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.
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.
opera was the fastest of the bunch.
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.
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