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Opera Embraces Extensions For v.11
dkd903 writes "Opera is one of the most solid browsers around. It is very fast, extremely customizable, and has a lot of functionality that others do not have. Opera is also a very strong supporter of Web standards; it was one of the first browsers to pass the ACID 3 test. However, Opera has always been confined to a relatively small user-base because of one critical thing — lack of extensions. Well, that is about to change — at least the extensions part. Today, it has been announced that Opera 11 will support extensions."
I keep going back to Firefox because although Opera is much faster than Firefox it crashes too much. Annoying and a security risk.
I tried Opera a while back. It installed some files (mime-type information, or .desktop files, or something) that broke KDE. All file associations were lost. When I uninstalled Opera, things were back to normal.
Last time I tried Adobe's PDF reader, it installed its own icons that completely clashed with my desktop's icons (WITHOUT ASKING, and EVERY TIME IT RAN). It also, if I recall, set itself as the preferred reader. Without asking.
These companies need to realize that not all the world's Windows and we don't all need to be treated like Windows users. Fine, so Windows doesn't know about file types whose programs aren't installed: install your own icons, etc. KDE does know about a lot of file types, and might even (gasp) have associations set up with them (especially relevant with PDF: we have kpdf and xpdf at least). I will not try Opera and Adobe Reader anymore, because they have messed up my system. They didn't take the time to learn enough about non-Windows systems.
I'm very happy with Konqueror and kpdf/okular. They don't screw with my system.
It doesn't matter, Opera does not fit. Extensions, speed, bloated, ... are just excuses.