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Flying Debugger?
I did not know that Opera debugger could open wings and go from Europe to America by air and catch some bugs on there.
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Re:Good thing
In Opera? Not a chance in hell.
Wrong
Nearly all firefox extensions can be done in User JavaScript, and most of them have. User JavaScript itself is the original greesemonkey.
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Re:I have no particular interest in multitasking
on a phone. Here are the things I did want:
- Phone + Google + Evolution + Mac OS calendar, all synced, automatically, all the time
- GTD system task manager that syncs automatically to a web-based GTD system (Toodledo)I Googled GTD Blackberry
First result: http://www.isaacbowman.com/gtd-blackberry-productivity but it doesn't sync... so
I Googled toodledo blackberry and, low and behold, the first result:
http://www.taskjot.com/- A rapidly accessible text + voice + photo notes system with tagging that syncs automatically to a web-based interface
http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/blackberry-platform/reviews/35220.aspx
Another first result- No more "event" syncs (i.e. put in dock/plug into USB, have to remember to sync), all syncs immediate and transparent
http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=default
First result, again- The REAL web of non-"mobile" pages, including AJAX capability
http://www.opera.com/mini/
fi.... oh fuck it, you know...- Flexibility to grow in capabilities
Ability to develop my own apps and not need RIM's blessing before use. Oh, and... thousands of applications and games available to me.
I also got along with it:
- A kindle (with Kindle app)
Blackberry kindle app is in dev... I can't imagine doing any serious reading on that screen (or the iPhone screen), though.
- YouTube anywhere
Built in. Visit http://www.youtube.com/ from the BB browser and yes, you can watch the videos.
- Great GPS integration for nearly every app both for consumption (shopping, dining, directions) and production (contextualizing input data)
Built in. No, really, it's there, and it works.
iPhone gave me all of this. I tried Palm and Blackberry and they never came close to what I wanted. The iPhone is actually the first technology device in a very long time that I'm absolutely fully satisfied with. No complaints, no qualms, no niggles. That never happens, but it happened with the iPhone. You'd have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
I don't know about Palm, but you must not have owned a BlackBerry for more than an hour, or you'd already know it can do all of this. In fact, it can do all of it AT THE SAME TIME.
Can you do that on the iPhone? Sorry, there's no "app for that".
My primary device is a BlackBerry Bold. I also have a 2nd gen iPhone that I use primarily for testing layouts and web features in Safari mobile.
I seriously don't know why the hell people bow down to the iPhone. It's just a damned phone, and a fair bit less capable than my primary device, which is why it's my secondary.
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Oh! Oh! Me! Me!
I bought a Curve for myself, as a personal phone (out of work baby!). I can tell you at least 3 reasons I bought it none of which involve c-level thinking: 1) it's not tied to either Verizon or AT&T (I cause enough bullshit in my own life without the help of these service providers) 2) it looks/feels nice to use and carry 3) decent media player (although I use flipside mostly as my media player) 4) lots of useful application (two of my favorites are midpssh and logicmail).
To make the bb phone even more usable try operamini. Oh, and I've just installed google voice which looks like fun.
Naturally I'll be moving to an android when 1) they look/work a little more iphone/blackberry slick (am I the only one who hates HTC phones?) 2) I can actually afford one. -
Re:complete whats new and opinions
Dialog boxes (JavaScript alerts, HTTP authentication, etc.) are now non-modal and are displayed as a page overlay.
woohoo. does that also include download dialogs ? excellent if it does, lame if it doesn't.
also, i'll use the chance to point out things i'm annoyed about opera (being opera user since version 3, 4 or so, exclusively).
1. inability to disable refresh for history httpd pages. my current major annoyance. i've set history mode to 3, i've explored every other history option - nothing helps. can somebody from opera software who reads this help me, finally ?
2. new one - i can't find out how to customise opera to be more useful
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http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=3023923. a pretty old one - "reload every" functionality got silently regressed, and nobody really responded on why usability was so seriously fucked up on this one.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=225510other than these i'm a quite happy opera user for many years and i'm excited about performance improvements for sure.
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Re:complete whats new and opinions
Dialog boxes (JavaScript alerts, HTTP authentication, etc.) are now non-modal and are displayed as a page overlay.
woohoo. does that also include download dialogs ? excellent if it does, lame if it doesn't.
also, i'll use the chance to point out things i'm annoyed about opera (being opera user since version 3, 4 or so, exclusively).
