I love the Opera browser!

also i have since discovered that you can have a search window in the address bar, which does tons of diff searches besides google. plus cool shortcuts that you can type into the address window.

the big problem with not using i.e. is that some websites aren't made to work that great with netscape etc. but i still love this program, nobody else seems to :`(

the main problem i have with i.e. is that it freezes on me a LOT. i'd say at least 1 in 10 links i click on freeze it up and i'll have to press stop and try again. if you like it, hey... the freeze is the main thing that stops me from using it regularly, but there are certain sites i have to use i.e. for.

you are def. right about having windows within opera - saves major clutter in the taskbar. that's one of the reasons i'm happy to have the opera email client working, its just one less thing in the taskbar now.

you can set preferences to refuse popups altogether, i just turn them on whenever i get to a site that uses them for content.

overall, opera is much more customizable

boxcubed, what do you mean tabs?? if you have opera set to 'open windows inside opera' it sort of has it's own taskbar with a button for each open window so you can click between them.

hope that is what yr asking about?

shift+f2+start typing the name of the bookmark. it will jump as soon as it has a distinct name (in other words, it will jump to "ile" as soon as you hit the "e" if you also had an "ilm" bookmark)

Enter a Web page address to go to
F2

Quick entry of nickname of a bookmark
Shift + F2

i had been assuming that opera worked basically the same as netscape in terms of how it deals with code, since it is built around netscape. apparently this is not so, norman??

Mozilla as it is today was rewritten from scratch, AFAIK.

yeah, andrew is right about defining custom searches in i.e. too

displays entire page before images are loaded (opera 6 didn't do this)

improved hotlist includes tabs for downloads, history and windows, as well as email, contacts, bookmarks like b4

option to only display REQUESTED pop-ups, instead of blocking all

single clicking to open folders in hotlist (fuckers need to make the bookmarks LINKS so you singleclick the actual bookmarks!)

stupid things: address bar is a rather dark blue, god knows why. makes it difficult to read. the scroll button on the mouse is not working. hopefully will be resolved in final release

looking like my purchase of opera6 will not entitle me to free upgrade to 7. fux0rs. hopefully i'm wrong

thus continues the saga of ron loving opera. hey, all you mac people get to be excited about safari, i gotta have something too

plus phoenix is totally open source and totally free.

cool new features i have discovered since last time: adding panels to the hotlist, i have ones for bbc and cnn now

oh and i want to try this wand tool, which organizes yr passwords

http://opera.com/free/

Chris, do you mean nobody when you have niemand in your email address?

I think the compatibility problem was one of the major things that caused me to switch to Firefox. Now, the only times I have to use IE are when I need to check out Windows Update. Also, Opera still doesn't have an ad blocker, right?

Got sick of Firefox (good features but sluggish and resource hogging). Tried Safari v2 and it wasn't much better on the sluggishness front and didn't do things that Firefox did (esp. crap on download location flexiblity). Tried Shiira and it was nice but rendered character sets wrong.

Tried Opera 9 and was *amazed* at how much faster it rendered pages. Also, big bugbear with other browsers is the scrollwheel behaviour when running through long (and image-heavy) pages, esp. when not fully loaded. Opera is much better for this - I think the scrolling speeds up, like an iPod scrollwheel, if you keep on doing it. Something like that anyway - it just works much better.

After some fiddling around with skins and toolbar positioning (Opera has the nastiest, least intuitive and least Mac-like preferences system I've ever come across) I think I'm finally happy with my browser.

Anyway, here's how mine ended up (again, not maximised):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/Picture1.png

But you can completely change the elements that are on each bar, thus effectively doing the same thing. So I selected the main bar, stripped out what I didn't want, went to the "buttons" tab and chose all the navigation buttons I wanted plus the URL bar to go on there. And so on.

It's a dog to customise. But I finally got there and it seems worth it.

This is true. I've been using it because its CSS renders a lot like IE for PC (or it seems to be mental in similar ways) and am getting to quite like it.

http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/keyboard/
The keyboard shortcuts are great as well. Shift+X on a Google results page takes you to the next page of results. And finally Full Screen mode that works on a Mac.

Man, my Friday nights after late shift sure do rock.

