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Google Default Search For Opera Mobile
sayanchak writes "Reuters reports that Opera Software has agreed that Google will be the default partner for its mobile Internet browsers. Google will be the default search partner for the mobile browsers, Opera Mobile and Opera Mini." From the article: "Oslo-based Opera Software is a tiny competitor of Microsoft in the Internet browser market, but the fast-growing part of its business is in browsers for mobile phones and other mobile electronic devices."
If a user navigates away from a page with an outstanding background request, or if they issue a second request while the first is outstanding, the results are effectively undefined. : /
What do you mean? If a user navigates away from a page, any outstanding requests for that page should be disregarded. You don't hear people complaining when people navigate away from a page before images have finished loading, do you? That's exactly the same thing.
As for two simultaneous requests, the problem is that a lot of Javascript is written assuming that it doesn't happen, not that how it works is some big mystery. The problem lies with the particular web developers that make assumptions like that. If you know what you are doing, then it's not a problem.
I like this, opera mini is really good software that works like a charm on my Siemens C60 I just got from my brother on christmas (he bought a new one and gave me the old one). Everbody that want good search results will use google, it's is the best search engine out there today, so this deal make a lot of sense, both for google and opera.
There will be no end-point, "really great mobile applications". Closure is as anti-sales as giving people the source code: WTF the coercion?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Isn't it the same with Firefox? Except, well, Google didn't have to pay for it.
You're kidding, right? One of the main reasons for the search bar in Firefox is the money that Mozilla's partners (e.g Google) pay to be convieniently and visibly embedded in your UI. Our eyeballs pay Mozilla's wage bill.
(For the more defensive types out there, note that this isn't a negative criticism).
Mozilla Corporation gets a cut every time you click on an ad from a Google search.
Agreed, Opera should be compared to something like Firefox than IE.
In my experience on a 266 Mhz Slackware box, Opera has operated way faster than Firefox. And all the extensions (like session saver) I use on Firefox are built-in anyways. Unlike the Mozilla Firefox was forked from, it doesn't seem to bloat the software. I completely understand why Opera is becoming such a leader in mobile internet browsing.
I haven't yet tried Firefox 1.5, so I won't comment on it's speed, but it needs quite a boost to catch up to Opera. Speed isn't really noticible on faster computers (Firefox and Opera seem about the same on my 2.2 Ghz Windows box); you really notice it on older hardware.
Sorry that's not really on original topic, but is at least replying to the previous post.
NetFront 3.2, as of now, is the incumbent ruling web browser for Windows Pocket PCs, excluding IE Mobile (Opera Mobile is still in beta/alpha/unreleased stage).
It, too, uses Google as the default search. Really, what *would* they use... MSN search?