* Posts by Rafael L

63 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Nov 2010

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Opera founder von Tetzchner: It's all gone to crap since I quit

Rafael L

Re: Almost done with Opera

So they support minorities with Turbo/Off-road but don't support minorities at the same time (Linux AT THE MOMENT) and the conclusion is: "Opera changed they ignore minorities completely!1!!!!!111" ?????

Rafael L

Re: Sad but true.

Funny, WebKit was unique to Apple Safari, then Chrome came using it (= not unique) and was highly successful. Your theory is simply dumb and nothing more.

Rafael L

"You need to have something unique and different - and Opera had that. It had all those deals on TVs and embedded. (...)"

They still have it and make new ones, just look at their news posted at opera.com. And no that didn't make the user growth skyrocket.

"When I quit we had 60m desktop users and were on a nice growth path. We'd have blown through 100m by this time if we'd improved on the browser. Now it's down to 50m and most people are still on [the Presto-based] Opera 12."

He seem to have forgot to check that the users loss all happened in the Presto era. There's a downfall since around Opera 12.0 and since Blink Opera appeared the downfall is not as big as before. In the latest they lost only 1 million users, that's compared to a lot more: kind of about 5 million in every previous quarters.

Day 11 of this month the Q4 financial report will be released with the newest number of users so we will be able to talk more about that later...

Rafael L

Re: Opera Classic for android..

And you can place the buttons at the bottom, just look at the goddamn settings!

Rafael L

Re: Vivaldi.net

The FORUMS are NOT shutting down, only My Opera social network / mailing part. Get your facts right.

Rafael L

Re: Linux support

There are answers about Linux and you know that.

Facebook app now reads your smartphone's text messages? THE TRUTH

Rafael L

Re: Lazy people to blame, as usual

I partly agree but it's not only because of lazy people. Not everyone is very good with technology, that said I'm sure some people are unable to easily confirm their account using a code in a SMS. Facebook doing it automatically for them is very welcome.

ANYONE on Google+ can now email you, with or without your Gmail addy

Rafael L

Hahaha, put + on+ every+ word+ new reg meme just! like! Yahoo!.

GIMP flees SourceForge over dodgy ads and installer

Rafael L

Re: @Rafael

I have nothing against ad-supported software but when sites host someone else's app and insert these kinds of download buttons it's not fair.

Rafael L

Amazing! I wish all app developers would do this.

REJOICE! Windows 7 users can get IE11 ... soon they'll have NO choice

Rafael L

Why should we reply when you didn't even care to test the latest version before it, IE 10?

Nokia wins UK patent spat: Quick, let's boot HTC One out of Blighty

Rafael L

Re: Close to a final nail in the coffin?

They aren't slow with updates look it up.

Rafael L

Re: Conflicted here

Nokia has been trying to take HTC products down for some time. Multiple legal processes clearly started before Microsoft bought them.

Nokia plays dirty.

'It's a joke!' ... Bill Gates slams Mark Zuckerberg's web-for-the-poor dream

Rafael L

Re: I'm Bill Gates...

But money isn't infinite, you have to pick one.

It's NOT an iPad - but that's FINE: I learned to LOVE Microsoft's Surface 2

Rafael L

I wish the author would tell us more about how many USB ports he has on his iPad and how many x86 apps he is running on it.

HTC chief exec to focus on designing new mobes, sticks Wang in sales etc

Rafael L

Re: Another happy HTC customer here

Because Samsung is doing very bad by launching Galaxy Aces, Young, Pocket, NEX and the likes right?

Android's defences against malicious apps dissed by security bods

Rafael L

Re: Weak troll is weak.

Who said Google isn't doing the same?

Former Nokia boss Ollila: Stephen Elop was second-choice CEO

Rafael L

This article is ridiculous

I'll summarize it: Former CEO couldn't make a better job, then criticizes the CEO that came after him.

"We were not successful in using Microsoft's operating system" - according to who I ask? They got double-digit market share of WP right now. Nokia is the top WP brand.

Windows XP folks: At least GOOGLE still loves you ... UNTIL 2015

Rafael L

6 years*

Rafael L

"Microsoft may not love you, but Google does"

Except Microsoft is giving support for a 11 years old system, Google Chrome doesn't event exists for 8 years alone.

Opera unveils iPad-only browser

Rafael L

Perhaps the recent pages button works? Have you actually tried it?

Sexy models clash at big bash over catty tweets: Yup, it's HTC v Samsung

Rafael L

At least

Still a better love story than Twilight.

Google slides its soft finger-fondling into any willing Android doodad

Rafael L

Apparently no tap and hold for symbols... HTC keyboard remains better.

BT! dumps! Yahoo! after! 10! long! years! together!

Rafael L
FAIL

What the hell is BT?

Yahoo 'won't screw Tumblr'? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet

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Thumb Down

Now you're kidding right?

When was it the last time you used Yahoo! Mail? It has been the fastest loading major web-mail for some time now and the latest updates are making it even faster...

Yahoo! May! Buy! Tumblr! For! One! BEELLION! Bucks!

Rafael L

Re: Where does Yahoo! Get their cash supply from?

Guess what? Yahoo! is still the 1st/2nd/3rd most visited website in the world friend...

Rafael L
WTF?

Re: It's sad, really.

What exactly is broken?

Report: AT&T dropping Facebook phone after dismal sales

Rafael L

Re: Shame

It seems the phone which gives more commission wins now. :(

'Hotmail, since you changed to Outlook, you've been a massive pr**k'

Rafael L
FAIL

Re: Interesting...

