Certainly, but you are the one grasping for straws by mentioning things that look like simple bugs and generalizing, all because someone pointed out that Opera's memory and resource handling is far better than Firefox's.
Can the DS run more than one program at a time? If not, then there's little point in doing what you propose. Yeah, fewer cartidges to carry around, but you'll still have to do one thing at a time.
Maybe it'll work with web based IM/chat services...
"Yeah, except that the market for cell phone browsers is still very small in comparison to desktop browsers"
Opera is changing that. Opera Mini is but one example.
"Nintendo is not an underdog"
It is in the home console market. Everyone's always going on about Sony and Microsoft, often forgetting Nintendo. Until the Revolution was announced, that is...
"Opera is about as underdog as it gets."
Not in the mobile market, no. It is considered to be the #1 mobile browser, as a matter of fact. So Opera and Nintendo are similar there.
"On more specific things, it's pretty wellknown that Nintendo used the iPod Mini as the basic footprint size for their GBA Micro (even the name suggests some influence)."
Well known? Where?
"they've been extremely successful in their secondary markets, of which they practically created"
Hmm, sounds like Opera and mobile browsers. When Opera started out everyone was doing WAP, and laughing at Opera for thinking that web browsers on mobile phones was a good idea. Now everyone's following Opera and trying to create a mobile browser.
"It should be noted that both companies, while not being the leader in their primary markets, still make a very comfortable profit off of them, none-the-less, and in some cases (like with the sales of the GameCube), sit much better than their competitors."
Sounds like Opera... While Mozilla has been getting donations from huge corporations, Opera has been thriving on its own as an independent company.
Most of all, they are loved by many for the exact same reasons (ease of use, intuitive design, quality software), and hated by many for a negative spin on those very same reasons ("kiddy", do not have the quantitave processing power of their competitors, too freindly).
Back-end? That's Opera Mini, just one of Opera's mobile offerings. Opera is doing real mobile browsing with standalone browsers, and has done that for many years. Opera Mini is just there for lower end phones that can't run a full browser.
I have no idea what you mean by "not been responding". Opera started working on real mobile web browsers years ago, back when everyone said "who wants to surf the web on a phone anyway?! WAP is where it's at!"...
Opera Mobile is avilable for a huge number of mobile platforms, and has been for years. Windows Mobile is just one of the latest additions.
Opera and Access have been competing in the mobile/portable market for a long time. Access has actually been trying to catch up with Opera, but isn't quite there yet.
Not only are you a troll, but a conspiracy theorist who takes a couple of bugs and generalizes from that.
You need to take off your Firefox Fanboy Zombie costume and get a clue. But Firefox zealots spreading FUD about Opera and other browsers isn't exactly uncommon:
People like you, who among other things spread FUD and lies about other browsers to move the focus away from major issues in Firefox, are the reason why the Firefox community has such a terrible reputation.
You are making up excuses to cover up Firefox's shortcomings by pointing out a couple of bugs in Opera and using the sad and pathetic excuse that they are taking "shortcuts".
"Certainly saving on some sanity checks speeds things up."
No, you are wrong.
"Opera is known to refresh only changed (through JS/DOM for example) elements and not the whole document, and this has led a long way of suffering for developers - Opera 6 or 7 did refreshing only of affected element while completely neglecting ALL the neighborhood and child elements, making all the drop-down menus etc a hell to make (you change visibility of the menu container but visibility of its child elements - menu items doesn't change."
How is Opera 6 relevant exactly? It is several years old. Opera 6 did have limited DOM support, but Opera 7 addressed that.
"Doing the easy stuff instead of the right stuff is common thorough Opera."
No, you are completely wrong again. Again, bugs or just differences in general != shortcuts. You keep making these baseless assumptions about "shortcuts" in Opera, but they are blatant lies.
"I clearly know enough of Opera to point out all of the above which I have stumbled upon myself"
And you are clearly not competent enough to make comments about "shortcuts". Again, bugs are not shortcuts.
"You on the other hand, with no single solid argument sound like a rabid Opera fanboy. What about a good rebuttal instead?"
A good rebuttal to what? A bunch of lies and baseless assumptions and speculation based on a couple of bugs you stumbled upon?
