opera 20 vs Chrome

uggrak

uggrak

This thread got a little out of hand and it seems the creator thought the same.
I cont give or think about any reason really to use the new Opera, I still use 12.17, but it is a little irritating with resource-hogging.

One thing that I can NEVER understand in these threads here is the term and in what way SPEED-dial is used.
For me that term indicates a short "list" of easily and very quickly accessed items. In a phone it would mostly be numbers.
Here it is web pages.
But as many try to convince the complainers (me included) the seems to want you to use it as a sort of bookmarkish-alternative.

When you have more than maybe 10 items, its not really a SPEED-Dial anymore, and certainly not if you have folders in it...
I don't really under stand that. Its just some sort of Bookmarks-alternative that is not as easily over viewed and organized imo.

A Former User

@uggrak "Speed Dial" here: https://forums.opera.com/post/42825

When you have more than maybe 10 items, its not really a SPEED-Dial anymore, and certainly not if you have folders in it...
What? You can still access the first 10 items very fast, and the access to all the other items and items in folders is not really different than a bookmarks menu with sub-folders. Specially if you use the keyboard to access your bookmarks.

It's quite possible to use Speed Dial for bookmarks. I do. For sessions too. I just recommend people to try it, if it doesn't work for you it's very easy to enable the bookmarks bar and drag your folders there... Or use a bookmarks extension, it's worth it if you like the other Opera features (if you miss classic bookmarks in Opera why not install a bookmarks extension rather than switching to another browser and installing extensions like "Neater Bookmarks" on it to recover the features you'd miss?).

ayushs

ayushs

I'd been using Opera, since the 90's when there used to be banners. Like I was a big fan of Opera since, as @cfpt pointed, it was awesome. I recently switched to Chromium and eventually to Chrome. Few reasons:

Both Chrome/Chromium and Opera now use the webkit browser underneath the hood so the rendering time of the pages are just the same.
As a developer compared to Opera DragonFly, Google Developer tools are easier to use and more importantly loads faster. I'm writing in reference to Opera 20.
I often travel to rural areas in Asia as a part of my work where 256 Kbps internet is a luxury. At such times, the author-mode and no-image mode used to be lifesavers along with the turbo-boost. Opera 20 doesn't have those customizations available anymore.

Disappointed.

Deleted User

Deleted User

I'm also sticking to 12.14 as this is the most productive browser for me. The great features of Opera 20 may be great for other people, personally I don't care about the speed dial, I'd rather have more capabilities in the bookmark bar. I think most of the new Opera features can be easily added to Chrome via Extensions, and no, it's not too slow after all. But features like patching certain URLs with personal CSS files, or the great editability of keyboard and mouse interfaces of 12.14 are unbeatable. I like Fast Forward and the Download Manager, Opera link (without google involved) and IRC, drag and drop everything and no-image-mode.

But most of all, I like that I always know what's happening, what is supposed to happen, what it means if something is off.

In my opinion Opera could've got rid off mail-client in favor of better webmail-support, and thrown the Unite and Widgets out to slim it all down and focus on the important stuff.