gestures!
Still the reason that 20+ years later the second thing I install on any browser is a gestures extension (the first one is always uBlock Origin, obviously).
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Damage@feddit.it 5 weeks agoOpera was so good. Disable images, force custom CSS, gestures! Stuff no one else had at the time.
wfh@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
And the ability to switch browser engines on the fly. That was a great feature.
philpo@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
And it has some options to interpret data following strict W3C standards. Which was incredibly helpful when learning, as it encouraged me (and a lot of others) to don’t go down the IE/Netscape and later Chrome “specialities” road. (Yes,I am that old…I still remember MS fucking FrontPage)
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I remember that! Standards mode vs compatibility mode. That was a great feature, too. Opera was unique.
Damage@feddit.it 5 weeks ago
User agent spoofing, tabs back when nobody had them, sidebar…