1. inability to disable refresh for history httpd pages. my current major annoyance. i've set history mode to 3, i've explored every other history option - nothing helps. can somebody from opera software who reads this help me, finally ?
2. new one - i can't find out how to customise opera to be more useful
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http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=3023923. a pretty old one - "reload every" functionality got silently regressed, and nobody really responded on why usability was so seriously fucked up on this one.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=225510other than these i'm a quite happy opera user for many years and i'm excited about performance improvements for sure.
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And they are dropping the Qt dependancy!
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More on the dropping of Qt
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Dropping hard Qt requirement (Unix build)
One of the comments makes it clear that Opera will no longer have to use Qt for the *nix build. Will this just mean better platform integration or more speed though?
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complete whats new and opinions
Complete What's new:
Carakan
Carakan is our new JavaScript engine. It’s fast, more than 7x faster in SunSpider than Opera 10.10 with Futhark on Windows (Mac optimization is not as far along). You can read more gritty details regarding register-based bytecode, automatic object classification and native code generation in the Opera Core blog.Presto 2.5
We are now using Presto 2.5, which contains a huge numbers of improvements. It also includes support for CSS3 transitions and transforms, and more HTML5 features like persistent storage.Vega
Vega is our new graphics library. It’s currently software based and displays everything you see on-screen. Vega can be hardware accelerated, but as you can see from the complex graphics benchmark in Peacekeeper, we don’t seem to need it yet. (Note that Futuremarks Peacekeeper test does no include the results of their complex graphics tests in the overall score. We believe this is wrong in 2009 and will simply be silly if not changed in 2010.)Outside - Platform integration
On Windows 7/Vista, you will notice a lot of visual changes and use of APIs which allow the UI to display the Aero Glass effect. For Windows 7, we also added Aero Peek and Jump List support to easily access your Speed Dials, Tabs, etc. from the Taskbar.
For Mac, a complete rewrite in Cocoa brings an Unified Toolbar, native buttons and scrollbars, multi-touch gestures (try 3-Finger Swipe Left/Right or Pinch to zoom) and a bunch of other small details. We also added Growl notification support.“Private tab” and “Private window”
You can open a new Private tab or Private window that forgets everything that happened on it once closed.Non-modal dialogs
Dialog boxes (JavaScript alerts, HTTP authentication, etc.) are now non-modal and are displayed as a page overlay. This allows you to switch tabs or windows while the dialog is still displayed. Similarly, the Password Manager dialog is now anchored at the top of the page won’t block any content as it loads a new page.Address field and Search field improvements
Both fields have been upgraded in looks and functionality. They can now remember searches, support removing items from history and show results in a better layout.Opera just keeps getting better and better. It was in some Opera 10 beta that they improved the JS engine a lot, and now they've improved it over 7x again, along with the on-screen drawing. That's what I've always loved about Opera; UI responsivess and the smoothness of browsing (scrolling, mouse gestures) beats every other browser and everything is thighly packed in, so no need for clumsy addons which quality and speed differ a lot.
However, the preview images seem to have the Windows 7 like layout. I really hope this is just to show it off and it can be switched to normal - I like having my menubars easily accessible.
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Re:so....?
Around version 3 or 3.5, Firefox has become reasonably close to decent. It's still lacking any semblance of innovation, but it might get there, given enough time.
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Re:Ads? What ads?
Opera:
Has a builtin adblocker, if you want to be able to choose whatever flash anims will run or not you can to. Adsweep works on Opera as well if you don't want to set up your own rules.Chrome:
For chrome you need to switch to the developer snapshot channel to be able to load addons such as adsweep.Safari:
I don't remember what I ran, Pithelmet is used by many but I often find it outdated. If you want something which just block ads as in Firefox with Adblock plus you can use adblock.To almost claim only firefox is able to block ads is kinda ignorant.
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Re:We know what this is really about
I'm frankly growing tired of the endless politicizing of each and every article vaguely related to government, perhaps in particular the EU. In my experience Americans do this much more often then others.
Source marketshare: http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/2009/03/16/a-look-at-desktop-market-share-cis-edition
The only point I was trying to make was that if there should be such a ballot screen, Opera should be in there. I'm not going back to whether a ballot screen should be in there, that's another discussion. -
Are ad servers bogging down the web?
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Physical security is a bigger problem.
