gautam_chandna

We don't talk about Opera at parties. If someone does talk about work, we tap our watch and remind them of the "5 minute rule". They have 5 minutes to wrap up work talk and get back in party-mode!

Though if I was asked this question at a party, I'd have to say my personal favorites are: mouse-gestures, speed-dial, wand, m2 and irc. Since not everyone likes the same features, I'd probably be boasting to people similar to myself, and annoying the rest...

• edit: I accidentally a whole word.

You have to be on the look out for such things, they can't always be said out loud... ;-)

What extensions are you kicking-off with?

A Reddit extension, and then we got caught up using it and haven't made any since... just kidding, we've looked through the top extensions, the architecture we're going for and have devised a small set that will be supporting any release we make.

When?

soon :-)

Why?

Because it's a natural move from our existing customization options, merging into the W3C widget packaging format, allowing more than Opera internals to work with the browser. Widgets are meant to enhance you experience outside the browser, Extensions do it inside.

How compatible/portable will Opera be with Firefox extensions? (sort of like userJS and Greasemonkey)

• userJS/greaseMonkey, Yes.
• FF extensions, No. They're too powerful.

In your tests how do extensions affect the total performance of Opera?

So far, we're not finding too many problems since they are HTML5, CSS, Javascript based W3C widget packages. With a fast engine, it all seems to run pretty smoothly. Though it really will depend on how people end up using the APIs.

If someone chooses to XHR content with a tiny timeInterval and runs massive scripts in inefficient ways - and still manages to hit the top of the downloads list, it will get slow. Very unlikely, but possible. We'll have a moderation system in place, will assist developers in fixing their code.

Can we get an exclusive reddit glimpse of the reddit extension (or any other exclusive screenshot iis fine)?

Here are some screenshots

Server-side event - how do they work? Get we get some examples (with code)

I'm not sure if this server sent events article still works, but you could ask Arve. He wrote that one, and is answering questions on reddit today.

On a different note ....

We're working on it.

I guess I should have stated, "We try to not talk about...", at least in the groups I party with :-p

If you visit [chrome://browser/content/browser.xul](chrome://browser/content/browser.xul) in firefox, you'll be able to see your entire browser inside your tab. As an extension, you can modify all of that, including stuff placed by other extensions. It's worked out great for the firefox community, and they've managed to upvote/downvote everything into a manageable set.

Starting out with such great power seems a bit daunting, given our history with simply adding a feature to the native browser rather than writing an extension mechanism for it (so far). We're going with specific use-cases based on the top extensions publicly available so far, and making sure those are or will be possible.