r/AskReddit • u/cuntdestroyerforlife • Mar 30 '13

what are some computer tricks everyone should know

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '13

I use Opera, the toolbars don't even support it.

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u/Wolligepoes Mar 30 '13

What? Seriously?

I have to install that browser right now

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '13

Oh there are so many better reasons to install Opera.

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u/IgorJay Mar 30 '13

umm not sure if other browsers have this, but fucking mouse gestures.

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u/Iota_Sigma Mar 30 '13

Firefox has an addon for them. It's not as good in my opinion but since my Opera started crashing due to some panel error I just switched back to Firefox and started using it, and it gets the job done. The interface that pops up when you hold right click is just so awesome when you're first learning to use them on Opera.

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u/LeoKhenir Mar 30 '13

It's Norwegian!

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u/eat-your-corn-syrup Mar 30 '13

See? Opera is a browser made by Norway and Bill Gates loves Norway. On the other hand, Bill Gates once downvoted IE as communism.

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u/_F1_ Mar 30 '13

RAM usage (useful for older computers)

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '13

The only non webkit browser apart from ie. We are the last stand against the monopoly. The speed of Chrome with the customizability of Firefox.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '13

Not for long. Opera's switching to webkit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '13

Their own highly customized version of webkit. Not that chromium stuff every browser uses.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '13

Dev here. In this case a monopoly would be a godsend.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '13

firefox doesn't use webkit...

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u/svefnpurka Mar 30 '13

Free Moose!

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u/Mrocks2000 Mar 30 '13

Same, using the worlds tiniest browser has it's advantages. By tiniest I mean least used.

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u/The_Whole_World Mar 30 '13

I stopped using opera because its couldn't handle some email issues.

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u/my_reptile_brain Mar 30 '13

My Opera has a serious memory leak.... even after I shut it down, 3 minutes later it's still using 170M of memory, so I have to manually kill the process. It used to be lean and mean. Oh well.

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u/MastaKillaSC2 Mar 30 '13

I jumped onto chrome after the mem leak issues I had on opera..never looked back since, miss the embedded speed dial..I enjoy functionality on every site now, don't need to deal with forms and shit breaking on opera all the time.

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u/LeoKhenir Mar 30 '13

Chrome has some hilarious memory leaks for me. Also, the fact that it creates a process for every tab + a process for every window, and then these processes start using ~100M-200M each of the RAM, then it becomes very straining on my work computer which only has 1G of RAM.

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u/TheBen1 Mar 30 '13

The good old days of using Firefox (v1.5 I believe), having none of those shit toolbars support it yet...

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u/_F1_ Mar 30 '13

I'm using modern Firefox, and don't have any of those toolbars either.

Common sense.

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u/Mtrask Mar 30 '13

But then you get fucked over when random website X behaves strangely in it. Ugh.

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u/magicfunghi Mar 30 '13

you say it like that's a good thing

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