i’d definitely pay for the development of something i use that much. unfortunately i can’t donate directly to development of firefox, otherwise i would have.
opera was so much more than just a browser. it’s the closest thing to the old idea of “internet suites” that netscape and later mozilla tried to create, that we ever got.
I remember opera features were wild. At some point they cached websites on their servers to load them faster, they had a builtin torrent client, they automatically created mobile versions of pages, probably more I’m not remembering
There was also a built in webserver, email client, irc client. I was quite sad when they sold out and became yet another chrome clone. Vivadli carries on the spirit, but i’ve since switched to firefox purely because i dont want the web to be dominated by chromium.
opera was the fastest of the bunch.
They’ll never live down (to me at least) that they tried to charge money for a web browser.
how many hours a day do you use a browser?
8+
i’d definitely pay for the development of something i use that much. unfortunately i can’t donate directly to development of firefox, otherwise i would have.
When the competitors are free and doing just as good a job?
Remember, we’re taking about the 90’s and Opera.
opera was so much more than just a browser. it’s the closest thing to the old idea of “internet suites” that netscape and later mozilla tried to create, that we ever got.
I mean… so did Netscape.
TIL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator
I remember opera features were wild. At some point they cached websites on their servers to load them faster, they had a builtin torrent client, they automatically created mobile versions of pages, probably more I’m not remembering
There was also a built in webserver, email client, irc client. I was quite sad when they sold out and became yet another chrome clone. Vivadli carries on the spirit, but i’ve since switched to firefox purely because i dont want the web to be dominated by chromium.