I don't see the need for the browser to be open source. I love supporting open source projects as much as the next guy, and believe deeply in the philosophy, but as excellent a browser as opera is, I can live with one or two programs not being such. Besides, what would anyone here who is not a specifically a developer want to do with the source code anyway, modify the browser?
You can definitely chalk me up on the list of people who love it, i've been using it for a long time. I never liked Firefox much. One, I loved Netscape and used it religiously back when it was in existence. I always felt that while everyone had some extreme affection for the extensions system, the browser always seemed a little slower and clunky in comparison to Netscape.
I'm not into a bunch of extras, add-ons, etc., just ad-blocking, which Opera's system always seemed to be more efficient for the such anyway.
Overall, it's clearly faster on my system too (launch time to surfing to site A, etc), but that's just my system.
It is, unless i'm mistaken, the only browser who's browsing engine, Presto, is truly 100% W3C compliant too is it not? Also a notable trait
--Q
You can definitely chalk me up on the list of people who love it, i've been using it for a long time. I never liked Firefox much. One, I loved Netscape and used it religiously back when it was in existence. I always felt that while everyone had some extreme affection for the extensions system, the browser always seemed a little slower and clunky in comparison to Netscape.
I'm not into a bunch of extras, add-ons, etc., just ad-blocking, which Opera's system always seemed to be more efficient for the such anyway.
Overall, it's clearly faster on my system too (launch time to surfing to site A, etc), but that's just my system.
It is, unless i'm mistaken, the only browser who's browsing engine, Presto, is truly 100% W3C compliant too is it not? Also a notable trait
--Q