The people here didn't talk anything with sense. That's why we're downvoting. No one here mentioned a thing that makes Outlook.com worse than Hotmail, other than personal-opinion-nitpicking aesthetics.

All I know is it's faster and cleaner than Hotmail on the desktop and the mobile web version works fine in Opera Mobile in my Android, with JavaScript and all. Much better than the lame ".mobi" era GMail UI Google give us if you ask.

My primary e-mail is Yahoo! anyway. Yahoo! knows how to make e-mail accessible in any device. While GMail had a poor UI on mobile for years we could open full e-mails with all the formatting in a new page or in txt format in Yahoo! Mail mobile, all the functions were there and navigation between the messages has aways been better with shortcuts in all the places you'd expect to have them, and now we have apps in almost every platform.

Microsoft: All RIGHT, you can have your Start button back

Rafael L
Mushroom

Windows 8 Start Screen haters

TAKE THAT

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/11/reflecting-on-your-comments-on-the-start-screen.aspx

Windows 8 has put the world's PC market to sleep - IDC

Rafael L
Stop

So

Are Mac or Linux sales any better?

Firefox: Use new stealth window to satisfy your wife, suggests Mozilla

Rafael L
FAIL

Re: Really?

YEAH you're like 100% of internet population... Using a proxy with wildcards!

Review: Sony Xperia Z

Rafael L
Meh

Well the review lacks some software. There are pop-up "mini apps" you can launch from the tasks screen, it's interesting...

I don't mind the viewing angles as I'd be looking at the front of the screen when using a phone, never from the side. :P

Redmond to skip Patch Tuesday for Windows Store apps

Rafael L

So what? Windows Store still don't update them automatically, only the automatic download is allowed. :(

Browser makers open local storage hole in HTML5

Rafael L
Alert

What's the Opera result again?

HTC share zoom prior to Apple peace pact under investigation

Rafael L

Maybe people trust in HTC DROID DNA?

Facebook Phone rumours are back: And probably true this time

Rafael L
Mushroom

Naysayers are annoying... You really expect no success for a FACEBOOK PHONE?

People wants it. This will "sell rivers" here in Brazil with the right price...

Rafael L

A bit like Web standards?

N00bs vs Windows 8: We lock six people in a room with new OS

Rafael L
Stop

Re: Windows® 8™ TIFKAM™

Guidelines... Funny... Pay attention: who created them?

Humans, and now humans they're creating new guidelines that oppose the previous, what's the problem?

It's time to break the current guidelines and go for the better. This test was biased because all of the users were Mac OS / Windows users before. Now take the time to analyze the benefits of Windows 8 to people who never used a single software in their lives: would it be considered better or worse than Windows 7? What's would these people call the effect of hiding things in corners if they don't even know what these things do or were called before...?

Will Alt + TAB be considered against the guidelines now? It's not obvious nor recognizable. The keys don't show at any moment they effect nor anything at the screen yet people use it. Everyone will be pleased all this stuff isn't in the screen all at once and will learn that they must go to the corner they want for task switching and menus.

Stop comparing the current experience and the new one like the current experience didn't has any learning curve.

Chrome is the most secured browser - new study

Rafael L
FAIL

You mean *third-party* ad blockers and a thing that make Websites useless (no JS!?)...

Opera spruces up email client in 11.60 browser cut

Rafael L
Stop

Fx doesn't have Speed Dial.

Opera updates Jesus phone, BlackBerry browser versions

Rafael L
Happy

Actually there were many updates last weeks, but for Android and Java.

Opera Software is aiming primary on Android, who wouldn't do it when it's the most used platform and growing? And Opera is losing ground to WebKit (Android stock browser, Safari, other alternatives) so they really need to do this.

And they did, very well. And now the updates are available to the rest of the market. Not that Opera don't value them, it's just that we users need to understand the things a company must do to continue to exist being profitable, which may be a delay for the product on our platform. That's ok. It's free!

Sneak peek: Revamped Opera gets turboboost

Rafael L
Meh

I heard the stock Android browser can only open abour 4 or 8 tabs at once...

Intel extends JavaScript for parallel programming

Rafael L
Thumb Down

You're confusing open-source and standards? Just because they opened the source code it doesn't make them any better than Google's Dart project. For me, for now, it's just another browser-based technology. In the future, if it becomes a standard, then we'll see. Also, more things would stop it from becoming a standard, it must be measured how much good it'd be for the Web and if it wouldn't favor Intel chips, and we don't have that information.

Mozilla strokes coders with Firefox 6

Rafael L
Megaphone

"Didn't Firefox used to be a small, fast running browser"

I don't remember this.

Android app logs keystrokes using phone movements

Rafael L
Happy

This is...

Scary and brilliant!

It's official: IE users are dumb as a bag of hammers

Rafael L
Stop

No.

The research is IQ test -> possibility to use the browser x, not "use browser x" -> have more IQ...

Opera rolls new Mini onto iPhone and iPad

Rafael L
Happy

Exactly

The zoom system has been updated in this version, test it.

Microsoft breaks own world record for IE nonsense

Rafael L
Gates Halo

Just remind me of this!

Actually, MS is doing the right thing on their direction.

http://www.osnews.com/story/23876/Why_the_OS_Matters/

Firefox 4 squeezes onto phones

Rafael L
Happy

I hear about it a lot... In comments.

Dolphin HD seems to be a great browser. I'd love to compare it to Opera if I had a smartphone.

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