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Nice try. "Thanks to gamergate", three women have been forced from their homes from threats that law enforcement officers found credible enough to suggest that. Trying to pretend that gamergate has done anything but abuse people defines you as - at best - an imbecile.

It causes you physical pain that few here buy into the "mysogyny and harrassment" narrative, doesn't it?

The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and ongoing user comment/forum censorship (in former free-speech strongholds such as 4chan and Reddit, no less) didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are Over" articles hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only damage those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.
The SVU episode . . . hahaahhahaha WOW, where do I even begin . . . it is progapanda that couldn't be more precisely crafted to the corrupt press's specifications (i.e. "narrative"), and broadcast to a national non-gamer audience, much of which likely accepted it as reality. It was a wake-up call to quite a few previously unaware or neutral parties, especially game devs*.

Eurogamer is the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining PC Gamer, IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC).

Gamergate also got Brad Wardell (CEO of Stardock) some long-overdue apologies for hit pieces run against him:
https://twitter.com/iamDavidWi...
http://www.gamepolitics.com/20...
http://www.zenofdesign.com/in-...

Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). Of course none of it ever had a chance of appearing in the Wikipedia article. Nothing enrages anti-Gamergaters more than someone covering both sides of the story, and that should tell you something.

Their side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.


* like Mark Kern and Ken Levine, who had nothing to do with Gamergate, but were so disgusted by the SVU episode that they publically called on the gaming press to stop slandering gamers. Both were instantly swarmed by anti-GG on twitter, and VG24/7 ran a hit piece on Kern without even getting his side of the story, and refused even after he specifically asked them. I think Eurogamer saw exactly what happened to Kern, and it's no accident that tha

The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and ongoing user comment/forum censorship (in former free-speech strongholds such as 4chan and Reddit, no less) didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are Over" articles hasn't worked.
The doxxing and harassment of pro-GG folks hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only damage those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.
The SVU episode . . . hahaahhahaha WOW, where do I even begin . . . it is progapanda that couldn't be more precisely crafted to the corrupt press's specifications (i.e. "narrative"), and broadcast to a national non-gamer audience, much of which likely accepted it as reality. It was a wake-up call to quite a few previously unaware or neutral parties, especially game devs*.

Eurogamer is the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining PC Gamer, IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC). And there are probably more I'm forgetting.

Gamergate also got Brad Wardell (CEO of Stardock) some long-overdue apologies for hit pieces run against him:
https://twitter.com/iamDavidWi...
http://www.gamepolitics.com/20...
http://www.zenofdesign.com/in-...

Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). Of course none of it ever had a chance of appearing in the Wikipedia article. Nothing enrages anti-Gamergaters more than someone covering both sides of the story, and that should tell you something.

Their side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.


* like Mark Kern and Ken Levine, who had nothing to do with Gamergate, but were so disgusted by the SVU episode that they publically called on the gaming press to stop slandering gamers. Both were instantly swarmed by anti-GG on twitter, and VG24/7 ran a hit piece on Kern without even getting his side of the story, and refused even after he specifically asked them. I think Eurogamer saw exactly what happened to Kern, and it's no accident that that their policy explicitly includes a "right of reply" (perhaps a subtle message that they won't similarly treat game devs like shit).

The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and user comment/forum censorship didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are Over" articles hasn't worked.
The doxxing and harassment of pro-GG folks hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only damage those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.

PC Gamer is the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC). And there are probably more I'm forgetting.

Gamergate also got Brad Wardell (CEO of Stardock) some long-overdue apologies for hit pieces run against him:
https://twitter.com/iamDavidWi...
http://www.gamepolitics.com/20...
http://www.zenofdesign.com/in-...

Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). Of course none of it ever had a chance of appearing in the Wikipedia article. Nothing enrages anti-Gamergaters more than someone covering both sides of the story, and that should tell you something.

Their side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.

Fucking normalfags, I swear...

It looks like there may be a second "error".

http://i5.minus.com/jx1cmyfZvN...

I still think it is hilarious people even give a shit about mentioning his reaction to Euclideon.

He is an average programmer at best that got SERIOUSLY lucky. Even he said that before the power and popularity got to his head. Then every community that cared for him kicked him out in quick succession, one after another. From 4chan to reddit to youtube.

