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Comment · 13 years ago
They should have just named it "<New Browser Name>" by Opera. It would set the expectations right. When its the same name and a higher version number with most of the features missing it just alienates the existing users.

This would give time to add new features to the new browser while keeping the existing users happy with what they already have. The existing users would not crib about missing that one obscure feature that no one else uses.

In the current scenario the power users who normally jump to the next version end up missing the features they are used to. The best example in this case would be Phoenix/Firefox which rose from the ashes of Mozilla Suite. The stripped out all the fat and made a lean browser. What happened to Firefox after version 4 is another story.

Comment · 13 years ago
Yes Opera Mobile has the turbo mode which is similar to this technology http://www.opera.com/turbo where it proxies the connection and compresses the data.

Opera Mini on the other hand uses OBML http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-binary-markup-langu... which is an entirely different thing.

Comment · 14 years ago
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Comment · 14 years ago
What if I send it over https https://foo:[email protected]/basic-auth/foo? I don't think it should be insecure in this case.
Comment · 14 years ago
Nibbles and Gorillas was the first piece of code that I saw and was amazed how it worked. It taught me why we need to use functions and subs. And as a 13 year old it was fascinating to understand those concepts.

And most of the programming I learnt was from the snippets of code in the QBasic help files.

Comment · 14 years ago
QBasic on a 80386 and I was 13 when I started.
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Comment · 15 years ago
http://pics.fefoo.com/

I had made something similar a while back.

Comment · 15 years ago
The only problem I see with lenses is the constant cleaning and the extra care that they require.
Comment · 15 years ago
Even I was suffering from headaches for a few months and then I went to the optician and was prescribed to wear glasses.

Am still trying to get used to wearing them. And the first time I wore my glasses everything seemed so much clearer.

Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
Where is it located in India?

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