Opera will use Blink
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I ended up making the switch to Chrome when Opera 12 came out and was too buggy for my taste (it was the last straw). It took a while to make Chrome feel Opera-ish, but I still miss Opera from time to time, you know, because of the little things.
One thing I wish Chrome had is the ability to select hyperlinks. Opera would let you click and hold the mouse cursor anywhere on a hyperlinked text and select it. If you try the same in Chrome, it will try to drag & drop the link instead of starting a selection. In fact, sometimes it gets really tricky to try to select hyperlinked text.
Best line of that blog post :)
All of his albums are good or better, almost all the albums sold well – and the more recent ones like You Are the Quarry are superb. Oh, and he's great to see live solo.
How about almost any rock band reforming? A great idea on paper and almost always a terrible idea. Smashing Pumpkins?
(How about the Euro if you want a good example?)
I guess those nostalgic for the 90s shall have to rely on Firefox, inheritor of Netscape's mantle.
Even to this day no other browser can match it, though Chrome/ium with a Vim plugin comes close.
For example, I have all my tabs on the left side with thumbnails. Since my screen is widescreen, having the tabs on the left makes a lot more sense than on top.
I also use the built-in Mail client as I really hate going to web pages to check my mail when my browser can aggregate multiple accounts into a single interface and notify me when I get email on any account.
I hope the new Opera supports the same type of customizable UI and mail client or I'll be stuck on 12.15 forever.
And most people I talk to feel the same way (who use opera).
Opera doesn't even have a concept of marks. Never mind marks across browser windows, tabs, or even pages you don't have open. Also, I love the minimalistic interface: you only see a small status bar, and (optionally) a tab bar. You can even hide everything. You can't do that with Opera (at all.)
FF has the best plugin system, there are some FF plugins like Ant (flash downloader) that have no counterpart on Chrome or Opera, and of course Firebug for web dev.
I tend to use FF, Chrome, and Chromium for web development, and Opera for browsing, and test on all four.
I wonder what chrome for iOS is going to use (given that it's more just a wrapper around UIWebView with some chrome like features).
for browsers, that's the biggest difference (after quality of product)
Google, the monetization is selling the user. So you get features like no-referrer removed (3 or 4 times) from the chromium project by google commits.
if opera also monetize by selling the user, it will have no chance. at all. On the other hand, selling software or showing ads are also not viable. So i'm very curious to what they are going to do.
btw, what is the current business model of opera to begin with?! do they live only on licensing opera mobile for phone manufacturers?
Edit: the answer for the question at the end is Yes. http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2011/01/03/how-does-ope...
Do you have a source for that? I'd like to read more about it!
from top of my mind, the command line option. the chorme:network-setting(sic) thing. the compile option flag
also, everytime i mention it people ask for source (on this forum where hardly there's time for any discussion!) and once i collected all the commits, but it's on my hell-banned account @gcb. feel free to dig that comment out if you like.
“Our ambition is to contribute Opera’s browser engine expertise to WebKit, ranging from the implementation of new web standards to improvements in existing code.”
“Our ambition is to contribute Opera’s browser engine expertise to Gecko, ranging from the implementation of new web standards to improvements in existing code.”
Funny how adaptable these are. If you can't decide, just abstract away.
Certainly Opera chose Chromium/V8/Blink rather than whatever other alternatives were available, and I can't see that as a bad decision for them.
My understanding was one of the reasons Google forked as to rip out the webkit2 versions of those things, in favor of their own, which are fairly tightly tied to Chrome.
So either Opera is going to be more "chromey" or...they are going to reimplement those parts? Maybe they already have them (I am not that familiar with Opera these days)?