Those numbers don't look right at all. Opera is well known for its better and more efficient memory handling. Clearly, you have done something weird with Opera on your system.
"So Opera (we) clearly side with the pro-patent lobby."
Um no, if you actually bother to read it, you will see that the first round was won by those opposing software patents, and the second round was also won by those opposing software patents. Therefore, "we" are those opposting software patents.
Funny that you should mention positioning, seeing as this is exactly one of the things Firefox sucks at compared to Opera 8. And positioned generated content... Ouch, it is painful to even think about Firefox's implementation.
Opera 9 obviously improves on Opera's CSS support. I never said it was perfect (neither is Firefox's - by far). But Opera 8 already has better CSS support than Firefox.
No, but live RSS is a sad excuse for newsfeed handling. Even Mozilla knows that, and that's why they are going to fix it.
"Opera doesn't have tabbed browsing first either"
I never claimed that it did.
"Opera User js borrowed from GreaseMonkey, not the other way around!"
Dear oh dear. Opera's User JS is from back in the day when they released the bork version. That was, what, version 7? Ages before Firefox was even being considered.
"Adblock is the first usable way to block ads from within the browser"
Several IE shells did ad blocking from withing the browser long before AdBlock.
"Oh yea since Firefox has it, and other browsers copied it, you can simply ignore it; while at the same time, the Opera fans can reiterate how Firefox borrows Tabs from Opera, even though Tabs has been done to death as well."
The point here is that Firefox keeps taking over features that already exist in Opera and other browsers. Opera is innovative, Firefox is not.
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Faster? Extensions slow Firefox down and make it unstable in my experience.
You are the apologist zealot troll, fanboiiii.
Maybe it'll work with web based IM/chat services...
Back-end? That's Opera Mini, just one of Opera's mobile offerings. Opera is doing real mobile browsing with standalone browsers, and has done that for many years. Opera Mini is just there for lower end phones that can't run a full browser.
Opera Mobile is avilable for a huge number of mobile platforms, and has been for years. Windows Mobile is just one of the latest additions.
Opera and Access have been competing in the mobile/portable market for a long time. Access has actually been trying to catch up with Opera, but isn't quite there yet.
Do a Google search. He keeps pushing his own commercial encryption software.
You need to take off your Firefox Fanboy Zombie costume and get a clue. But Firefox zealots spreading FUD about Opera and other browsers isn't exactly uncommon:
http://www.slyerfox.com/
People like you, who among other things spread FUD and lies about other browsers to move the focus away from major issues in Firefox, are the reason why the Firefox community has such a terrible reputation.
You are making up excuses to cover up Firefox's shortcomings by pointing out a couple of bugs in Opera and using the sad and pathetic excuse that they are taking "shortcuts".
Please.
Those numbers don't look right at all. Opera is well known for its better and more efficient memory handling. Clearly, you have done something weird with Opera on your system.
Um no, Opera does not have the same memory issue. Opera is a lot better at memory handling than Firefox, apparently.
And guess what, Opera can be extended in many different ways:
http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/01/opera-and-f irefox-extensions f irefox-extensions-ii
http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/09/opera-and-
Opera doesn't take "shortcuts" at all. Just because you can point out a couple of bugs in Opera doesn't mean that your flawed analysis is correct.
You clearly know nothing about Opera, but are rather busy trying to defend Mozilla's performance problems compared to Opera.
If HDCP compliant equipment can reconize the watermarks, then a ripper program can be made to do the same, and remove them.
"But everyone has broadband or at least an Internet connection, blah blah". No, they don't. And what if the servers are down?
Indeed, you can read more about Opera Software's position on software patents. Opera is against software patents.
No, Firefox gets it wrong unfortunately. Firefox is a nice browser, but its CSS doesn't quite reach Opera's level of excellence.
Funny that you should mention positioning, seeing as this is exactly one of the things Firefox sucks at compared to Opera 8. And positioned generated content... Ouch, it is painful to even think about Firefox's implementation.
Opera 9 obviously improves on Opera's CSS support. I never said it was perfect (neither is Firefox's - by far). But Opera 8 already has better CSS support than Firefox.
You can find "Flashblock" for Opera too.