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Okay, done: (1) OperaAdFilter (http://www.monroeworld.com/operafilter/documentat ion.php) does a pretty good job of providing a way to modify the built-in ad filter (yeah, Opera actually had one all along contrary to popular belief), otherwise known as UserCss. (2) And if that isn't enough for you then you can also use Opera's (also) built-in content blocker (http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/). It's pretty neat: once you choose it from the menu it "whites out" everything on the page except for the ad banners and graphics; fro there you simply click on which object you want blocked and then click "save" near the top of the browser window. Quick, easy, intuitive, and it does it on a per-webpage basis. I don't blame folks for stating how Opera lacks this, that or the other thing; the browser's so chock-full of built-in features which a lot of people don't think the browser even has, and the fact that they even exist isn't made very obvious. Of course, the other side of that coin is that if Opera decided to turn on all those features simultaneously then the browser would be accused of having a cluttered interface. The result is that quite a few settings are turned off by default and must be enabled by using the "Preferences" menu.

I could of swore I read somewhere it's origins were with the Gecko engine and Mozilla (NetScape) browser projects.. but I cannot quickly find that info right now :(

I know now they use a different engine however.

They even had a real-human return an email once with significant info on my questions to them about their *great* free mail service at: http://operamail.com/ actually :)

However I *always* keep several browsers handy just in case one does not render what I need done at that moment.

Not one item from the list looks like from outer space - all are concepts which any monkey can bring into a browser.

I don't think they realize that not only is Opera indeed capable of blocking ads, but can also block content on a per-webpage basis. Maybe they should have checked out http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/ before making that recommendation.

Oooohhh, look everybody, this Firefox web browser is eeeevil!

It lets you block this terribly annoying ads so it must be banned!

Did you hear me? FIREFOX CAN BLOCK THOSE TERRIBLY ANNOYING ADS!

And it's really easy to do!

So I'm saying that the Firefox web browser, which can easily block terribly annoying ads, is eeeeeevil and must be banned!

Now won't you join me in spreading the word far and wide that FIREFOX WEB BROWSER CAN EASILY BLOCK ALL THOSE TERRIBLY ANNOYING ADVERTISEMENTS!

It should also be banned for being the first browser to have page tabs which are also eeeevi-[AC is beaten to death by Opera web browser fans tired of hearing that bullshit claim...]

The One True Path to enlightenment (and tabbed browsing) can be found here...http://www.opera.com/

"Which, assuming you want to support IE users, means no."

You can support IE users ... just inlcude links to the download pages for Opera, Firefox, Netscape, Safari, etc.

Better yet, give them full support - have them download a bootable linux distro to replace Vista Millennium.

We could go on forever ;)

I'll just link to this and this about the addEventListener thing.

We could go on forever ;)

I'll just link to this and this about the addEventListener thing.

Get the Firefox patch here

http://www.opera.com/download/

I went here to get Opera for my Redhat machine at work.

There are on the order of 40 different variants for download. If they are binary compatible, why isn't there just one or two? As there is for windows/OSX/Solaris.

I am not Open Source Hater, but I tend to agree with the article. Linux is totally fragmenting it's minuscule desktop share amongst 50 pseudo-compatible variations.

What are you, new?

http://www.firefox.com
http://www.opera.com

Opera Mobile isn't a real web browser?

The iphone isn't a "slick portable computer with cell phone capability". It's an oversized phone with a crippled PDA capability. Anyway, Opera's been available for PPC devices (and also Psions and other phones) for quite a while now. The iphone can't record video, and the stills are worse than those from a Samsung device.. Oh well, enjoy your koolaid.

Yes, I do.
http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/
What a great idea... installing applications on a device!

CSS test results for latest downloadable Opera (not quite up to Safari 3 Beta):

From the 43 selectors 25 have passed, 3 are buggy and 15 are unsupported (Passed 346 out of 578 tests) - Opera9.21
From the 43 selectors 25 have passed, 9 are buggy and 9 are unsupported (Passed 346 out of 578 tests) - Safari3

"About Opera" states System: MacOSX 10.4.9, even though I'm running 10.4.10?

