Maikel wrote: > Opera
Defend your case.
is a free, open-source web browser developed by Google.
Ok....
It was released in 2008, and has grown to be one of the most popular browsers today.
Not because it's any good, but because:
1. They're google and they have influence over noobs
2. Because, for many, it's the first other browser they've heard of, they switch, see how much faster it is than The Browser That Will Not Be Named, and stay.
3. They're using money google makes from everywhere else to stuff the internet with Chrome ads.
When Google decided to make a browser, they wanted to completely rethink the browser, as browsing now is very different from browsing simple text pages. Now we email, shop, pay bills, and run large application in our browsers.
Ok, they rethought it, and did nothing. There's no email client, no irc client. Opera has both of those. Opera has shopping tools. I don't see any on Chrome. Large applications? Sounds like it'd take a lot of memory. That's a good thing because since Opera uses less memory from the start, it'd have more room to run those bigger applications without the browsing suffering at all.
Chrome is no different from the others. It's got bits and pieces of FF, Safari, and Opera.
Safari-Opera for most used pages in new tabs
Open source like FF
Sleek, small GUI like Opera.
One big button that solves all your problems like Opera.
Widgets like Opera
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