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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: YoshiCaps on Sun, 23 October 2016, 18:44:43
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I saw this in an old necro form and did not want to dig it up so I have to ask- does anyone use opera on their phone or PC? I use opera mini on my old gs4 (and the thing eyenkos soc is like a snapdragon 600 and 2 gigs of ram is weak too) and it provides all the features I like. Here's the necro btw- https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=4460.msg63995#msg63995 (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=4460.msg63995#msg63995)
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I used to use it as my main browser probably around when that original thread was made, but then found Firefox (I think).
When I came back to Opera after a few years it was not how I remembered it. The worst change was the tab switching order - it seemed random.
Chrome and Firefox switch tabs as I'd expect, and I find myself unable to use any other browser that doesn't switch tabs in the same way.
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I still use Opera browser (Opera mini to be exact) on my Symbian phone (Nokia Pureview 808 with 'Belle SP2', a megapixel beast with 41 megapixel and shoot photos and videos quicker with very easy-to-reach configurations than most of the modern smartphones I played with).
Be frank the design of Opera mini has all the basic features offered in a very handy way with human-factor considerations.
On Linux & Windows: Firefox, because it offers syncing and many extensions.
On iOS of iPad: switching between Opera Coast, and Safari, and still wanting to try Firefox, but I'm super used to the previous 2.
On my Windows Phone 8.1: I'm never used to any of the browsers on WP8.1, be it Opera mini, UCBrowser, Internet Explorer (and perhaps it's not in such a one-hand thumb-operable style like those older pocketable phones like my Nokia 808 or the current iPhone 7)
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Don't use it but have thought about it quite a bit due to its native VPN offering.
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Opera mini sometimes if I'm on a device that supports it but for desktop I can't get away from Chrome/FF, Opera is just too little share to be of mind for web dev. It also just never got keyboard shortcuts right and I always fell back to Chrome/FF.