalled, is not correct. On the contrary, this is ONLY true on Android. Only Edge is preinstalled on Windows and Safari on Mac. So users always have to manually reload Chrome. This is something to think about. This is not difficult. These are strategic considerations and what people really need is simplicity, which only Google has understood so far. Everything else, unfortunately, are just excuses for old structures.
Most think they understand what people need and are constantly going wrong and like to blame it on other things instead of getting it right, or new. One day someone will finally come along who will improve the wheel again and everyone else will stand there stupidly again and think, we would have done that once.
That's why Google has moved past everyone. Only those who think new and don't always blame it on the old and other reasons why their own doesn't work remain the ones who get lost in time. Microsoft has also thought this way with its IE and many others as well. Spotify has mercilessly overtaken Apple Music, although Apple Music was there first with the iPod. But it wasn't the perfect solution. In fact, it never is.
cheers
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canadagoose4everreturns last edited by
@nickismyname It seems to me that you do not read with full comprehension. You've misrepresented my words, constructed a strawman and then taken him apart. Hence, your two posts are without meaning in relation to what I said. Go back to my previous post and read it again: s-l-o-w-l-y this time. I see no reason to address what you've posted nor do I see any reason to repeat what I posted before. I stand by my original post and I believe that user stats bear this out.
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