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Opera & Chrome, where is the difference?

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Chrome and Opera. Nowadays very similiar browsers. Wich one use for best support of W3C specification and for speed of browsing the internet? Why is Opera more cool than Chrome and why is Chrome more popular than Opera?

 

Did you ever think about differences between Opera with Blink and Chrome with Blink? Same core, same options.. they are a lot alike so why use Opera when Chrome is original product of creator of the core Blink. Blink was previously only a fork of Apples Webkit but Google add a lot of things to it. Google contributed much to Webkit before Blink. Actually, the progress of developement of Webkit is really slow now when Google has their own core and leave Webkit at it is. Apple did more than only this mistake for example dissolution of Safari for Windows. A lot of web developers now didn't optimise their webpages for Safari because they doesn't want to buy Mac just for optimise their work. however Safari support for W3C is cool so their work work in most cases just fine. But Apple.. this was really rude.

 

So what's different between Opera and Chrome? The first and most important thing is speed. Chrome was known as really fast browser and it was true. At the begining Chrome was really the fastest browser but Google it messed up. Google add a lot of functions that normal user never use (like sending literally everything you do for "better advertising") and it only slow down the browser and whole computer. Opera is builded on the same core as Chrome but Opera is much faster and support everything that support Chrome so that's why Opera is much cooler. Second thing is how Opera looks. I think the latest opera looks really cool. Sharp corners are nowadays really popular and in my opinion it looks really good and the interface is really nice done.

 

But why is Chrome so popular when even IE is now faster than it? It's advertising? Or users really need functions in it? I think users move to Chrome in the begining and now they are accustomed on that interface, settings, bookmarks, etc. It's hard to move from Chrome to other browsers because on Chrome you have everything and most users think that Chrome is still fastest browser so they just doesn't want to move. You can do better with other browsers but why when Chrome offers everything you need?

 

However Opera with Blink is just starting from begining. I hope that they will go straight to bring the comfortable way to browse the internet.

 

PS: I like Chrome really much but my computer was with it really slow. That's why i wrote this article and move to Opera.