The even funnier part is he seems to think Minecraft is the epitome of voxel worlds. Minecraft BLOWS in terms of its game engine.
It is so horribly inefficient that so many times they have come up with lame excuses for not making the world infinite height.
I can't count how many times I told him how he could improve the game engine considerably, and simplify the already simple skylighting system.
Then a modder comes in and blows them all away. (and me)
Hell, his own team completely overhauled the renderer when they finally got allowed to after he stopped interfering, and now the renderer is considerably faster than before.

It was funniest when after he blasted it for being a complete fraud, then HardOCP guys popped over for a visit and they showed off a realtime demo of the engine working for huge static scenes. He never had any reply for that one, that was for sure. Yogscast drama all over again.
Notch really developed an awful habit of that when he got popular. He developed a HUGE ego and a huge reason to voice opinions.
Shame, if only he never got popular, then Minecraft might have been fun, like he promised.

People are going to have to face facts, the engine works, it has even been proven several times with live demos.
They stupidly keep referring to it being awesome for game engines, which is probably damaging them more than it should be, but it would be great for all sorts of laser scanning data like shown. Combined with the usual light source probing and even sound mapping, you could create those sorts of things easier and get some good sound harmonics too instead of having to assign textures various properties. (that one team that put dynamic sound in to Half Life, that was fantastic. Games really need to play around with actual sound modelling more. It is an amazing difference over pre-computed)
I mean, it possibly could be good for games engines now, they did have a very easily game engine working on their older engines that had voxel creatures (probably still assigned a skeleton for anchor points though, but that just makes sense)
Regardless, their engine works. It will likely still need a decent-ish hard drive or solid-state drive not to lag. I also had a similar idea for an engine, but never got it working well enough for anything of worth, so I dropped it entirely. I even found my old notepads with some of the maths I had written down, that was so exciting to find all my old stuff. I would love to know how they managed to defeat the bandwidth issues for it. I am not math enough for that.

I've been able to do absolutely enormous things in my dreams, architectural perfection, like designing massive underground cities to save humanity from impending doom, all the way down to where pipes would be in the large cement tubes that hold the city, which made optimizing homes to have all pipe-connected stuff against one wall, including electrical stuff, crawl space bedroom/ storage area, even a low-profile vehicle system to get around really quickly. (it was one-way serial traffic in that regard because there other side was for stairs to homes and other stuff)
Even whole separate sections for farms, waste recycling and such. I thought of it all.
I even made a terrible model of a rough cross-section of it in Blender before I got annoyed and stopped because they changed everything: Picture related
As you can see, I never got far in bringing it to a 3D model. That is awful. I never fixed the stair-height problem where you'd whack your head off the middle dividing section, no walls, no nuthin.

The only math involved was 26feet. (the diameter of your typical large cement tubes I believe, or 28, I can't remember now)
Any time I try to go near something detailed like writing or math, my dreams fall to bits.
Ratios of one thing to another are the only way I can really do mathematically correct things.
So, anything visual and I am a GOD.

Thing is, quite honestly, I see this as using any excuse to not do work, something Notch is very well known to do ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
"Hey Notch, we love that space game you are making, cannot wait to play it, those new features sound great!"
"Yeeeaaah, cancelling my space game, people like it too much.... VACATIONS"
Is there any excuses he HASN'T used over the years?

I'd care if it was someone of worth, but someone that got lucky with a block-building game who sits on a pile of cash doing nothing, I literally could not care less.
If it wasn't for those interviews or 4chan /v/, his game would be nothing. (and before some tard comes out and says "b-b-b-but youtube!", there was not a single person playing the game at the time, this was WELL before that time, way before the game was even known, youtube-craft is the last and most recent boom in sales, but I am speaking the first)
He used to update the game so much back then. Adding features all the time, one by one.
Sudden increase in sales, makes a company, less updates, which was understandable at the time, he needed time to solidify the company. Then time went on. And on. And on. And still none of what he planned got released. Then he ditched the game entirely and threw it at Jeb to pick up the shattered community because /v/ would no longer suck his dick.
What's that noise I hear? Oh my, the sudden rush of the Notch Defence Force.

And on that note, I still play the game, modded only, vanilla is awful. I've even co-run a server for years now, which went through various different modpacks, most recently Hexxit. So much for that Mod API. They should have just let Bukkit have full fucking control of the thing instead of having to write a new damn API.

