Re:How Opera makes money
by lallysingh on Friday May 22, 2009 @10:25AM
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Indeed, I've tried opera a few times. Usually no performance or core web-browsing improvements I can see over the stock one I use (firefox/chrome/safari, depending on platform). But there's plenty of ugly and clunky that goes with it, that quickly loses my interest.
I disagree with your point about the performance issues.
I've had increasing issues with Flash video stuttering (audio stays fine, but video freezes momentarily until it "catches up") on Firefox.
I recently switched to Opera and these issues have completely disappeared.
I find it practical, personally. I've always used WinXP with the Win98 'classic' theme, and Opera with the Opera6 theme. Not particularly beautiful but very responsive and easy to navigate.
Re:How Opera makes money
by access_denied on Friday May 22, 2009 @11:09AM
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That's my experience too, except that I continue to use it. I like the fact I can configure the toolbars and the toolbar layout 100%.
The default skin is kind of ugly. I used Christian Kreb's m 7 for a while, which is very clean, and lately I've been using c00.
m 7: http://my.cn.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=45... (doesn't seem to be on the US site anymore, no idea why)
c00: http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=8692
I like Opera as a company but their desktop UI has always had a clunky, KDE-like feel to it. It's configurable enough that you can change it quite radically but they start with lots of stuff turned on.