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Current Stable: 10.10 Current Experimental: 10.50 DISABLE INLINE FRAMES IN SITE PREFERENCES TO FIX DOUBLE BACK ISSUES. New Features: * Opera Turbo * Automatic updates * Crash logging * Inline spelling checker * 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test * Significantly improved performance, particularly on CSS/HTML rendering * Opera Mail HTML Compose support * Improved Speed Dial customization * VISUAL TABS * A new, ugly logo * ... and much more! New JS engine just around the corner: quote:Carakan F.A.Q. The latest Opera includes the ability to open mailto: links in webmail providers Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail. Shamelessly stolen from the old OP: quote:Opera 9.51 is a free (closed-source) cross-platform web browser known for its speed, small size and large feature set. It's the latest iteration in the long-running line of the Opera browser, which traces its heritage back to 1994. Opera was one of the first (if not the first) web browsers to support tabs, mouse gestures, history search and many more features which later were co-opted by other browsers. Sounds like bloat, doesn't it? Far from it. Every one of these features can be turned off. Opera's disk footprint is smaller than basic Firefox, it's RAM profile is on par or better than FF3, and it launches and browses faster than anything based on the Gecko engine at the moment. What Opera has going for it is a wide variety of built in features - things you would have to install an extension for in Firefox are part of Opera by default. You can see a small sample above. The other big thing is that Opera includes hundreds of little things that just make it nicer. Rocker gestures to navigate pages, keyboard shortcuts galore. There are many and more, and almost every little bit of it can be customized, from keyboard shortcuts to menus to the icons on the screen. Opera views tabs differently from Firefox - it's much more like Chrome's tabs system. Instead of having the controls at the top and tabs right above the page, each tab becomes like its own little browser. What does this mean? Each tab has its own history and search bar. You can drag and drop tabs between windows. You can even drag a tab into blank desktop space and create a new window from it. Pop ups appear inside of the main Opera window by default, without creating a new entry in your taskbar. Basically, the only part of Chrome's process philosophy Opera lacks is the seperate process bit. Each tab acts as an independent application. It doesn't sound big, but it's one of the changes that can make a big difference. Opera Link and Speed dial are our newest pretties, and they are amazing. Opera Link is a built in syncing function, which will store bookmarks, notes, custom searches and other similar things (except passwords) on the Opera servers. You can access them as an HTML page in any browser if you're away from home, but the real appeal is with Opera obviously. If you're using Opera on any platform, you can Synchronize Opera and it will grab all of this information and store it locally. Including Opera Mobile, so you can manage bookmarks on your home PC and download them all to your phone. Speed Dial is like an Expose'd version of QuickLaunch. That's about the best way I can describe it. What it is is a 3x3(or more!) grid that link to whatever sites you choose. Each shows a snapshot of the page, which can be set to update at different intervals. 1-9 also correspond to ctrl+1-9 on the keyboard shortcuts, allowing for extremely quick browsing to 9 sites. What does this all realisticly mean? Every time you open a new tab, you have a search bar and up to date thumbnails of 9 pages - if you're a compulsive news checker, it's easy to see when a new story has come in. Speed Dial is also synced via Opera Link. Check out http://cybernetnews.com/2008/06/13/helpful-tip-add-more-speed-dials-in-opera-95/ for more than 9. Other things of note: Built in adblocking! Pick a list from http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ in Opera format and you have built in Content Blocking. Built in UserJS! Yes, there are a ton of Greasemonkey scripts. Opera is compatible! Check out http://userjs.org/ for primarily Opera ones, or throw your Greasemonkey scripts in! It's all good! Opera SALR! With the forums containing built-in last read functionality, this is more of an aesthetic script. OP, Mod, Your own, and posts quoting yours will all highlight in different colors. Check it out @ http://junk.ionmine.com/salr2/misc_userjs/saforums-operahighlight.js IEtab for Opera! http://thinkabdul.com/2007/08/13/ie...xplorer-engine/ has the details. DownThemAll! http://www.astrofunk.info/archives/000017.html Keyboard shortcuts galore! http://help.opera.com/Windows/9.62/en/keyboard.html SA Menu! Blue Moonlight posted:Cross-posting this from the old thread. See, you can extend Opera! So get to it. Ask questions or post your favorite hidden feature. Anything awesome can be added to the OP. EVGA Longoria fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Feb 24, 2010 |
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And one more, because the tips will spill over.
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Here is how you add more quick dials. http://cybernetnews.com/2008/06/13/helpful-tip-add-more-speed-dials-in-opera-95/
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LuckyTaikonaut posted:Here is how you add more quick dials. Linked in the SpeedDial discussion.