Bzzt. http://i1.minus.com/iPcccu2MDL... does not show the factual location of the pings. Read the caption. It shows "Examples" of pings that could have given the tracks that the NTSB released. The actual location of the pings has not been publicly released, even though the ping data must have strongly influenced the NTSB tracks that have been published. This image from minus.com was drawn by Scott Henderson, who has explained that the pings shown in the diagram were drawn to illustrate the process that the NTSB presumably employed. This artifice got some strong negative reactions, such as http://willyloman.wordpress.co...

Knowing the actual ping locations, particularly the 3:11 and 4:11 pings, could help clarify when the turn to the south took place and better pin down the complete track.

What's that? The pings "got longer"? OMG I've never heard that before, that sounds like new information!, post. post. post. post. post.

Ummm, except this was all published FIVE DAYS AGO, simply in a more useful form:

http://i1.minus.com/iPcccu2MDL...

They've been searching based on this "new information" since TUESDAY:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Slate, FutureWise, Jeff Wise, and Timothy, are all idiots who are FIVE DAYS OUT OF DATE.

WHAT? That article is from 8 days ago!!! It's still talking about the Andamaan sea!! It says NOTHING about the search off Australia.

The diagram I saw two days ago showed all seven pings and their exact times (11 minutes past each hour), and that is how they have come up with these small slices of the arc. This article specifically states that:

http://online.wsj.com/news/art...

Here is the image I'm talking about:

http://i1.minus.com/iPcccu2MDL...

What the NTSB has done is very simple. Assume it's most likely the plane is travelling at a steady speed, not too fast, not too slow, and mathematically match that to the available ping locations. BAM, you have the smalls slices shown there. All of the other areas would require the plane to do wierd things like turn around after the last ping, or slow down excessively, or speed up excessively.

OP's story/article is a pile of baloney, just like most media coverage. ALL of the pings have been used to create the new search areas, the ones that they've been carefully searching SINCE TUESDAY.

The sun may have fewer sunspots than expected for this time in the cycle, but it still has more spots than it did during the last minimum.

Going by a straight count of visible spots has served us pretty well since people started spotting spots. But while lots 'o spots have been spotted the magnetic flux and general energy release has been spotty. For another metric look at this comparison of spot-count to magnetic field data. Also see this solar slump article by Anthony Watts, and look for "pores" in the comments. The criteria for identifying spots is changing in ways that might overstate the count as compared with previous observational methods. Adjustment is inevitable -- we are using a sunspot count in historical record spanning the era of the naked eye right through improved optics to the whole-spectrum imaging of today.

I do this as well, and occasionally I also take pictures of a page and put it on tablet to work with it there at night without having to have a useless light source on that isn't a screen.
I carry both of them everywhere I go and manually "sync" them together.
I use a specific plan for notetaking that involves the page being split up in to columns, and on the 3rd column, that is split in to 3, around 10% of it is the title and description, the next is any key / UI information, descriptive rough sketches really, then the bottom section is a scratchpad.
I use that bottom section to plan things out before writing it in to the actual columns, that way everything is neatly organized and I never need to erase stuff often.

And this is also my main general todo list that holds the active tasks.My todo list layout
This basically lays out all my active tasks in a typical 6 month period. (outside of the long-term ones that is, they are more life-goals, and tertiary as well I guess, they are more a year-long task typically)
I've included dating in it recently to make it easier to organize things.
This more or less follows the same layout I mentioned above, hell, the layout mentioned above is derived from this anyway since I found it easier to organize more complex tasks on separate pages or share pages with other tasks if they are reasonably small enough.

I use S Note for the tablet-side of things. Works well, has decent brush control, can set opacity, so you can even draw decent pictures in it very easily without having to watch out for those pixels.
I'm thinking of switching to another program though, Sketchbook. Full drawing program and has better drawing support, better text, rotations, translations, scales.
Well, I say translations, it doesn't. Why the HELL do so few drawing programs have selection and translation support on tablets?! It is a trivial operation in code, even more trivial than rotations and scaling! Get on it Autodesk!

I switched from a basic, awful list of text items to this over a year ago and all of this has helped hugely.
Well, actually closer to 2 years ago since I used the 3 column layout for other singular tasks before. Including scratchpad area.
But the bulk was text items and colors to define active, done or failed tasks. (and if failed, whether to do them again by bolding them)

Now where is my fucking patent for replicating nature in 5 minutes?

Design Documents

Trololololol....

True, but the AC is still right. I've looked at the comparisons and like it has been said elsewhere: VP9 is better than VP8, but that's about it.

