Opera Strikes Again
November 1st, 2007 (11:00am) Mike Gunderloy 2 CommentsTweet This
You have to admire Opera. They consistently run a distant fourth in browser market share, yet they consistently release new versions with interesting features. Case in point: the new Opera Link feature of the now-in-beta Opera 9.5. This feature allows you – with the support of a free Opera account – to synchronize bookmarks and other customizations between multiple copies of Opera running on different devices.
Yes, there are solutions out there to do this with other browsers, ranging from Google Bookmarks to Foxmarks to BookmarkSync. The nice thing about Opera Link is that it’s integrated into the UI, and it works from both the desktop and mobile phone versions of Opera – so your bookmarks travel with you, a distinct bonus for web workers. If you’ve moved to the iPhone you already have bookmark sync with Safari, but those of you on other phones will find Opera Link a potentially less expensive way to make those saved-up bookmarks portable.
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Yes ! Opera is really good, but Firefox’s extension is cooler :). I really need them ^^!. So my main browser is firefox. I’m amazed with Opera’s speed and memory usage :)
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And this new Opera browser is EXTREMELY fast. I upgraded from the last version and now every page snaps onto the screen. I’ve never seen such an instant difference.
You also need to remember that work on Opera was already three times faster than IE6 and twice as fast as FF or IE7.
There are many jobs where OPera’s speed is critical if you want to get the work done. I now use it more than FF which is more an app than a browser. IE is only for checking what clients might want – as if we really care ;-)