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Basically Opera 12 or pre-Chromium Opera in general..

- Obvious things like encryption support, tabs, full cookie options, (customizable) "smart" address bar, speed dial, history, favourites, optional synchronization, extension support, spell check...

- heavily customizable UI,

- plenty of other customization through settings or Opera's neatly done opera:config,

- easily togglable (is that a word?) side panel with M2-style lightweight E-mail client, notes, history, page info, and whatnot,

- detailed page loading (speed, domains, amount of transferred data) and file download information (what, where from/to, when, how much),

- in-built "plugin-on-demand" and noscript,

- Dragonfly (I just can't seem to get used to Chromium's developer tools),

- easy image properties ( http://puu.sh/jEqjh/ab197d996e.png ),

- mouse gestures and switching between tabs with right-click + mouse wheel up/down or something similarly effortless

- tab stacking,

- and last but not least: if you want to make money off me, instead of sneakily tracing where I go and what I do and partnering with Google, ask me for it on first start and maybe with a discreet "donate/subscribe" button on the start page / speed dial.

...

Things that would be just nice:

- tab sandboxing

- their own rendering engine

- Unite

- One process per browser, not tab

- "reading mode" as seen on WP IE

...

I guess I want more of a browsing bundle, heh.

I would second the wish for a return of Opera Unite. I thought their vision for what Unite could be was incredible and I was really sad to see it go.

Yep, same. I considered that to be a rather revolutionary feature. Even if it was standalone I would use it as I haven't seen anything similar yet.

Opera Unite would be a killer app with support for CloudFlare, so the pages would remain online when our computers were off, and auto sync of everything when the computer comes back online.

Also, with something like wordpress with themes and all the other silly things that made wordpress popular.

Chromium developer tools are very good, and the smartphone preview functionality is killer, but for really obscure JavaScript issues only the Dragonfly error messages made sense. They were clear an to the point every single time.

I remember the JavaScript that ran in Kestrel bug free, would run everywhere bug free.

Now, about mouse gestures and switching between tabs with right -click + mouse wheel, you can do that just now with Vivaldi. It only needs synchronization and supporting extension icons to replace Chrome in my computers.

Yeah, I use Vivaldi as my tertiary browser (or rather sometimes Vivaldi, sometimes Pale Moon, sometimes SeaMonkey) and I'm keeping close eye on it. It's still running on top of Google's code though, isn't it? :/

As for Dragonfly, it has "Resources". Chromium developer tools have "Sources", but I can't even tell if those things from Dragonfly's Resources are there. Mobile preview isn't very important for me as I use these tools for analysis and data extraction instead of actually developing, heh.

Anyway, a lot of the features that are critical for me are still missing and even if that was just the image properties windows, I won't uninstall O12. But Vivaldi is also missing (from those things I listed) other than Dragonfly also loading feedback, proper config (though it has vivaldi:flags, which seems to have extended from the last time I was there), structured history, the window bar doesn't say the page title, downloads are basic, ... all maybe tiny details to some, but they're huge quality of life improvements for me daily.

> tab sandboxing

Cookieplux[1] is a plugin I made for Firefox, It is still waiting for approval from Moziall. But I have released the source. So you can build it yourself.

[1] http://firstglitch.com/cookieplux/cookieplux-firfox-plugin-f...

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