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Chrome Helping Other Browsers Out, Says Opera CEO

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the chrome-outnumbers-opera-on-slashdot dept.

Pablo Martinez-Almeida writes "Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner confirms that new entrants in the browser market are raising awareness on the mainstream Internet community about the availability of alternatives to the ubiquitous Internet Explorer. 'How has the emergence of WebKit and Chrome changed the market for you? JvT: The effect of Chrome so far has been 20 percent more downloads every day. It's fairly logical when you think about it, because the biggest hurdle we have is all those people that don't realize there's an alternative in the market. Now, with the launch of Chrome there's focus on the choice of browsers in the market.'

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  1. Re:Chrome for me? by MilesAttacca · · Score: 4, Informative

    CrossOver Chromium is exactly what you're looking for. It's not officially by Google, but ported by CodeWeavers, the WINE folks.

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  2. Re:story title edit: by JeepFanatic · · Score: 5, Informative

    If I'm not mistaken, Safari uses WebKit as its rendering engine just like Chrome does. This might account for any similarity in quirky behavior.

  3. Re:Opera Mozilla by Kyro · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use per-site preferences instead of noscript when I use Opera.
    At the moment I use it with Javascript turned on in the main preferences and then when I come to a site with completely intrusive ads (hello /.) I use the site-preferences to turn off Javascript for that domain.

    I just right click and choose "Edit site preferences". It's great!
    I just can't believe google haven't got gmail working with opera correctly yet, it's a bit buggy.

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  4. Re:Opera Mozilla by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are you sure you're aware of Opera's full feature set?

    Opera has both per-site Noscript and Noscript by default, it's up to you.

    Right-click on a website, pick "Edit site preferences..." and uncheck "Enable Javascript" for the domain if you want. Or disable Javascript for the entire application, and check Enable Javascript for the sites you wish.

    As for blocking ads, right-click on the site with ads and pick "Block content..." -- wildcards are supported. The only thing I miss there is a subscription like that in Adblock, but after having blocked the most common sites, I don't get ads nearly as much anymore.

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  5. Re:Chrome for me? by arcade · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have had system lockups, but not often (not every year). However, if your system locks up "softly" it's very easy:

    1. ctrl+alt+F(1-8). That is, F1 - F8. Log in there, find the process, kill it.
    2. If the machine doesn't take your keys immediately, try "alt+sysrq r" , which switches your keyboard from XLATE to RAW mode. Then go to 1.
    3. ssh into the machine from another machine and kill the misbehaving process
    4. ctrl+alt+backspace (kills X and all applications running in your X session).

    Knowing the above tricks, you'll get way fewer lockups. The usual suspects for lockups in my case has been funky graphics cards and laptops with funny sleep/suspend/hibernate modes.

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  6. Re:Chrome for me? by bendodge · · Score: 4, Informative

    I also like Ctrl+Alt+Esc, which gives me a nice X cursor and nukes something I click. I don't know if this works outside of KDE4.

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  7. Re:wer by Huntr · · Score: 4, Informative

    Opera hasn't had an ad banner in a few generations.