First, don't forget physical security. Assume that someone WILL attempt to steal your netbook. Keep it in sight or locked up. Encrypt as much as you can (whole hard drive if at all possible). Make backups, even if that's just "webmail and flickr/picasa", to keep data loss to a minimum.
That said, I'd keep it simple. Get everything for your online banking set up before you go. Take a look at the certificates. Don't worry too much, but just know whether your bank's certificate has the name of your bank or the name of some parent company. Really, you want to know if something changes later.
Seriously consider two browsers: one for "safe" targeted work (checking bank balance, for example) and one for "browsing". Personally, I'd use Firefox for the safe stuff and Opera for everything else. The Opera Turbo http://www.opera.com/browser/turbo/ feature is really nice for slow or flaky connections.
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Re:just friends, no facebook, no cloud
http://yourname.unite.opera.com/ and your local copy of opera regularly pings their server.
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Re:Fine if you have lax security
No it doen't depend on UPnP. It's good to read the post made by other users and then post yours. Is basically a proxy service. As mentioned above by tomhudson "Check the documentation - your web browser is not really becoming a "web server" - your requests go through their proxy server at yourdevicename.yourusername.operaunite.com They've just wrapped xhmhttprequests (XHR) in their own custom javascript class, and provided a default proxy for it. http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-unite-developer-primer-revisited/#conceptsproxy [opera.com]"
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Re:just friends, no facebook, no cloud
Check the documentation - your web browser is not really becoming a "web server" - your requests go through their proxy server at yourdevicename.yourusername.operaunite.com
They've just wrapped xhmhttprequests (XHR) in their own custom javascript class, and provided a default proxy for it.
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-unite-developer-primer-revisited/#conceptsproxy
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Re:just friends, no facebook, no cloud
Or does Unite provide a way to find the content that other people have put up? I don't understand what market Opera is trying to target here. Anyone with the where-with-all to setup their own web server and the associated DNS host records and the like has probably already done so. The OP bashes on Facebook, but Facebook (and Myspace and whatever the other sites are) offers the person an ability to tell someone else, "Look me up on Facebook. My name is..." Does Unite offer the equivalent capability?
I think the idea is more to host your own stuff, such as your pictures or some other small app like the Fridge notes without having to muck around with DNS and servers and pasting the link to your friends over IM. That way you can tell your friends to leave you at note at an URL like http://macbook-win7.jfim.operaunite.com/fridge/ instead of having to sign up for yet another service for only one simple app.
It seems to me that the large majority of what people want to share online isn't their own content, but content that they come across. Facebook is the perfect example. It seems to be filled with links to YouTube, links to other webpages, and blogs and whatever else any particular person finds interesting and wants to share with their friends. Very rarely do the large majority of people want to share content that is uniquely theirs. The one big exception that I can think of is music. Myspace seems to have the lion's share of that market. And on the subject of music, who wants to eat the bandwidth costs of serving up music from their own computer when a site like Myspace, or YouTube or listentomymusicyo.com will do it for you, for free?
I don't think the purpose is to replace any serious hosting proposal, it's more of a share with a handful of friends thing.
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Re:Wow, Opera has what I call ambition...
And I would even say that it's a better browser than Firefox or Safari, but that's of course everyones own opinion. The robust interface and feeling on how fast things work is just good though. Firefox doesn't really come close with it.
That being said, Opera doesn't really even have low usage numbers. It has over 50% marketshare in Russia and CIS countries, being the #1 browser. It has really wide deployment on mobile phones, Wii's, other electronic equipment and hotel tv's and so on.
Actually making a better profit than Mozilla too, so I don't see why they wouldn't keep developing new things (and Opera has usually been the first one to actually develop new browser features)
Mozilla Foundation: Revenue $75 million (4 employees)
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Re:Normal
WTF? Most companies don't release nightly builds of their software.
Not when it comes to web browsers. You can get nightlies from every single other major browser, except for IE.
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Re:Yep that's why I avoid extensionsYes there is a major difference, the widgets are essentially small dynamic webpages just like any other page. Quote:
Opera Widgets are cross-platform and cross-device applications made with Web technologies;
Thus, no problem.
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Opera FTW...
Yawn..
Opera already have stuff working in this area...
http://my.opera.com/core/blog/index.dml/tag/Opera%203d%20svg%20canvas
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Or just use Opera Turbo
(which is basically proxying from dedicated Opera servers)
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Re:Only video sites?