See for yourself:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1620230#post1620230

The third line in that posts links to this image, showing snapshots from the comparison between VP8, VP9, AVC (x264) and HEVC (HM10): http://i3.minus.com/i5vzrESbfwCmX.png

HEVC is just an absolute beast in (perceptual) video compression. If you look at the bitrates here, you assume that the videos must be crap, but they look ridiculously good. And that is with an early days reference encoder!

But that is wrong. Notch bounced off of people sucking his e-peen. Not even being insulting, he needed it a lot. This is actual history.
He is one of those types that won't do anything unless he is told "good job dude, you are doing great work, keep going, soon we will have a fantastic game!".
Notch had nothing to lose in developing this. It was a fun game that he worked with in a smallish community that exploded far beyond what he could have expected. And he was not even remotely ready for the backlash and hate he would get for the game too.

I know, I remember all that on 4chan /v/ for years until Notch just gave up caring and then when he "jumped ship" to Reddit after all the ideas we gave up and helped him, /v/ turned nasty against him, absolutely malicious. (I never because I'm not 10)
Even I was behind him for that time too, but then he got just straight up lazy not long after the Paypal account locked incident. Slowly but surely he got lazier with each update. I lost faith in the game ever being completed to any reasonable extent.

That and the Yogscast mess at Minecon basically destroyed Notch. Mojang is going well, but Notch may as well be gone since several major communities despise him now. Still made a bucketload of money that could fund silly and possible failures of games for years and set them for life. (maybe)
Now he has put his own new game in devhell, 0x10c, because he got bored of it.
Whether it will ever see the light of day is another question. (unless he already got back in to it, but I saw another possible game idea that I never bothered to check if there is anything more detailed about it)

It was going to be our cool fun block game that became some gay circle instead. (image with some swearing)

If they could create that and "compact" the view in a gradient towards the left and right sides of the eye the further it gets towards 180 on each side, it could be insanely useful for a lot of people, military especially.
Vertical to the top of your head would be nice too. So you have a view of everything around you that would matter.
So this is what the left eye would look like, for example.
More or less something like that, the main area isn't that warped, but towards the outsides of the eye, you get a compressed view of behind your head.

The sound thing could be fantastic in crowded places, bars, clubs and similar especially.
Or imagine it on a teachers head so they could have an amplified but still decibel-limited soundscape of the room, so even tiny whispers could sound loud as normal speech. Lectures as well, conferences, so many places it could be useful.

I encourage you to do the evaluation yourself. It literally takes only a few minutes in a spreadsheet or Google Docs, and once you know how to do it, it helps you check lots of other things.

If you really want to see just the pictures, go here. It contains plots for the world, OECD, OECD w/o US and Mexico, and Europe.

http://i.minus.com/id4Z4oYzqltEI.png

http://i.minus.com/isrBKRvyAclXW.png

http://i.minus.com/iPtfP6kkiItiq.png

http://i.minus.com/is6jR1mePdlGS.png

I encourage you to do the evaluation yourself. It literally takes only a few minutes in a spreadsheet or Google Docs, and once you know how to do it, it helps you check lots of other things.

If you really want to see just the pictures, go here. It contains plots for the world, OECD, OECD w/o US and Mexico, and Europe.

http://i.minus.com/id4Z4oYzqltEI.png

http://i.minus.com/isrBKRvyAclXW.png

http://i.minus.com/iPtfP6kkiItiq.png

http://i.minus.com/is6jR1mePdlGS.png

I encourage you to do the evaluation yourself. It literally takes only a few minutes in a spreadsheet or Google Docs, and once you know how to do it, it helps you check lots of other things.

If you really want to see just the pictures, go here. It contains plots for the world, OECD, OECD w/o US and Mexico, and Europe.

http://i.minus.com/id4Z4oYzqltEI.png

http://i.minus.com/isrBKRvyAclXW.png

http://i.minus.com/iPtfP6kkiItiq.png

http://i.minus.com/is6jR1mePdlGS.png

I encourage you to do the evaluation yourself. It literally takes only a few minutes in a spreadsheet or Google Docs, and once you know how to do it, it helps you check lots of other things.