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Nice job. I'm too lazy to do it myself. Could you linkify "UserJS" with http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/userjs/?
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You can pull anything you want (or link to) my Opera page. Also put the latest version number, 9.62. Is anyone having the double-back issue on the forums anymore, or did they fix that?
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DevastatorIIC posted:You can pull anything you want (or link to) my Opera page. Also put the latest version number, 9.62. It was on my list of things to go through and link to, just had to get back to work before it became a day long project. And I don't think I'm having double back issues, but I never really use back so I couldn't tell you.
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DevastatorIIC posted:You can pull anything you want (or link to) my Opera page.
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oops my bad. Is there a fix for the constant status bar when browsing SA?
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Does anyone know a way to circumvent Opera's proprietary behaviour, when it comes to mail and RSS; i.e.: Is there a way to integrate Gmail (in a non-POP3 manner) and direct me towards my Greader, when I go to RSS feeds - Feedburner ones in particular?
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(replying from the other thread)down1nit posted:There have been some issues still with syncing notes, something to do with timestamps and computer clocks from what I can make out over in Opera land. Best bet is just to make sure Notes is checked under the sync options on both machines (file > Stop Synchronizing... file > Synchronize Opera > Opera Link Options [boy they need to add a sync options section in preferences]), and post on the forums about it. Havaard, the moderator there sometimes says he can get the "server guys" to do a manual check of someone's account to provide insight if things are not going to plan. Thanks, I'll try that out.
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LuckyTaikonaut posted:oops my bad. Is there a fix for the constant status bar when browsing SA? I've never gotten that. Are you sure you aren't just on a page with an image that's slow to load?
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# ? Nov 11, 2008 21:36 |
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Do they have Opera for Windows CE? My PMP uses CE and neither vanilla Opera or Opera Mobile work on it.
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Zuffox posted:Does anyone know a way to circumvent Opera's proprietary behaviour, when it comes to mail and RSS; i.e.: Is there a way to integrate Gmail (in a non-POP3 manner) and direct me towards my Greader, when I go to RSS feeds - Feedburner ones in particular? You can't integrate gmail afaik without an application like Digsby or similar. Never seen RSS set to GReader, probably doable with a UserJS somewhere.
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Shazzner posted:Do they have Opera for Windows CE? My PMP uses CE and neither vanilla Opera or Opera Mobile work on it. Yes. My PNA runs WinCE 5 and the unlock tool for it includes Opera and it runs fine (just a bit slow). Try Opera for Pocket PC or Windows Mobile 5.
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Might want to mention that Opera now has developer tools in the form of Opera Dragonfly (Tools -> Advanced -> Developer Tools). And in case anyone missed this from the last thread: Give feedback on Opera's UI.
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Sergeant Hobo posted:Might want to mention that Opera now has developer tools in the form of Opera Dragonfly (Tools -> Advanced -> Developer Tools). Ctrl + shift + i is a thing of beauty, I just wish dragonfly indexed http headers too.
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Medina posted:Yes. My PNA runs WinCE 5 and the unlock tool for it includes Opera and it runs fine (just a bit slow). Try Opera for Pocket PC or Windows Mobile 5. drat, it installs but when I launch it, it gives me: 'OperaLauncher.exe is not a valid Windows CE application' I heard there is a way to edit something to force it to run, any idea? E: It's a MIPS based device Shazzner fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Nov 12, 2008 |
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Really dumb question, but is Flash support a known issue with 9.6x? I fully switched over to using Opera full time, but watching any full screen video causes Flash to error. It will still play back, but not very smooth. I'm just not sure if its something wrong with my end, or Opera. Also, I hate how it hides the URL bar when its loading a page.
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SecretFire posted:I've never gotten that. Are you sure you aren't just on a page with an image that's slow to load? It does it to me when I have fanboy's adfilter loaded.
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Binge posted:Really dumb question, but is Flash support a known issue with 9.6x? I fully switched over to using Opera full time, but watching any full screen video causes Flash to error. It will still play back, but not very smooth. You can change the progress bar. Go to "Tools > Appearance > Toolbars tab > Progress Bar" and pick one. I like Simple.
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Binge posted:Really dumb question, but is Flash support a known issue with 9.6x? I fully switched over to using Opera full time, but watching any full screen video causes Flash to error. It will still play back, but not very smooth. Make sure you'e got the latest version of Flash 10. Other than that, it might stutter a little bit, but it should be ok. The stuttering is mostly flash being poo poo.
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This is something that's been driving me nuts for a while now. I'm running 9.62 on OSX 10.5.5 Only in opera, sometimes certain images from waffleimages just flat out refuse to load. If I paste the link in safari, loads like a champ. Opera? Nothing. It only occurs with waffleimages. It just sits there and tries to load but never does.