Chrome and Safari use the same rendering engine (Webkit), and both support html5 video (I think Chrome supports H.264 and OGG though I'm having trouble confirming that; Safari is of course H.264 only). Firefox has supported OGG video since 3.5, and at least some versions of Opera do as well (source). As usual, IE is lagging behind here - and Microsoft tends to make the argument - validly so - that they don't want to incorporate new features until the standards are set. As it stands now, I think the only thing NOT decided upon is the codec(s) that must be supported by browsers. If W3 just calls it in favor of OGG, then it's a safe bet Apple will add OGG support in the next version of Safari even if they continue to support H.264 as well (IE9 would likely do the same).
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Re:Reinventing the wheel
Why the 'F does the page have to reload when I hit the back button, or two pages reload if I did so accidentally and hit the forward button immediately thereafter.
You're looking for Opera. Be advised, you won't need the forward/back buttons anymore, though, as holding the right button and left-clicking works for "Back" and switching buttons will get you "Forward".
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Re:I'm thinking about moving to Norway
You also forgot that Opera comes from Norway.
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Re:Yeah but you are still way off!
Opera and Google are both able to accurately work out the size of their own user base using unique auto update hits. This would seem like a more conclusive method than your own. With this in mind Opera still has a third more users than Chrome globally.
As a web developer, I couldn't care less about installed base. If you have a browser, but never use it, I don't give two shits about you. I care about the guy shopping on my site. In that respect, statscounter's method is quite a bit more 'conclusive' because it measures usage, not installed base.
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Yeah but you are still way off!
Opera and Google are both able to accurately work out the size of their own user base using unique auto update hits. This would seem like a more conclusive method than your own. With this in mind Opera still has a third more users than Chrome globally.
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StatCounter etc
Just remember that StatCounter and other stat counting sites tend to be very US and English language generic - completely ignoring Russia and China and such.
What's interesting is that Opera actually has 40-60% marketshare in CIS countries, better than both FF and IE (and not just a single version).
But good that people are finally starting to move off from IE6.
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Answer looking for a problem?
CSS 3 Web Fonts is already a done deal, so is there some real reason we need yet another way to get fonts to a user? If the font won't work on their browser, fall back to browser default, wow, it won't look as purdy, boo-hoo.
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Re:That's a silly conclusion
Not that the iphone isn't locked down (it is), or that Apple would open it up if they thought they could (they might), but the carriers are a bigger roadblock to open smartphones than anything else.
I don't recall the same cross platform panacea you do. I remember having to edit the seem on my first Motorola smartphone to get unfettered java, and then having to pick the version of Opera mobile that would would work with my java version. I also don't see that the situation has changed all that much, and as far as I know Apple has not stopped anyone from producing a smartphone that uses java in any way it wants, or anyone from developing a java app for a smartphone.
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Re:kettle/black
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Re:Bittorrent
Maybe when someone codes an in-browser bit-torrent client things will go better
You mean like Opera? http://www.opera.com/browser/features/
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Links to more illegal software
So all of the following are now illegal in Brazil, since they can be used to assist copyright infringement: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Filezilla, the cp Unix command, etc.
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Re:To answer my own question...
Is it impossible that WebGL could ever be done that way?
I'm starting to think that the best way to deal with IE is to create a Webkit/V8 plugin.
Dibs on that idea!
And V8 may not always be the best engine for that. And since the browser already does Javascript, I'd say leave it to the browser. If it's really a problem for people, the solution is to upgrade the browser, not to install a bigger plugin.
No, what I like about O3D -- and you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong -- is that WebGL is a very low-level wrapper around OpenGL, whereas O3D is high-level-ish, right? Or, put another way: Would it be possible for O3D to wrap either Direct3D or OpenGL, depending on the platform? That would be a definite win.
Other than that, from reading that discussion, the biggest thing I like about WebGL is that, like most of the other web standards I know and love, and like the Unix philosophy, it tries to do one thing and well.
For example, rather than having its own format for loading assets, it's counting on the browser to provide a more generic one -- maybe the ability to have URLs that refer to some location inside a zipfile (or something else reasonably standard). It occurs to me that data URLs could go a long way here as a hack, too.
WebGL's biggest advantage (IMHO) is its ease of implementation -- by the browser, natively. Webkit's on board, along with Mozilla and Opera. Ever since Flash, it seems like people have learned their lesson regarding plugins. Don't get me wrong, I think that Gears is very useful, but how often is it updated?