When did Opera go cocoa? I only recently noticed that I can drag its titlebar thru the dock.

I've had Opera for a while, but I only made the plunge and "switched to default browser" today after getting some hlep setting crap up. most of the firefox add-ons i use said "this is to emulate _____ from opera" so i figured, why not?

so far, AWESOME.

anyone know how to make the mouse wheel less... err, floaty, though?

rather, the mouse wheel scrolling. when i scroll it up/down there's this sloppy floaty feeling that firefox didn't have. i think IE has it too.

never mind, got it! prefs -> advanced -> brosing -> smooth scrolling

I hate smooth scrolling with a passion. I even turn it off when using a public computer.

I can't believe I haven't posted to this thread under one alias or another, but I'm a diehard fan. I use it to surf at work with images and styling turned off (looks at a glance like a Word document or something else Important - I work in a fishbowl full of investigators and have never been found out in these last 5 years). I use it at home with images and styling on and it's still awesome.

I can also get here anytime I want by typing x ilx into the URL bar and being taken to the Google results page (ILX is I believe second result, grr..)

That's g ilx actually

Stating the obvious, but...

1 April 2009

http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2009/09/16/opera-mini-5-beta !

Recently upgraded to 10.51, which I think is still the newest version, and been having a boatload of problems. (Plus I don't really like the no-menus, no-titlebar layout, but apparently you can turn them back on, but eh.)

Problems I am having:
- some pages (including Google, irritatingly) won't load even after multiple reloads - they say Document: 0B forever, or some of them get partway through loading elements but never display
- ctrl-tab popup is not disappearing about half the time; you can click on the page underneath to make it disappear, but this seems to be one of the triggers for:
- the whole thing keeps freezing or becoming very slow
- when it gets slow, scrolling with the keyboard goes completely crazy, like down or pgdn will scroll by a completely random amount (if at all) or even go in the other direction

Anyone else?
(I would look at their forums or log a bug report, except funnily enough the Opera site is one of the ones I can't look at. Ha...)

OK, my work copy of Opera is doing this too now. I can reach the Opera forums from here, and the first several pages are full of complaints about 10.5 and 10.51, all being replied to by some guy with 850 Opera forum posts going "it is fine for me and you have fewer posts than me, therefore you are wrong".

Apparently if I delete my profile and reinstall it "might" work "better". Trying that later once I've summoned the energy to export all my bookmarks.

opera 11 seems pretty silly. stacked tabs? whatever.

updated opera and now the main text body font has turned into this ugly fat blocky bold style. gmail and fbook are a horror to look at, mega annoying as i use firefox as my main and opera in the background with my alt email and fbook accounts so i can check easily. had a quick look at how to fix this but no joy. one of those things that isn't catastrophic but is grrrr

New(?) thing that is so much fun - On the fly webpage modification: This might not seem to be a very useful feature, but it is fun. Plus it is unique to Opera; no other browser allows you to do this. You can open the source of any webpage, make changes and hit apply changes. The changes will show up in the original webpage (the modification will take place only on your PC, not the source page on the server). (http://digitalsheets.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/6-reasons-why-opera-should-be-your-default-browser/)

xp to NI - my font didn't change at ll with upgrade; very weird!

we use this browser on the public computers at my work and no one seems to know why

because it's AWESOME! IT fanboy I suspect?

ha it confuses all of our users "...opera?"

i think it was initially used because it was easier to block outside websites (don't want users accessing the general internet from these computers, just our databases) but it was done before our current IT guy came in and there were no instructions left for how to adjust these settings and he doesn't really know opera so it's kind of a mess.

oh dear. I always install Opera at work because it's less likely to be checked to see if I am surfing the web ;D Also at my old job it was really handy because I could disable styling and surf the internet in the middle of the office without anyone knowing.

love opera mini.

Thought this was going to be some missthreaded love for the OPERA accelerator.

So the old Opera was crashing more than once an hour for me. I upgraded to the new Chromium version, and... it's pretty good! Splitting bookmarks into Speed Dial and Stash was a very clever design decision. I never used Speed Dial in the earlier versions, but maybe I should have.

Still haven't figured out how to create custom searches, although my old ones got imported over. This is a feature I need.