My Opera 10.10 configuration is very stripped down, minimalist and space efficient. I’ve been using Opera since version 2 back in the mid 90s, and I’ve generally just upgraded when a new version has come out, always using the Windows Native skin and keeping my custom configuration. It’s enough to make a big difference to my browsing experience.Īs for the UI, to be honest I don’t think I’ve ever seen the default Opera 10.10 UI configuration to be able to comment on it. Opera 10.10 has some really nice features that make it the most efficient browser for that kind of use, while 10.5’s annoyances and bugs cause a lot of headaches with heavy browsing. Whether I’m researching a topic, or shopping for something, I want to be able to manage multiple tabs, organise them efficiently, and find and compare particular tabs quickly. I tend to browse with a lot of tabs open. I can see how different usage would make a very big difference to browser preferences. I just don’t use their features other enough, and browsing through them when I look for something dead simple is just overkill. ![]() IE and previous releases of Opera, on the other hand, don’t get it with their heavily loaded “engineer-friendly” interface. Firefox, Chrome, and Safari got it right too. The UI of the newest Opera suits my web browsing needs pretty well. Proper use of hierarchy and short labels should make me read the possible choices fast, choose fast, and go the the next part fast. Organization must hence be straightforward, allowing me to quickly find what I’m looking for. When I do open a menu, on the other hand, I’m looking for a specific thing. Nothing to clutter my precious screen estate. For those which I turn out to use more often, I tolerate an icon. If I want to use an advanced feature, I’ll just look for it in the menus. I want the browser to disappear when I do that. Find a website, explore it, go to another one, having several tabs open when I browse several things in parallel, like when I’ve several news to read on OSnews as an example. Sure, I sometimes like to use more advanced features of the browser, in specific cases, but most of the times I just use it to browse the web. My vision of a web browser is that it’s essentially an easily replaceable tool which is used to browse a much more interesting object called the Web. You’re right, I should have clarified what I call a nice UI. To me the UI of 10.10 was the best around, near perfect with a few tweaks, while 10.5 is a huge step backwards in nearly every way. Funny, for me it’s the complete opposite.
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