Opera had this feature where it knew what the next page for stuff was, and other things. Not sure if it was a rel link or just some clever heuristics. But browsing BB forums with mouse gestures one felt like a God in how one could move around. Next post, next page, next topic without clicking anything.
replyThat was heuristics. It looked for the text "more" or "next" or "->" within an anchor tag. Sometimes it would be fooled if a forum thread or other link had a title containing one of those words.
replyHeurisrics augmenting a (half-)standard[1,2,3] that, in a more idealistic time, some people cared enough to follow: <link rel="prev"> et al.
reply[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
[2] https://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values#HTML5_link...
[3] https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relatio...
If you use an extension like vimium, you get this by using the standard [[ and ]] vim motions for this.
replyAlso, using the keyboard for navigation, while it sounds like a chore, is really quite excellent, and I prefer it to the mouse, as crazy as that might sound.
I don't disagree, but I haven't used a traditional mouse in years. I have a rollermouse, so it's just a bar just below the space bar, which I can reach with my thumbs without moving my hands from home row!
replyI used Opera so much around 2000. Small things like the X-Z shortcuts and the sheer speed blew me away.
replyOpera was by far the best browser for a while for sure. Sad they couldn't keep up :/
replyThose gestures have been permanently tattooed into my brain and muscle memory. So much so that I’ve set Gesturefy on Firefox to mimic the same ones from the old Opera browser.
replyMouse gestures, download manager, pop-up blocker, TABS in windows 98.
replyAges ahead of other browsers.
I don't have much to contribute other than HI AL from the MORNING CREW!
replyYeah, I had the same experience with mouse-gestures. I think a lot of the pressure was removed by the rise in consumer mice with "back" thumb-buttons.
replyOpera 12 was so good, so fast, on ANY hardware, so innovative, so quirky. When Opera became Chrome-based, I moved to Firefox. I just don’t want Google spyware on my computer.
replyIt's based on Chromium, not Chrome.
replyOpera is called Vivaldi now.
replyWhich is a chrome reskin too.
replyReskin isn't quite right. Vivaldi offers a ton of amazing features that Chrome would never dream of having. For example, tab tiling is excellent and criminally underused.
replyIt's a cool idea, but major bugs are being introduced and then ignored. Virtually unusable and I would not recommend it.
replyNot my experience with Vivaldi even remotely.
replyI literally can't function on the web without Vivaldi, for me it's the only usable desktop browser. What problems have you encountered?
replySwitching tabs doesn't work like you would expect in Opera for example. The order of tabs gets shuffled randomly. It's completely broken. I downgraded to a version where it had worked, stuck with that for a while. When I complained about it people usually say "just use it like chrome where you can't switch tabs properly anyway lol". It was reported with the precise version that broke it. Vivaldi team asked maybe twice on social media, but then it was just tumbleweeds. It's 100% reproducible with a clean install, on both windows and osx. I gave up and preach for people to just stay away from that browser.
replyIs this what you're talking about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1XoTNV1qFY
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