Comments on: More reaction from Opera CEO on Google Chrome

By: randy

randy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:48:40 +0000

i have had ie, mozilla, safari, opera and google chrome. OPERA WAS BY FAR THE BEST!!!! chrome was kinda tied with safari for 3rd place , mozilla was 2nd and ie was last.! mozilla was good untill its started to give me alot of prpblems.! and i mean alot. once firefox crashed i tried all the other ones, after 2 weeks i choose opera!!! it is a lot faster, has a good pop up blocker, good saftey features, and it was very customizable, such as widgets, email management, tabs, speed dail, and password manegement and security!!! its not that the others werent good it was just that opera was WAY BETTER!!!! so if ur still looking for an internet browswer or u have mozilla, dump that **** and choose opera!!!! its great!!

-randy

By: Ian Samson

Ian Samson — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:00:58 +0000

No, Rolf, you are not. I use Chrome, Firefox, SeaMonkey, Safari, IE7, Netscape, Opera, um…. have to think now the list is almost endless, everyone trying to outdo everyone else by saying their browser is better than xyz’s. I do enjoy Google Chrome but I cannot use it for my banking transactions yet because the banks are not set up for it yet, but for most other things it’s fine. Firefox 3 is still the fastest that I know of. IE7 is full of its usual **** so I rarely use that, prefer the IE plug-in for Firefox when accessing Microsoft’s websites. So stick to the browser you like most and don’t feel lonely any longer about being the only one in the universe who uses multiple browsers. You are not alone.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:49:59 +0000

Am I the only one in the universe who uses multiple browsers? Chrome has a speedy start, but I have problems with some pages (esp. java). So chrome is for quick access.

Opera is for running longer events. It boots slower, but I use the bookmark-sync to keep what I want on all my different work stations. I’m also addicted to the speed dial and the mouse gestures. Yes they all exist on firefox as plugin, but those plugins makes my firefox 3 crash every bleepin second.

My only use of firfox now, is on my mac where I havent found out how to set opera as standard, so firefox pops open every time i click a link in another program.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:39:29 +0000

Opera is a niche product focused to a different user than Chrome. It has features hard to learn with poor documentation for regular consumers that will not be found in IE, FF, Safari nor Chrome in a long time, currently it is not mass market oriented as the others.
It is true that Opera receives good money from Google, but the substantial income comes from other products, so, losing its support would hurt but would not be a big deal. I see Opera desktop as a promotional tool, where Opera AG invests instead of big adds.
Who really have problems is Firefox because belongs to the same Church than Chrome, it is as well focused to the mass marked, it has the same stupid friendly type of interface, its revenue depends of Google and even has the same programmers…

By: film fan

film fan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:24:45 +0000

there are so many advantages and features with Chrome, such as it’s speed, for example; now if only they would take care it’s quirky cookie management…

By: Sammy

Sammy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:32:29 +0000

I have a constant problem with Chrome freezing up. Not just one tab…the entire thing.
Play lists and videos on sites such as Gaia Online or MySpace show up funny or in a completely different place than they should be.

Other than that…Chrome poses no problems to me, though I have heard complaints of Chrome users now only being able to use Google search while on Chrome, not on Firefox or IE.

By: sandyman

sandyman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:56:02 +0000

I think that chrome could be bad news for Firefox and even more so for Opera for one simple reason. Funding. If Google decides to stop paying Opera to use Google as the default search engine it’s quite likely that Opera would have to revert to being paid for. How many people will continue to use it under those circumstances? With a market share of < 1% Opera cannot afford to lose users. Firefox would e hit as well, but, being open source work would continue, perhaps not as rapidly and it would remain free.

By: Stifu

Stifu — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:29:23 +0000

I’m not sure why my comment has been awaiting moderation for 5 days while people could keep replying (same thing happened in another article…), so I’ll repost it just in case:

“tzzz: I use Opera for web development testing, and it’s not that I don’t like it, but it’s just not my favorite. Being interested in browsers and web development in general, I don’t think it’s so weird that I’m on an Opera site. Look around, not all visitors are Opera users.”

And Ian, you mean “Chacun ses goûts”. :p

By: wellofsouls

wellofsouls — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:18:51 +0000

well I doubt Opera is concerned with the advent of Chrome, Opera has kept its own niche market for 14 years, and nothing can really change that much.

however it’s really wrong to say Chrome is copying Opera’s Speed Dial, guess Jon von Tetzchner hasn’t really tried Chrome himself. Chrome’s New Tab Page is more like Opera’s top 10 page in Start Bar than Speed Dial. Chrome’s New Tab Page and Opera’s Speed Dial are really more different than the difference between History and Bookmark, they are completely different things, except the thumbnails.

By: clive

clive — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:04:14 +0000

I have Firefox and Opera both very good, although I have had some freezing issues with 9.50 on Windows 2000 sp4. The sad thing about Chrome is that unlike Opera and FF they do not support Win2k. I can’t see why that’s so difficult when the others do (excluding MS).

By: Ian Samson

Ian Samson — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:15:22 +0000

using Safari 525.13 on Mac OS X

Really? Perhaps there is something wrong with the coding of the server that sees Google Chrome as Safari on a Mac. It certainly is not that at all. It is Google Chrome on Vista Business 32.

By: Ian Samson

Ian Samson — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:12:21 +0000

Stifu: FYI, I was using Opera on my desktop Windows 2000 machine because it was open at the time and I was working on that machine. Now I am replying using Google Chrome on Vista Business 32. Since this is subjective, everyone’s opinion and preferences WILL differ because everyone has their own favourite and all machines differ in processing capabilities and speed. We will never arrive at a consensus where everyone agrees. Chacin a sin gout!

By: Stifu

Stifu — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:05:48 +0000

tzzz: I use Opera for web development testing, and it’s not that I don’t like it, but it’s just not my favorite. Being interested in browsers and web development in general, I don’t think it’s so weird that I’m on an Opera site. Look around, not all visitors are Opera users.

By: Chromes Great

Chromes Great — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:26:21 +0000

I am using Chrome right know and I love it. It is fast, and doesn’t freeze when I have 20 tabs open, like in Firefox and Opera. The interface is incredible simple to use and very effective.

By: tzzz

tzzz — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:14:46 +0000

@Stifu: Why are you so busy posting in an Opera blog if you neither use nor like it?

@ANWAR SHAIKH: The latest Mozilla JS engine beats everything else AFAIK.