Moving to Opera from Firefox

A colleague recommended Opera over Firefox. The main reason for me to switch was the built-in bookmark synchronization and mouse gestures. And they are truly great.

But…

I have quite a lot of problems with Opera, some of them very surprising.

Some WYSIWYG editors don’t work well, or at all
When the focus is on a checkbox in a form, pressing enter checks/unchecks instead of sending the form
No RikaiChan plugin
No Live Bookmarks

That said, if the bookmark synchronization works without problems as expected, I’ll probably still stick with Opera, as that is huge to me.

Moving to Opera from Firefox —12 May 2010