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Safari Killing Opera for Mac OS X?

Posted by pudge on Tuesday January 28, 2003 @05:26AM from the mmmmmm-scapegoat dept.

analog_line writes "According to an article at News.com, the folks at Opera have given an ultimatum to Apple: Use the Opera engine in Safari or we'll have to rethink developing Opera for the Mac. While I know people who use Opera for the Mac, I find it hard to believe that Opera thinks they'll get any response other than, 'enjoy developing for one less platform.'"

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Re:No loss... by baryon351 · 2003-01-28 09:16 · Score: 4, Informative

I think you've summed it up well there. Opera on the macs I've used it on (400Mhz G3 with Jaguar, and a few G4/Dual G4s also with Jaguar) just doesn't compete. It's noticeably slower than IE, chimera and Safari, and featurewise doesn't offer anything I can't get on the other browsers.

That's not to say there aren't other people with needs that Opera addresses just perfectly, however.