Ok... The Hockey Stick didn't predict anything. It showed past temperatures. So I guess that shows just how credible your claims are in general, eh?

Actually, you made the assertion. I merely contradicted your assertion.

Opera never copied Firefox's tab model. It added an option between behaving the standard MDI way, or behaving the way other tabbed browsers did. Of course, later they merged the two, giving people the best of both worlds. Firefox copied other tabbed browsers.

You are just trolling about Opera, so I decided to set the record straight.

If nothing is done then all of the US will look like Dearborn, Michigan (where the local corrupt cops essentially enforce Sharia restrictions on Constitutional First Amendment Free Speech by making up bogus charges

Man, this has me conflicted. A bunch of crazy Christians fighting with a bunch of crazy Muslims! I can't stand either of them. Did those Christians really have to walk in there and be annoying? And yet, those security guards and their other friends had no right to harass those Christians, annoying as they obviously were.

And holy crap, that tail of security people towards the end was pretty hilarious! Did they have nothing better to do than to gang up on those annoying Christians? How many Muslim security guards does it take to escort a couple of annoying Christians off the property?

Wait... was this public property or private?

Now that Obama installed the Muslim Brotherhod

Huh?

You are not a god who represents everyone else. Your opinions are not global. Your opinions are yours. I explained how I think your opinions are false. I pointed out that Opera actually did MDI right.

Also, Opera is not tiny. It has more than 300 million users, and is quite big in parts of the world. It's always been one of the top 2 or 3 browsers in Russia and former USSR states, for example.

What's been holding Opera back is that it's been ignored and blocked by sites, causing stuff to break. This makes it harder to retain users.

But it did retain tens of millions of users because of the excellent usability features, such as tabbed browsing done right.

Actually, Opera did tabs right. They had proper MDI, while Firefox just had inflexible tabs. Opera didn't copy Firefox. They just changed the way they did MDI, but it was still proper MDI.

Opera also did proper popup blocking befire Firefox came around and copied it.

Opera also did proper fit to width, while Firefox didn't have anything like that. And yes, they did do the zoom and fit to width methods you see on phones today. They did it with the Wii browser, which came out before the iPhone, and they did it with Opera Mini.

So as you can see, your version of history is false.

Actually, if Opera is Google's bitch now, it's less so than ever. Opera is getting more and more revenue from other sources than Google, and is probably more independent from Google financially than ever before.

How are they depending on Google for the browser? They are basically letting Google do the ground work, and doing the easy and fun part on top of that. Seems like a win-win situation to Opera.

How do you know that the UI will just be "slightly different"?

How have they yielded any authority in the standards process? Have they been blocked from the W3C?

Focus on the boring bits? Quite the opposite. Now they'll have time to do more cool stuff instead of always catching up with the other ones.