I really liked Opera for a long time. It has a lot of features like the built in session manager, a nice tab switcher (ctrl-tab with a list like in Visual Studio), tab grouping, mouse gestures… and nice advanced settings (besides opera:config).

And they figured out text selection in links ages ago, that Firefox, IE11, Chrome still does not handle right. In Opera you just select the text without any care in the world (click, move mouse left or right, it is really that easy). If you want to drag the link, which all the other browsers do by default, you just have to start dragging up or down (click, move mouse up or down). You don’t have to touch your keyboard, install extensions or position your mouse pixel perfect to do a simple selection.
select text in link firefox
select text in link chrome

But somewhere in the 12.x line they got in a memory leak. 🙁


(I have no extensions installed, plugins are disabled. Only Java Scripts are enabled. It might be an aggressive caching issue, but It consumes way to much memory way too fast even when the browser is not touched at all…)

RIP Opera Browser ~1996 to July 2, 2013

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