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Rumor: Facebook to buy Opera
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Because for the longest time, the things people got extensions to do in Firefox, Opera did as standard.
ThatObviousUser
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That's kind of like the "Why doesn't the iPhone support third party apps?" position Apple fanboys took in 2007. It's not a complete indefensible position, but third parties can always do much more amazing things and fill so many other needs you don't even know about.
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I sort of agree, Unite was like their last hurrah and it went over like a wet fart. A shame because it had potential, but it was pretty much a proprietary thing in a time when web openness was becoming more apparent.
Yup, throughout my entire usage of Opera, I've only used three extentions, QR Code, Send to Phone, and imghove(you still owe me this andrex http://i.imgur.com/LLShC.gif).
The first two got deprecated really quick when Opera added the "open in chrome" function, since I have those setup properly on my chrome that's logged into my account.
Everything else has always been built in as options.
ThatObviousUser
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Oh yeah, image hover. I may actually have the programming chops to do that pretty quickly now.
The only extensions I have are Last Pass and NeoGAF Live Thread.
Warren Ellis
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god i hope it's not true, opera is the best browser available 
ThatObviousUser
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Hooray! I may stop using Opera now.
ThatObviousUser
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So uh anything you want it to do besides popping up a preview of links that link to an image?
That's pretty much all there is to it. The extension page details mentions a bunch of stuff about "Indirect image links are supported Facebook, DeviantArt, Google/Yahoo/Bing/Yandex images and sites running MediaWiki."
Not sure what that is, but I assume I've used it at one point or another.
It'd be awesome if it could somehow embed the image by clicking the link too, like on mobile gaf.
Despite the fact it'll blow up?
I'll take the rocket.
James Woods
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I don't get these addons and extensions thing. I used firefox for about seven years and switched to Chrome last month...
Jayayess1190
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Activate the last active tab
Activate the next tab
Activate the first ta opened from the current tab
ThatObviousUser
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ThatObviousUser
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For Copernicus.
It's probably missing some super obvious thing but I can get to that later... probably...
It's probably missing some super obvious thing but I can get to that later... probably...
acheron_xl
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I've always had a soft spot for Opera, even though I haven't regularly used it in years. My GF still does. Too bad it'll probably become some weird Facebook adjunct now.
Awesome Possum, i <3 u dood.
(any chance of getting an option for fullsize/fit to screen or preview?)
Why would you do that?
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Ah, that kinda sucks,. Opera is my browser of choice on Windows and Android, and has been that way for years. (Though for some reason, I always use Chrome in Windows. I still like Opera better.)
My favorite thing about Opera is that if there's a message/alert box in Javascript (like "Don't leave this page! Click OK to keep viewing our advertisements! OK/Cancel") then you can still close the tab or exit the browser, since Opera stopped using Windows native boxes.
My favorite thing about Opera is that if there's a message/alert box in Javascript (like "Don't leave this page! Click OK to keep viewing our advertisements! OK/Cancel") then you can still close the tab or exit the browser, since Opera stopped using Windows native boxes.
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Maybeh. We'll see. The jQuery plugin I'm using really isn't good at determining the optimal position for the hover image...
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