Getting users to install a plugin on any platform is becoming difficult, it takes the browser vendors themselves to push features. If every browser apart from IE implements canvas3D, then I think you're going to see gradual adoption by the same developers that build on canvas and/or SVG despite IE's lack of (native) support.
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Re:Function before form
Give me a good, fast, stable browser with a UI that isn't flashy, cluttered or distracting.
No problem, just go here.
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Opera for Win MO
There is a decent browser (2 in fact,check upcoming Skyfire) for Windows Mobile, it is Opera 9
(as Opera Desktop 10 shipped, their site getting a bit hammered now, check later if you wish)
It is a real browser, just like iPhone Safari. As a bonus, it will have ''turbo'' (mobile compressing/reformatting proxy) too. Skyfire on the other hand, is a shell for a Desktop mozilla, which does amazing things like playing flash videos no matter whatever format they are. I also loved its approach of unified search/url bar. I hope Desktop browsers will steal it
:)As a Symbian owner, I don't think MS will drop Windows Mobile. It is their most prestigious Windows yet without any kind of evil security issue so far and MS only companies love it.
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Re:Tangential? Maybe, but
I still live with WinMo, but only because of the newest Opera Beta.... nice browser! http://www.opera.com/mobile/
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The HTML renderer engine still requires some work
These issues are still not fixed in 10.0 RTM:
- VMWare server 2.0 interface doesn't render properly in 10.0: Select a VM and at the right you don't see any info appear.
- '#' local links are resolved after everything is loaded: e.g. http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=277142&page=14#comment3054845 , this is slow, as all icons first have to be loaded before the local jump is made. This is annoying at forum sites
- On Windows XP, Checkbox in webpage isn't styled but looks like Windows 95 checkbox. This is particularly present here at /., where all checkbox controls are rendered as windows 95 checkboxes.
- Cookies set in javascript where the name has a ' ' in the name are not persisted.
- Sometimes a combobox is rendered as a windows 95 combobox instead of a Windows XP / themed combo box, e.g. when you set the options like: Pink
- In the default skin, on Windows XP, when you hover over the scrollbar at the right, the scrollbar is highlighted... pink
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Re:That is impressive
It was released for all Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
I was going to post that it's a shame that they've cut back on their cross-platform support, but it turns out that they haven't. You can get Opera 10 for quite a few more platforms including Linux/PowerPC, FreeBSD i386 and x86-64, Solaris SPARC and x86. QNX, BeOS and OS/2 only have quite old versions.
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Re:Qt3...Good Job! Honestly why?
They also offer the Qt4 version, e.g. http://get.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1000/final/en/x86_64/opera_10.00.4585.gcc4.qt4_amd64.deb
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Link for those not looking for deb packages
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Re:That is impressive
Furthermore, there's an apt repository for
.deb packages, both releases and beta versions. This is meant for Debian, as Ubuntu commercial software repository already packages Opera, but I've used it with Ubuntu as well (to get betas) without any trouble. -
Re:Qt3...Good Job! Honestly why?
QT4 builds are also available
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Re:That is impressive
Someone's made a flash blocker for Opera using just user stylesheets and javascript. I've used it for Opera 9 and works well for me--haven't tried 10 yet.
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Re:That is impressive
So
... you want Opera to include in their main browser a feature that you know is an optional 3rd party plug-in in for Firefox?Have you considered why Adblock might be a 3rd party plug-in? Apart from the "barebones" bit. Could it be because the first sign that Mozilla is actively including a list of ads to block, they will be sued into the ground in the US and other places for interfering with other people's income? And while they might win such a lawsuit, don't they have better ways to spend their money?
And if they were to lose such a lawsuit, Mozilla might get off somewhat easy, as they are a non-profit organization. Opera on the other hand isn't.
Now, is it possible to make a third party addition to Opera that shares adsites to block? Certainly. I'm willing to bet that it's also possible to use the same lists that Adblock uses. To make things easy to start with, it could use mvps' list as a starter.
And, if you really want to be pedantic, there's always the option of using Google to find what you're looking for. There seems to be quite few attempts at recreating Adblock:
Tamil's My.Opera blog
OperaWiki.info has some suggestions
Lex1's blog on My.Opera also has some ideasThere's even a Flashblock for Opera
Basically it boils down to the same complaints you hear about Linux from people who are used to Windows: "but I need $program, and I don't want to look for replacements".
