With Maxthon Cloud, it's hard to tell. The question was asked, but I went through several pages and didn't see it answered. Going through that place I wonder if the devs even know what they're going to do with the browser. It was available in Maxthon 3, but was pretty weak.
I love Firefox's extensions, interface, and bookmarks manager. But everytime I find myself going to Chrome even though I hate its interface and bookmarks/download manager simply because it is super fast and snappy when loading webpages
I've always used Chrome from the beginning. Lately I have to admit the number of websites that don't play well with Chrome seems to have increased rather than the opposite which is worrisome. Chrome's last update was a disaster on my computer, but if I ever change browser it'll be for IE.
Interesting you say that. On Chrome Beta 24 (Why hasn't this thing updated yet?) I'm getting websites that are asking me if I want to translate websites I'm visiting from one language to another. CNET for example is supposedly in Simplified Han Chinese and Chrome is helpfully asking if I'd like it to be translated to English
Regarding Sleipnir, I was mistaken about the way that search shortcuts work. You can not set up search shortcuts to work from the address bar. It seems you can do this in Chrome but not in Sleipnir. So I guess Sleipnir no longer gets my vote. Edit: The search shortcuts work fine when used in the search box, just not the address bar, so I will continue to Sleipnir. The search box has been one thing I never use in browsers - time to start using it now. I did use Google toolbar very briefly when it was first released. I found the idea of a search toolbar to be really neat. After a few days I came to the conclusion it was better to have the screen space occupied by the toolbar for browsing, so I uninstalled it and have never used it since then, even on computers with it installed.
I am still surprised by the number of Opera users here. Given world market shares, Opera shouldn't be anywhere near Firefox or Chrome.....
I'm running the 64-bit version of IE9 on Win7x64 and I haven't found anything of consequence that I don't like. It runs noticeably faster than the default 32-bit version and it is able to access (and work with) all of my favorites. Cruise
Opera's Low World Market Share is greatly affected by its Low Popularity when it comes to the 'Average Joe'. When it comes to the Wilders members, things become more Favorable for Opera, as the 'Advanced/Experienced Users' make the difference.
I don't know. Opera doesn't lack any major features (extension support aside), is pretty stable, standards compliant and does the job well. It's interface is not bad at all. There's no reason why the average joe should not like this browser. That's why it always strikes me as odd that Opera always has a better following among a) Enthusiast forums b) Standards-compliant web developers and c) Generally savvy internet users.
Opera is stronger on the mobile arena: Opera Mini is the world's most popular mobile browser according to some sources. The other variants of Opera face strong competition and don't have the same support of millionaire publicity campaigns that Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have. I personally prefer Opera and its mobile variants over all other alternatives for a number of (small) reasons, but Opera is far from perfect and has lots of room for improvements.
The integrated email client within opera is truly wonderful and i dont know why other browsers do not utilise this as this is what makes opera stand out slightly.
Opera has improved greatly over the past couple of years. Its extensions actually work now & the dodgy built in things like 'Widgets' have finally disappeared. My guess as to its popularity is that it is really the only officially supported x64 browser (for Windows) other than IE. It is also highly customisable & fast. It has its quirks, bugs & gremlins of course, but nothing's perfect.
-Configuration is much more complicated (compared with the ones of IE & FF). When it comes to Tools>Options, Average Users prefer something Simpler (i.e. Faster/Easier to Configure). -Like with Chrome, there are still Websites that canNot be properly displayed. Maybe, it is the way these Websites are Designed... However, for the Average User, this makes No difference. He tries Opera and/or Chrome and sees problems. Then, he goes back to IE and FF and sees No problems.
I use Firefox and Chrome as my main Browsers. Registry cleaners like Auslogic Free Registry Cleaner eliminates leftover registry keys and other clutter .
I tried opera so many times and it's just the UI I can't get used to. Also last time that I tried it, 64 bit version was really buggy and had poor user support.
