“Opera is no longer important player on browser market”
If Opera is not important now, then whenever was it important?

Opera is more important now that ever, espescially on embedded and mobile. Not that they hold marketshare comparable to Firefox.

“heir decision to ignore and cut off extensions killed this browser and made it into what it is now – minor player without any real possibility od coming back”
And why should Opera do as everybody else? I love the fact that Opera guys tries to have a “power browser” that have good stuff right out of the box. I’d had to install thousand plugins to get a FF up to par with what I use with Opera.

Now I’m not bashing Firefox, the flexibility that Firefox offers because of extensions is not to be understated. However, it’s not the only model a browser can have and it also have weaknessess. It’s a matter of taste. Personally I don’t like to fiddle to much with stuff, but I at the same time want some features. Because of that Opera is great for me. :)

I do definetely agree with the spell-checker though. The current one is a joke.

“their new webdev tools are probably web based, being completly useless this way, another shot in the foot”
I dobut it. This is exactly one of the things that have been the old dev tools failings wich Opera openely admits aren’t very good, so my guess is that they’ll be proper.

Iron84: One of the reason Opera have so much trouble with many sites is that they downright refuse to implement non-standard stuff. (With some exceptions.) However, since a lot of important webapps do use non-standard stuff Opera automaticly fixes these sites to conform to standards on the fly.

http://dragonfly.opera.com

btw, i must be lucky, i don’t have any particular problem with opera, windows live spaces (and microsoft sites in general) and the new yahoo webmail (which is coded around firefox bugs, and amazingly the opera team makes it somewhat work..)

btw 1% marketshare means that most pages will never ever be tested against opera = opera will not work there. it is a bit steep price that opera users have to pay for low market share.

IE8 brings web slices and activities? extension created!

*generic browser” brings “generic feature that ff doesn’t have”? extensions created! (and a hell of a lot, i must say, since firefox doesn’t implement anything by himself)

firefox is a sandbox in which you have to put dozens of extensions to bring to parity with opera, but then firefox starts to be a resource hog. I prefer something coded by the same people, not by some random dude somewhere in the world, even if it doesn’t have even 1% of market share.

ff is ff just because of the marketing, and the ff zealots out there.

there is no such possibility if you want to implement FF functionality into opera.

it’s like google, but in all your history of browsing, if this is not useful, then I don’t know what it is.
let’s say you looked a page about cats, and then after a week you need it. now, just type “cat” in address bar and you have your page about cats, without asking google about all cats websites in the world.

and about the matching you suggest, sure, it would be cool, but it’s not a very light thing to do, unless you suppose that all users have a powerfull pc, which it’s not the case. but I suppose that in some time a firefox enthusiast will make an extension that copy the full history search, like it happend with the speed dial, and a fuckton of other things.

go to my.opera.com/desktopteam in both ff3 and opera – type ‘desktopteam’ into the bar – ff3 will find it, opera – not. opera way is simply not usefull compared to ff3 one.

yes, opera indexes whole pages (is it really that usefull? google does the same), but a) indexes whole words only – it will find ‘wind’ in ‘windy’ but will return no results for ‘ind’. b) ignores urls and titles for webpages. ergo – it is mostly useless gimmick, that is (as always with opera) very close to being good, but still so far away.

are you fucking KIDDING? opera searches ALL THE THINGS you visit and you call it weak? ff as always copies what opera do, but in a worse worse way…bah..