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krylex posted:This is something that's been driving me nuts for a while now. Do you have any of the adblocking stuff in use? I think one of them includes a filter for *ad* which fucks up URLs which happen to contain "ad" in the hash. I don't have a quick solution, but I think that might be the problem.
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Nope. It's odd. A picture that won't load in opera for whatever reason half an hour ago, but would load in safari just fine will now load in opera and some other image from waffleimages has the issue. It's not particular to one server or anything that they use, just images refusing to load at some times and then working fine later. It's the damndest thing. EDIT - since I last updated opera, I've been noticing a lot of threads seem to have an infinite scroll bar. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Nov 12, 2008 |
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krylex posted:EDIT - since I last updated opera, I've been noticing a lot of threads seem to have an infinite scroll bar. Infinite or just really long? It's a forums issue with the new timg code with Opera.
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krylex posted:EDIT - since I last updated opera, I've been noticing a lot of threads seem to have an infinite scroll bar.
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I shouldn't have said infinite. I should have just said excessively long. This thread has one, for example. Also the image in medina's post won't load for me in opera right now. Opened right up in safari, though. EDIT: Testing Ok, it loads fine if I put it in with the img code instead of the timg. So I guess this just is a part of timg being a little borked at the moment. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Nov 12, 2008 |
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I just discovered that it's possible to use site-specific proxy servers. http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/index.dml/tag/override.ini I'm going to use this at work. The old proxy server allows more stuff, and doesn't ask my password 20 times when I start Opera, unlike the new one. But I'm allowed to use YouTube on the new one, so I added an entry on the override to use the new proxy server for that site. It's awesome, no more switching to IE when I want to watch silly videos.
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uXs posted:I just discovered that it's possible to use site-specific proxy servers. I can't get this to work. My override.ini file looks like this: code:
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Wait. Wasn't there a link to two spell checkers before? Have I gone blind?
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er0k posted:I can't get this to work. My override.ini file looks like this: You need a 'youtube.com' (no quotes) line right below the [Overrides] section as well. The .downloaded file does it the same way; a line in the Overrides section, and a section for each override.
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I'm very avidly against bookmarking things, I somewhat blame this on Firefox 3's quick-bar being so fantastic in 3.0. I've been using Opera for about a month now, and the quickbar is horrible. In Firefox I could type in something such as "gmai" and gmail.com would pop up - with Opera, it posts any sort of history/url that had "gmai" in it. So of course, I get all of these random google searches as I typically stay logged in to my gmail account with googling. Is there a fix for this? I'm assuming its a pretty common request but I didn't see it mentioned in this thread.
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bell biv devoe posted:I'm very avidly against bookmarking things That's the stupidest thing I've heard all day, and I got told about a build system that puts anything checked into it live automatically. Use god damned bookmarks, they're there for a reason. If you used bookmarks, they would pop up first and you would never even know the other poo poo was in the list.
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bell biv devoe posted:I'm very avidly against bookmarking things, I somewhat blame this on Firefox 3's quick-bar being so fantastic in 3.0. Preferences -> Advanced -> History and then uncheck the box "Remember Content on Visited Pages". That should decrease the amount of weird hits significantly.
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uXs posted:Preferences -> Advanced -> History and then uncheck the box "Remember Content on Visited Pages". Thanks, that helps quite a bit. And to the OP - I deal with 15k+ servers, I apologize if I've grown accustomed to not having my bookmarks due to curl/wgetting/provisioning the hell out of URLs constantly. You opinion is noted and I will look into becoming a better web-browser. vty fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Nov 13, 2008 |
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bell biv devoe posted:Thanks, that helps quite a bit. It's okay man, Casao is always a little uptight about things, he means well but he's been known to flip out once in a while. Sort of like a kitten who sleeps on your pillow at night, warm, purring and happy... but every once in a while he'll reach up and extend a claw through one of your eyelids and into your eyeball.
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uXs posted:You need a 'youtube.com' (no quotes) line right below the [Overrides] section as well. The .downloaded file does it the same way; a line in the Overrides section, and a section for each override. ah nice, works perfectly now. Thanks
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# ? Nov 13, 2008 18:11 |
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Anyone know if its possible to get onunload and onbeforeunload functions in Opera by any means? Some sites I visit use these JS event handlers legitimately and it's annoying that Opera completely disregards them... I can't think of any way other than using the IE tab which is currently my only option.
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down1nit posted:It's okay man, Casao is always a little uptight about things, he means well but he's been known to flip out once in a while. I like this description. But really, with Opera link and the web interface, no reason not to use bookmarks - they're available on every PC.
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