Why I use Opera
Monday, 17. December 2007, 14:40:23
This is my new blog. Before going anywhere let me introduce myself briefly.
I am a student in Montreal, Canada. I decided to make this blog to share some ideas about Opera with all of you who can read English.
To date, Opera is not the most popular desktop browser in Japan, even though they sell literally tons of Nintendo Wii and cell phones that run Opera Mini. Yet, the user group there is known to be very skilled and equipped with full of passion for Opera.
It is pretty unfortunate that most of you can't read Japanese, just like I can't read Russian. (Actually I speak a bit of German, Spanish and French but that's another thing). I'm quite curious to get some feedback from you on the ideas I will scratch down in this blog. They should be mainly about customizing Opera. Some are my own opinion, some are things I am inspired by the Japanese Opera blogsphere. Anyway I started it today on a whim, I will see how it goes. What I'm certain is that I will not write this with the best frequency all the time, but I am always looking for things to write in here and FEEDBACKS ARE WELCOME!
Oh, last thing, my id "edvakf" doesn't mean anything. I used it many many years ago just because I liked the sound.
To start I write why I use Opera.
I was a Firefox user about half a year ago. Some add-ons I was using with Firefox were really nifty and I didn't even think I could live without them. One problem was my PC at that time was quite an antique one, so I didn't want to push him hard. Firefox was sometimes eating more than half of his RAM. Then I was recommended to use Opera and I did (it's free anyway, and it worked on Xubuntu).
I was impreassed by its speed, the look, the fact that most of my must-have Firefox add-ons' functions were alread there for me to use by default, and most importantly, the keyboard was fully customizable!
I'm a lazy boy. When I browse, I don't want to use a mouse, I don't want to use two hands, I don't want to move my hand from the home position... That's how I'm lazy. So I customized Opera so that I can browse using only my right hand. Now I sometimes browse hours and hours almost with one hand, and with minimum motion.
Two month ago, I bought a macBook Pro with 2GB RAM. I don't worry too much about the speed loss and using up memory by using Firefox. But I haven't installed it on here. I don't know how it is now. I used Mozilla Prism once, it was damn slow. I think I keep loving Opera for a few more years.
I am a student in Montreal, Canada. I decided to make this blog to share some ideas about Opera with all of you who can read English.
To date, Opera is not the most popular desktop browser in Japan, even though they sell literally tons of Nintendo Wii and cell phones that run Opera Mini. Yet, the user group there is known to be very skilled and equipped with full of passion for Opera.
It is pretty unfortunate that most of you can't read Japanese, just like I can't read Russian. (Actually I speak a bit of German, Spanish and French but that's another thing). I'm quite curious to get some feedback from you on the ideas I will scratch down in this blog. They should be mainly about customizing Opera. Some are my own opinion, some are things I am inspired by the Japanese Opera blogsphere. Anyway I started it today on a whim, I will see how it goes. What I'm certain is that I will not write this with the best frequency all the time, but I am always looking for things to write in here and FEEDBACKS ARE WELCOME!
Oh, last thing, my id "edvakf" doesn't mean anything. I used it many many years ago just because I liked the sound.
To start I write why I use Opera.
I was a Firefox user about half a year ago. Some add-ons I was using with Firefox were really nifty and I didn't even think I could live without them. One problem was my PC at that time was quite an antique one, so I didn't want to push him hard. Firefox was sometimes eating more than half of his RAM. Then I was recommended to use Opera and I did (it's free anyway, and it worked on Xubuntu).
I was impreassed by its speed, the look, the fact that most of my must-have Firefox add-ons' functions were alread there for me to use by default, and most importantly, the keyboard was fully customizable!
I'm a lazy boy. When I browse, I don't want to use a mouse, I don't want to use two hands, I don't want to move my hand from the home position... That's how I'm lazy. So I customized Opera so that I can browse using only my right hand. Now I sometimes browse hours and hours almost with one hand, and with minimum motion.
Two month ago, I bought a macBook Pro with 2GB RAM. I don't worry too much about the speed loss and using up memory by using Firefox. But I haven't installed it on here. I don't know how it is now. I used Mozilla Prism once, it was damn slow. I think I keep loving Opera for a few more years.
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