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Try it out. it has a nice feature-set that is mostly on par with the other browsers. here's a glory screen shot I just took: http://i.imgur.com/NpzUWWB.png (I'm ok with people knowing my home directory path)

In the mobile world they offer access to their compressing proxy built-in, similar to http://www.khelekore.org/rabbit/ so that you can save your OTA bits. I haven't found any other mobile browser that allows you to push your web connection through a proxy like that.

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Like Chrome? https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/data-compre...

Are you comparing a mobile browser with a desktop browser?

Note that Opera’s “Off-Road mode” in present in Opera for Desktop as well; it’s not a mobile-only feature. Here’s a screenshot that shows how to enable it: http://i.imgur.com/rvGkQrI.png

> In the mobile world they offer access to their compressing proxy built-in

Off-Road mode in present in Opera for Desktop as well. Here’s a screenshot that shows how to enable it: http://i.imgur.com/rvGkQrI.png

Chrome for Android and iOS optionally does this, now. [1]

[1] https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/data-compre...

Exciting. I'll be sure to check that out!

Note that Opera’s “Off-Road mode” in present in Opera for Desktop as well, so it’s not a mobile-only feature. Here’s a screenshot that shows how to enable it: http://i.imgur.com/rvGkQrI.png

The things I learn here... many thanks! :)

That screen shot shows the pre-Blink/Chromium version of Opera. The new versions are quite different, and are still lacking many of the features that older versions of Opera offered.

It is the current version for Linux. I can't speak for platforms I don't use :-(

That's perfectly understandable. The way they've defecated all over Linux users lately is quite disturbing.

I only brought it up because users on Windows and OS X who download more recent versions will be getting a very different, and unfortunately quite inferior, experience.

Harsh words. They are rewriting everything, surely it's better to focus on 90% of their user-base first?

You "glory" screenshot shows Opera 12, before the switch to Blink and the simplification on the UI. Most features shown are no longer available.

That's the current version for Linux. I can't speak for other OSes. Sorry.

I wouldn't call that a "glory" screenshot. It looks rather messy. :-)

Perhaps "bell and whistle" would be better? I was trying to illustrate many of the features.

I use Opera Mini on a Nokia dumbphone and the proxy is amazing.

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