graudeejs said:
Wow, that's an interesting statement.
I don't know any other bowser where you can configure key bindings as much as with opera.
What exactly you can't configure?
P.S.
Have you seen this?
http://my.opera.com/Blazeix/blog/vimperator-for-opera
I sure have
I've been an Opera user on-and-off for many years, and for most of those years I used Blazeix's code to provide Vimperator-like behavior for Opera; I even incorporated some of his code (specifically, the JS for hinting) into my own code for Emacs/Conkeror-like behavior.
The problem (and again, this is _fault_ or flaw in Opera), as Blazeix himself points out, is not so much that you can't rebind keys in Opera, it's that Opera is not modal (important for Vim), nor does it have anything that resembles a modeline or echo area (very important for Emacs). All you have, in fact, is a URL bar.
The limitations of the Opera interface become immediately apparent as soon as you consider something as simple as command/URL completion. Opera has auto-completion for URLs and site names stored in history/bookmarks, but when you are presented with several matches for a particular term, you cannot <TAB> complete to the desired match; instead, you have to resort to the rather cumbersome (for Emacs and Vi users, at least) use of the up and down arrows.
Speaking of completion, hinting seems to be limited to numbers. For instance, if you were on IMDB and you hit "f" to invoke hint numbers, you could, under Vimperator or Conkeror, type imdb to narrow the available selections to only links containing the letters "imdb", or you could narrow it down even further if you were only looking for a link to IMDB Pro by typing "pro." In Opera, however, you must type the corresponding number code from the total list of links -- though this could be a limitation of Blazeix's code, I suppose... I'm certainly no expert when it comes to Javascript.
Another limitation -- and this is a big one -- is that Opera does not provide either Vi- or Emacs-like editing for text fields. For instance, in Emacs M-b = backward-word ("Move backward until encountering the beginning of a word"), whereas in Opera there is no corresponding function that you could even bind a key sequence to. This wouldn't necessarily be a big deal, except that I'm also not aware of there being a way that one might call or embed an external editor for text fields.
I could go on... and on, but I think these examples amply illustrate what I'm trying to get at.
Again, though, I'm not asserting that Opera is a lousy browser because of these things, just that I personally find its interface somewhat/frustrating as someone who is a heavy user of Emacs (and before that, Vim). Near as I can tell, Opera does as good a job as any other web-browser developer in delivering an intuitive, relatively easy-to-use GUI interface, and also includes a bevy of handy keyboard shortcuts for more advanced users. Opera isn't aimed at the sorts of users who are into Conkeror, Vimperator, Uzbl, etc. so I'm not about to fault them on the comparison.
