I remember opera features were wild. At some point they cached websites on their servers to load them faster, they had a builtin torrent client, they automatically created mobile versions of pages, probably more I'm not remembering

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There was also a built in webserver, email client, irc client. I was quite sad when they sold out and became yet another chrome clone. Vivadli carries on the spirit, but i've since switched to firefox purely because i dont want the web to be dominated by chromium.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They’ll never live down (to me at least) that they tried to charge money for a web browser.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean... so did Netscape.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

TIL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

how many hours a day do you use a browser?

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[–] lime@feddit.nu 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i'd definitely pay for the development of something i use that much. unfortunately i can't donate directly to development of firefox, otherwise i would have.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When the competitors are free and doing just as good a job?

Remember, we’re taking about the 90’s and Opera.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 3 days ago

opera was so much more than just a browser. it's the closest thing to the old idea of "internet suites" that netscape and later mozilla tried to create, that we ever got.