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Re: OT: Opera Think of Everything (Was: Spot The Typo)

  • Subject: Re: OT: Opera Think of Everything (Was: Spot The Typo)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:25:00 +0000
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__/ [Toby Inkster] on Tuesday 07 February 2006 09:00 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> I'm happy enough with 8.5, which I only ever launch to test compatibility.
>> Giving up the existing Firefox extensions would be hard.
> 
> I bet that 80% of your Firefox extensions are available in Opera out of
> the box.


80% is probably a gross over-estimation. Have you looked at the number of
Firefox plugins (themes and extensions) recently? The release rate has been
explosive and I have about a dozen active extensions at the moment.


>> I can't recall if you regularly use Opera or Firefox for all your
>> browsing
> 
> If I didn't use Opera, why would I be so excitied now?! I must go change
> into a clean pair of underwear.


I thought you were using (the) two in parallel. You know, like Els does...


> Widgets will catch on. They are cool as hell!


I wonder if they are anything like Jaguar/Tiger's widgets. I have not
actually read the articles on Opera widgets. I only read the titles and
summary.


__/ [Els] on Tuesday 07 February 2006 09:18 \__

> I must admit that I don't really know what widgets are, but I can
> assure you that if they are cool as hell, they're not very cool at
> all... ;-)


Don't worry. They think of everything.

Roy

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