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by dezzeus 3628 days ago
> [...] it also has mouse gestures that are core in the browser [...]

> It has one-button keyboard shortcuts [...]

> I can configure activation, deactivation of js, plugins (flash, etc.) [...] I can tell plugins like flash to load on demand [...]

> I can have a vertical tab bar and a horizontal one at the same time.

All of this is still here.

> [...] I have 100+ tabs open and the thing sits at 2 GB [...]

I'm not used to leave opened such a large number of tabs, but even today's Opera seems to handle them quite good (I may be wrong, but I think that Chromium smartly remove some tabs from memory and reload them later, on demand and with cache).

> A very powerful url blocker [...]

If you really need this, I think that /etc/hosts is the way.

> I can actually manually edit menu and toolbar ini files [...]

> I can add custom panels in the side panel [...]

> I can open a list of all links on the current page, filter it by various conditions, select the ones i want and hit "download these to a folder" in one action.

Perhaps extensions (which I do not use) are designed to simplify and customize the process...

> I can edit text-based style [...] to completely restyle the browser effortlessly.

Not really a feature, but a "nice to have". As for myself, I'm ok with the OS-native look.

> Getting to the screen where i can view and edit cookies [...]

> I can disable all CSS for the active page with one click.

I think that you can achieve the same result from the Inspector with a couple of more clicks (that's not a behavior that most users need).

:)

2 comments

So lots of additional work to somewhat almost maybe restore the functionality that had been there already in the first place.
Not gonna bother to answer in detail because you are not worth the time, but you're making assumptions without actually knowing how the features work, and you're quite wrong in your assumptions.
I was just trying to mitigate your disappointment ;)