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Opera Releases Version 7 For Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the de-gustibus-non-disputandum-est dept.

Wee writes "I happened to notice this morning that Opera 7 for Linux has been released. New features include fastforward and rewind, the ability to take notes in conjuction with web pages, a cookie manager, a password manager, and a very serviceable integrated email client called M2 (which was previously only available for the Windows version). Version 7 of Opera also represents a complete code rewrite, from the rendering engine up, and the improvements are fairly significant. Mirrors for debs, rpms and tarballs are on Opera's download page."

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  1. Opera 7.11 RPMs on default Red Hat 8.0 don't work by rklrkl · · Score: 5, Informative
    All 4 varieties of RPMs for Opera 7.11 don't work on Red Hat 8.0 because they've linked dynamically against an older openmotif library - I'm guessing possibly because of Netscape 4.X plugin incompatibilities with the later openmotif library that comes with Red Hat 8.0 by default. I'd have linked statically against the appropriate library in that case, but the Opera folks decided not to.

    To fix this, you have to "rpm -Uvh openmotif21-2.1.30-6.i386.rpm" from one of your Red Hat install CDs (yep, the older openmotif21 RPM is not installed by default on Red Hat 8.0). Sadly, this crucial dependency problem is not mentioned on either the download page or the FAQ, but is buried in their knowledge base here. Hope this helps folks struggling out there...

  2. Mouse Gestures here Re:Opera has lost it's appeal by EricHsu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out the Mozilla Mouse Gestures project. I don't use Opera, so I'm not sure if it reproduces all Opera gestures, but knowing Mozilla, there will be a very awkward but powerful way to customize it the way you like... - Eric

  3. Opera for USB Memory Sticks by Mubarmij · · Score: 5, Informative
    I have installed Opera on my USB memory stick. Now I can just launch it in my office, home, an internet cafe.. and even when I am not connected to the internet, and it will open with all the pages I have last viewed the exact way I have had them before removing the USB stick.

    This is possible because Opera has two great features:

    1. On Windows at least (I have no idea about the Linux version), it installs cleanly to a directory. There are no hard coded registry keys or such. Everything is under the installation directory.

    2. It has a great crash recovery feature. If a PC (or just Opera) crashes for whatever reason, I just relaunch it and it will get me back to exactly where I was before the crash, and all the pages will load from the up-to-the-minute cache.

    If you want to do the same, here is the trick:

    1. Install Opera to a directory in your USB memory stick, ie, K:\Opera

    2. Configure all that you want.

    3. That is it. Now, the only thing that is hard coded in the installation is the drive letter (K in the example above), so when you go to the other machine, just issue the DOS command "SUBST G: K:\".

    This will give you a new drive named K: pointing to the actual USB drive, which is G: in the example.

    Now I have my favorite browser, my links, and the web papges I was reading last all in my key ring. Can't say I can do this with any other browser.

    Have fun.