Now, what is the best option for you? I have the faintest idea. I'm quite satisfied with the built in filtering as it is. If I go to a site that has some annoying banners, it rarely takes me more than 30 seconds to block them, and I can live with that.
Is it as effective as Adblock? No clue - I don't use Adblock or Firefox if I can avoid it. It lacks the basic things that I love in Opera. Funny how that works out - one man's must have item is another man's "meh".
And if you want to be really pedantic, the one thing that Firefox still kind of needs is a built in ad blocker that's as good as Adblock.
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Re:That is impressive
So
... you want Opera to include in their main browser a feature that you know is an optional 3rd party plug-in in for Firefox?Have you considered why Adblock might be a 3rd party plug-in? Apart from the "barebones" bit. Could it be because the first sign that Mozilla is actively including a list of ads to block, they will be sued into the ground in the US and other places for interfering with other people's income? And while they might win such a lawsuit, don't they have better ways to spend their money?
And if they were to lose such a lawsuit, Mozilla might get off somewhat easy, as they are a non-profit organization. Opera on the other hand isn't.
Now, is it possible to make a third party addition to Opera that shares adsites to block? Certainly. I'm willing to bet that it's also possible to use the same lists that Adblock uses. To make things easy to start with, it could use mvps' list as a starter.
And, if you really want to be pedantic, there's always the option of using Google to find what you're looking for. There seems to be quite few attempts at recreating Adblock:
Tamil's My.Opera blog
OperaWiki.info has some suggestions
Lex1's blog on My.Opera also has some ideasThere's even a Flashblock for Opera
Basically it boils down to the same complaints you hear about Linux from people who are used to Windows: "but I need $program, and I don't want to look for replacements".
Now, what is the best option for you? I have the faintest idea. I'm quite satisfied with the built in filtering as it is. If I go to a site that has some annoying banners, it rarely takes me more than 30 seconds to block them, and I can live with that.
Is it as effective as Adblock? No clue - I don't use Adblock or Firefox if I can avoid it. It lacks the basic things that I love in Opera. Funny how that works out - one man's must have item is another man's "meh".
And if you want to be really pedantic, the one thing that Firefox still kind of needs is a built in ad blocker that's as good as Adblock.
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Re:That is impressive
So
... you want Opera to include in their main browser a feature that you know is an optional 3rd party plug-in in for Firefox?Have you considered why Adblock might be a 3rd party plug-in? Apart from the "barebones" bit. Could it be because the first sign that Mozilla is actively including a list of ads to block, they will be sued into the ground in the US and other places for interfering with other people's income? And while they might win such a lawsuit, don't they have better ways to spend their money?
And if they were to lose such a lawsuit, Mozilla might get off somewhat easy, as they are a non-profit organization. Opera on the other hand isn't.
Now, is it possible to make a third party addition to Opera that shares adsites to block? Certainly. I'm willing to bet that it's also possible to use the same lists that Adblock uses. To make things easy to start with, it could use mvps' list as a starter.
And, if you really want to be pedantic, there's always the option of using Google to find what you're looking for. There seems to be quite few attempts at recreating Adblock:
Tamil's My.Opera blog
OperaWiki.info has some suggestions
Lex1's blog on My.Opera also has some ideasThere's even a Flashblock for Opera
Basically it boils down to the same complaints you hear about Linux from people who are used to Windows: "but I need $program, and I don't want to look for replacements".
Now, what is the best option for you? I have the faintest idea. I'm quite satisfied with the built in filtering as it is. If I go to a site that has some annoying banners, it rarely takes me more than 30 seconds to block them, and I can live with that.
Is it as effective as Adblock? No clue - I don't use Adblock or Firefox if I can avoid it. It lacks the basic things that I love in Opera. Funny how that works out - one man's must have item is another man's "meh".
And if you want to be really pedantic, the one thing that Firefox still kind of needs is a built in ad blocker that's as good as Adblock.
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Re:That is impressive
But does it run on Linux?
It runs on these OSs:
- Windows
- Mac OS X
- Linux x86 64
- Linux PowerPC
- Linux i386
- FreeBSD i386
- FreeBSD AMD64
- Solaris Sparc
- Solaris Intel
- QNX
- OS/2
- BeOS
You can also see specialized versions for your distro of choice on their site