If you really want to see just the pictures, go here. It contains plots for the world, OECD, OECD w/o US and Mexico, and Europe.

http://i.minus.com/id4Z4oYzqltEI.png

http://i.minus.com/isrBKRvyAclXW.png

http://i.minus.com/iPtfP6kkiItiq.png

http://i.minus.com/is6jR1mePdlGS.png

Police don't need a search warrant to investigate your person during or immediately after a crime.

Here's another picture of paramilitary police wearing camouflage, brandishing military weapons, conducting door to door searches for you.

Because of the simple fact that they never made the interface seamless between touch and mouse use, hiding it almost entirely would be great.

If only they actually spent time making it work with a mouse. It would have been trivial to make work just as well as a touchscreen, if not better.
I regularly switch between touch and mouse for drawing, touch for quick planning and general look, mouse for the absolute precise parts with mouse set to lowest setting. (setup with a hotkey on capslock to slow the mouse down, works very well)
I wrote very simple programs and scripts to make working with the touch using a stylus just as easy as with keyboard and mouse, and likewise made some of the same changes with the mouse to make quick navigation and control schemes that can be used with it, even adding interface overlays to some programs for quick access to certain features quickly.
One common thing I have added to a lot of stuff is straight up cut, copy and paste buttons, undo, redo. Image of one example here.
Pretty basic, looks horrible, but it works. I will likely tidy it up one day when I can be bothered, and make icons instead of text. But I have no real care for doing so.

Now I might actually care about getting a new Windows again.
I thought I would have to wait for Windows 9, but with the whole OS shake-up they are going through, who knows what will happen.
Good luck to them.

A terrible marketing company.

Them killing all of these things just shows how terrible Google have actually become in recent years.
Waaah, we can't monetize iGoogle. Yes, can't monetize it indeed, no space anywhere for ads or anything.
Waaah, we can't monetize Reader, you know I can't even be bothered taking a picture of it.
They are just flat-out terrible now. It is embarrassing.

They also can't even advertise their own damn products.
Ask any single person you know if they know what Orkut is. Or many of their other smaller services. They are smaller for a reason, they don't advertise the damn things.
Putting stuff behind "more..." is not a good way to advertise things. At all.
So many of the things in Google Labs were useful as hell and would have been helpful for SO MANY PEOPLE, but they never advertised the damn things so they died, and then Google Labs died, and then things that were in trial outside of Labs died, then still fairly popular things were killed because they are stupid.

I'm soon for moving all my crap away from them. At this rate they will kill them selves as a public entity.
Absolute embarrassment now. What the actual hell happened to them? Where did all those bright minds go? HELL, where did the even remotely smart people go? Surely Google isn't now employed by complete generic morons who get spat out of college every semester?
I'm sort of glad I never bothered sending an application in to them. Even if I was accepted and was still there for years.

Poor Maxis, i feel so bad for them.

It's sad how often this can reasonably be updated.

It starts, with a killer asteroid hurling towards the earth.

Our hero is summoned, and immediately springs into action.

He sets out with his trusty weapon to save the world from the danger of the week.

After a long and awesome journey, he finally reach his destination.

Finally there, he slowly takes aim, breathes, and fire at The Killer Meteor. The meteor, alerted to his presence, fights back. What follows is a long action sequence only slowing down now and then so our hero can do manly poses.

After a long battle, and lots of shooting and fishing was done, there was only a small fragment left, just enough to spend the CGI budget, and show everyone how dangerous The Killer Meteor could have been.

No one was killed, and the world was again saved thanks to our hero.

The End.

Well, it's really preference in the end. I've always found Firebug and Web Developer a bit clunky. Especially how they handle JavaScript. In Opera, we get a fancy schmancy pretty-print beautified version of code (Togglable) to make weird formatting readable. Every variable that is initialized can be inspected by hovering over them with the mouse.

This is debugging a mouseover event in minified jQuery.
As you can see, it's a lot easier to work with. I just hovered the mouse over elements to inspect them, and clicked on the HTMLDivElement to select it on the page. While not an ideal situation, it certainly is made easier because of Dragonfly.

One thing I like about Firebug that Dragonfly handles in a weird way is breaking on AJAX requests. But that's about my only complaint.

But that's just me. Different strokes for different folks.

and the Web Developer toolbar allows quick highlighting of block elements like you were mentioning. Not to mention quick cache disable, js, all image sizes and paths on the page, and quick user agent access.

Yeah... Dragonfly doesn't have disabling JavaScript and the sort because it's an option built into the browser already, so it would be redundant. I access them all through a my sidebar (Show/hide it with [F4]) and custom shortcuts, so it's all usually really fast.

