v21 vs v20? Stable yet?
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lem729 last edited by
Isn't a discussion in the abstract not productive? Might the issue not depend upon how many features are added, and what kind of features? I mean is there no end to what and how much you can add without affecting browser performance? Are we in browser never never land? It just sounds implausible. Also, there's an issue about expense. To add many features, some complex, to a basic browser, without affecting performance may involve sophisticated and time-consuming programming. It's easy enough to say to the developer to give us our wish list, since we're paying nothing. The developer has to look at two issues: (1) what can I program the browser to do -- how many hoops can I have it jump through -- without adversely affecting browser performance? AND (2) how can I keep my costs down so I can produce this product at a profit?. It's easy enough to want more features. There's no end to what we want, with many of us not at all in agreement as to the features we deem essential and would be pleased to see added to the basic browser. But looking at both those issues may well have driven the new Opera into a "basic browser with extensions" mode.
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samkook last edited by
How many, no, but what kind they are, as I said, certainly. We can't do much more about that than talk though and in my experience, they don't care much about what we say in here.
It certainly isn't easy to make a good browser and it's very time consuming, but if you don't distinguish yourself from the competition, you'll certainly have a problem making profits(no idea how they do that with a free browser though) since people won't be particularly drawn to it.
Currently, it still has the reputation to be yet another chrome clone(I know it's more, but that's the general opinion I see from most new user coming here). Even though it's slowly getting away from that with every version, it will take time and in the mean time, it must be pretty hard to interest people in it with a good portion of user abandoning the browser because of the changes.
I assume they know better than me how these things work and that they didn't take the decision lightly, but I don't see how they'll manage to make profits by staying a minimalistic browser when chrome already has that reputation and is much more advertised than opera could possibly be.