(these days, Opera is 100% free).

For the record: The CTO of Opera Software, Håkon "howcome" Wium Lie, is the father of CSS.

Well, remember that most of their income is derived from (initially) use on mobile devices, and later supplemented by a deal with google regarding default search settings etc. Their presence on the desktop is probably complex, but at least partly because "Hey, we're already managing a browser designed with a portable core system, so we may as well have a desktop presence while we're at it..."

My strategy is to use Opera except when I am specifically seeking to debug a page. Then I start FireFox with some of the various web developer toolbars etc.

Now, that may or may not change as things go on, since Opera does have some stuff like this:
http://dev.opera.com/tools/

So I don't need to switch to Firefox for some stuff, like a DOM snapshot from memory (which includes changes just made by Javascript, etc.) and checking through JS properties. And I can read the X-Bender header quotes. I'd still go to FF for it's javascript console and DIV outlining plugins, however.

But for casual use, FF just doesn't seem as nice to me. (Highly technical answer there, eh?)

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/kestrel-is-co minga>

"As a result, Opera 9.5 contains more than a year of improvements on the rendering engine. This includes improved CSS3 support (text-shadow anyone ), superior SVG support and a brand new javascript engine with support for ECMAScript 4 'getters' and 'setters'. Apart from being the best standard compliant browser, Opera 9.5 will also display even more webpages with bad coding."

They've always been aggressive about making sure websites work in the browser.

Really, the Opera web browser has allowed me to do great things throughout the internet, with hundreds of tabs open, and consequently more bookmarking being done, and session management, I do not know how productive I would be with Firefox alone. Commonly, when stranded on Firefox-only systems, I am burdened with odd tab loading impairments and generally limited to acting like I am doing literally one thing and one thing only-- no queuing up content or strands of thought, etc. Even with the hierarchical vertical tabbing enhancements through the TBE extension akin to iRider, my productivity seems to drop. So, I am glad to see more (good) publicity for Opera.

Exactly.

As it happens all the time (remember OpenOffice.org destroying MS Office's market share? Real Player being installed and used on each and every win-based computer (instead of the builtin WMP)? Everybody using Trillian/Miranda/Kopete/GAIM/Whatever instead of the ole MSN Messenger?).

Just one thing remains to be asked: Why the heck would anybody use Firefox if there are better alternatives everywhere?

As a possibly amusing postscript, I just heard that my 9500, which has been given to Nokia Service Centre no less than eight months ago for the Infamous Hinge Crack problem, was finally replaced by a refurbished model after seven or eight trips to and from the main Nokia Repair Centre in the UK.

I went to pick up said refurbished model at the service centre. The staff there (who are very good, by the way; the one great thing to come out of this whole mess is that I've found the definitive excellent mobile repair shop) unwrapped the replacement, opened the phone - and you probably wouldn't believe this if I told you, so here's photographic evidence (compare with stock photo).

Notice something missing? A certain lack of QWERTY? :-P

Bear in mind that Nokia are aware I've been waiting since November for this repair to be completed. They have accepted that the repair should be done under warranty, and that the phone's warranty is current. They have even released a bulletin stating that this sort of repair should be covered by warranty, because this problem occurs so frequently. They are aware that trading standards have been contacted on this issue. And yet they still send back this diamond-plated 'fuck you'.

As far as I am concerned, Apple will find it difficult not to eclipse the competition in terms of customer service :-)

These statistics make me wonder if Konqueror 4 will become another large competitor on Windows. Konqueror and Safari both share a very common core (KHTML/WebKit), so the renderring and page handling should be relatively the same. Web designers can get another speedy and a more native web browsers that tests their sites for the same purpose, and general users can get a lightweight, standards-compliant, open source web browser (without the OSS requirements, you can already get this with Opera, of course) that won't try to enforce another platform's "look'n'feel" like Apple's apps all do.

For the interested, you can grab an alpha copy of KDE 4 (download qt-copy, kdelibs, and kdebase at the very least; you can use either GCC/Cygwin or MS Visual Studio to compile it). On OS X, there are precompiled universal binaries for everything, and Kubuntu and openSUSE users can get packages for it from their respective websites.