I guess I might just be used to right click + Q to inspect instead of navigating a menu ...

You don't need to navigate a menu to inspect elements... That would be really tedious to use.
If you are on the Document tab in Dragonfly, you just need to click an element on the page to select it. No need to navigate DOM structure to pick something up.

Also, if you are in another tab, [Right Click] -> [I] does the same thing as [Right Click] -> [Q] does for you.

Not quite.

In style of all the other features they copied, Firefox and Chrome both do this now... Both for address and keywords.
But Opera's keyword search is better because it can handle POST requests whereas Firefox's and Chrome's cannot. So you cannot keyword Google Translate (Or similar services) with excessively long strings. Also, many searches are exclusively POST-based.

I honestly use [Ctrl] + [L] more often than any other key combination because I have so many keywords. (Notice the scrollbar? That list has grown since then too.)

I usually set my default address bar search to Google's "I'm feeling lucky" because it usually goes to the right website without ever needing to see a results page. (Keyword address is "http://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=%s" if you want it.)

It even goes to Google search if things are too ambiguous.

The only downside are some automagic suggestions, they won't show up unless you specify the default Google search keyword yourself. (In my case, "g".)

Not quite.

In style of all the other features they copied, Firefox and Chrome both do this now... Both for address and keywords.
But Opera's keyword search is better because it can handle POST requests whereas Firefox's and Chrome's cannot. So you cannot keyword Google Translate (Or similar services) with excessively long strings. Also, many searches are exclusively POST-based.

I honestly use [Ctrl] + [L] more often than any other key combination because I have so many keywords. (Notice the scrollbar? That list has grown since then too.)

I usually set my default address bar search to Google's "I'm feeling lucky" because it usually goes to the right website without ever needing to see a results page. (Keyword address is "http://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=%s" if you want it.)

It even goes to Google search if things are too ambiguous.

The only downside are some automagic suggestions, they won't show up unless you specify the default Google search keyword yourself. (In my case, "g".)

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

I use Opera because it both has the best usage paradigm for me and integrates with pretty much everything I need to do online.

It takes far less time for me to do anything in Opera than it would in another browser. There are extensions for some Opera features in other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, user scripts, and user CSS. But they all lack capabilities that Opera's native version has. There are also no extensions for some Opera features like Tab stacking, or mass-refreshing, pinning, or deleting tabs and windows. (Complete with incremental tab search.) The website-independent settings settings are also awesome, I've used them to make my Slashdot hot pink for example. :)

Also, If I don't like Opera's interface... I can build it.

It has shortcuts for everything too, and if it doesn't, you can make them. One in particular I use is Mousewheel tab switching. Firefox has partial mousewheel tab-switching in it's current incarnations, but it only works with [Right Click] + [Mousewheel down].

Also I've seen mouse gesture extensions for other browsers, (The best extension is All-in-one gestures for Firefox since it also integrates Rocker Navigation.) but they don't encompass the entire browser and only web pages. So I can't use mouse gestures to close or navigate a settings menu for example.

It's sidebar is also really useful. I use it for things like controlling VLC, or E-Mail and RSS and Usenet, or looking at Opera's CPU usage, or contact management with incremental search an everything (No screenshot for this one because too much personal information), or controlling Transmission (Torrent program), or interacting with notes, or quickly turning on/off my proxies or masking my user agent, or managing my tabs and windows, or

Also, as a web developer... Opera has a lot of spiffy development features that lack in other browsers. Dragonfly has more capabilities than the Webkit inspector, for example it can inspect attached events in DOM nodes. There are also view modes built in that allow you to highlight element borders for debugging CSS or see DOM attributes inline. Autoreferesh is also good for debugging CSS and for repeating YouTube videos. :)

I glazed over most of it's features, and it's still many magnitudes more functional than other browsers.

How many extensions do you think I use to get this functionality? The correct answer is zero. And the browser takes up less space than either Firefox or Chrome when installed.

Is this a good enough reason to use Opera?

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Have you considered Cinnamon? It's a fork of GNOME 3 that ended up being what I was hoping GNOME 3 would become. You can customize it to become a very similar experience to GNOME 2 (By default it's more Windows >= 7-like), it uses GTK3, it has a usage paradigm that most people are used to, and the things that are different are changeable.

It's also really pretty.