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BECAUSE OTHERWISE WE COULDN'T HEAR EACH OTHER OVER THE SOUND OF OPERA BEING AWESOME.

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Opera is not the only browser to come up with new ideas, but it is true that we're certainly not last on that respect. People copying what we did is just pleasing, as it shows we were right all along. Now, if they go along and pretend they invented something we've been doing for a while, it can be a bit annoying. For instance, when you are in a project maintaining a full web browser for mobile phones released a somewhere in 2003, and The Steve goes on stage and announces the iPhone, just like any other geek, you're excited, and a bit more so because of what it means for the field you are working in. But then he goes on to says it is the first time in the history of mankind that you can browse the web for you phone or something like that. Yeah, right.

I guess this just means we need to get better at marketing, so that everybody knows us and what we did.

But for the actual feature copying, no, that's fine. Probably even good then. That's the way to move forward. Someone comes up with an idea, someone else implements it better, the first goes back to work and makes it even better, picking up some more ideas from the other guy along the way...

Think for a second how bad web browsers would be if everybody hadn't copied from everyone else for the last 15 years.

Polish Vodka.

For whatever reason, if being able to control your browser with one hand matters to you, you can also to that fairly easily from the keyboard.

If you go to Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts, you can check "Enable single key shortcuts". Then Opera becomes more awesome than usual. For instance, you can switch to the previous / next tab by pressing 1 / 2

Then you can browse reddit while drinking tea without letting go of your cup, and look like a gentleman and a scholar.