Are we forgetting a certain browser?

I'm glad I use Opera 9.21 for most of my browsing.

http://www.opera.com/

But I really love Firefox 2.0 because of the Firebug plugin.

Get your Secure Firefox add-on here.

Firefox is focused on general, average user profile who still uses bookmarks and even check their history manually.

That is why they are successful at adopting the average browser user. That is what Mozilla suite (pre Firefox) missed and people like me were getting flamed/kicked/banned by community because of reminding that fact.

I think what is more interesting is Opera Speeddial feature which has been recently introduced. If they were just, a bit OS X native friendly... (I really need keychain)

http://www.opera.com/img/products/desktop/screensh ots/speeddial.jpg

They found that average end user visits 10 sites frequently and made that "Super simple bookmark" thing.

I personally prefer Omniweb Workspaces, a grouped bookmark feature native to Omniweb

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/gall ery/movies/04_workspaces.html (Embedded Mov file)

They're apparently embedding a fucking SQL DATABASE into Firefox 3. Given that SQL databases are not exactly known for being light-weight (in fact, quite the opposite), I'm going to take a guess that the answer is probably half-past never.

If you want a light-weight, featureful browser that doesn't require 100 extensions to make it barely usable, you might consider trying Opera.

1. Reduce cache size to something reasonable, like 10MB
2. Reduce history size to something reasonable, like 500
3. Switch to Opera :D

There was some outcry when Opera recently decided to change its builtin search engine for its mobile browsers from Google to Yahoo.

Running Opera on Win2k. No add, period. Enabled JavaScript (cringe), turned on Flash (shudder), enabled pop-ups (cringe, shudder) and refreshed page 5 times. Still no ads. Ah, bliss.

could it be...

this ?

*I await the shower of invective*

Please, by all means, do your own research. Bring up taskmamager or top (well, can't really compare IE there)...

I use IE at work and Opera at home. Microsoft dosen't hold the monopoly on "New isn't necessarilly better."

I particularly like the new Speed Dial feature in Opera 9.20.

It shouldn't be.

From Opera: Today Opera Software and Nintendo released the much-anticipated full version of the Internet Channel, powered by the Opera browser.

Nor do I see the words trial anywhere on it. Here's a video showing the same thing I see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6FI5usclV4

Q: Did you remember to do the Wii Update before you redownloaded the Opera browser?

Also, Opera doesn't brand this as the "Final" release. In press releases, they're calling it the "Full" version, because there could be updates in the future.

http://www.opera.com/download/

Anyway, after noticing the cell phone accesses, I went looking to see if there was anything I needed to know or do different (I was hoping NOT) and if it was going to be worth it. I didn't find any information at all (regarding anything notable needed for cell phone access) when searching at google

The trick is to look for "mobile" or "handheld" (which is the relevant CSS media) not "cell phone." Some useful references on this topic include Making Small Devices Look Great at Dev.Opera and Pocket-sized Design at A List Apart.

Opera conveniently makes it easy to test Opera Mini (their Java-based browser for cell phones): There's a live demo which just embeds it as an applet. Unfortunately, the last time I went looking I couldn't find much in the way of resources for testing other phones' browsers.

I make web pages, with a "slideshow" stylesheet that works well with OperaShow. I like to have the thing online when I do my presentation. The last page displays the URL it is at. Anyone can come back to it any time they want to. This way I don't have to bother with distributing hard copies or emailing soft copies.

Plus, if this turns out to be a highly desirable feature, browsers will soon support P2P without the need for external/plugin software.

Opera's Hallvord blogged a bit about GWT yesterday. He doesn't seem to like GWT much, and neither do I, based on what I've seen there.

I'm all for faster and easier development, but when such an app gets stuck on the client side, then you are in a lot of trouble; at first glance, it looks undebuggable (if that's even a word).

Opera's Hallvord blogged a bit about GWT yesterday. He doesn't seem to like GWT much, and neither do I, based on what I've seen there.

I'm all for faster and easier development, but when such an app gets stuck on the client side, then you are in a lot of trouble; at first glance, it looks undebuggable (if that's even a word).