The what now? What did I miss?Muzer wrote:I still haven't quite brought myself to switching to Firefox due to the impending death of Opera.
Frankly if such a time came, I'd rather switch to Chrome.
Moderator: Dream17 Staff
The what now? What did I miss?Muzer wrote:I still haven't quite brought myself to switching to Firefox due to the impending death of Opera.
Well, they've already stated they're killing off Presto - but what many people don't know is that they're also killing off the old Opera as well.SupSuper wrote:The what now? What did I miss?Muzer wrote:I still haven't quite brought myself to switching to Firefox due to the impending death of Opera.
Frankly if such a time came, I'd rather switch to Chrome.
I only really got into it because it was faster and more functional than most browsers at the time, but now every website seems to be littered with vendor-specific stuff that gives it the screw, so I'm not surprised it came to this. Google in particular seems to love making their websites run like molasses on anything but Chrome. But Firefox is way too cultist for me, so I guess Chrome will be my only option.Muzer wrote:Well, they've already stated they're killing off Presto - but what many people don't know is that they're also killing off the old Opera as well.SupSuper wrote:The what now? What did I miss?Muzer wrote:I still haven't quite brought myself to switching to Firefox due to the impending death of Opera.
Frankly if such a time came, I'd rather switch to Chrome.
The new Opera is little more than a red Chromium skin - they're not just switching to WebKit, they're switching to Chromium. Where they've removed bookmarks for some reason, and added a very small number of half-arsed shadows of former Opera features.
IMHO there won't be any big enough USPs for people to continue to use the new Opera rather than using Chrome or Firefox. And even if they do miraculously manage to keep a large portion of their user base, Opera as we know it is still essentially dead.
For me, I used Opera because of the ease of customisability. Firefox has about the same level of customisability but much harder to access (requiring extensions to really expose much of it), and Chrome just lacks it completely. For me, switching to Chrome simply isn't an option. So, very reluctantly, switching to Firefox will be my only option.
Screw toolbars, I want my sidebars.Xinos wrote:I don't see why everybody here has so much against Chrome. Sure it didn't have any useful extensions at first, like Adblocker, but now that aspect of Chrome is easily as good as Firefox.
But the only thing I need from a browser now in terms of customization is a bookmark toolbar running parallel to the address bar, and they all have that. I just think it smooth.