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Opera 7 for Mac OS X Preview Released

Posted by pudge on from the mo-browser-mo-browser-mo-browser dept.

apetime writes "A preview of Opera 7 for Mac OS X has finally been released. The new version brings Mac Opera up to date with the latest Windows and Linux releases, including the Presto rendering engine, Opera Mail client, Opera Chat client for IRC, and integration with Mac OS X's Keychain and Address Book. After fears of cancellation when Safari came out, this is great news for recent switchers and Opera fans, and another great browser choice for Mac users."

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  1. Re:Why? by wibs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Competition is always good... we can all see what happens to innovation when people say "what good is Netscape when IE is already on my computer?"

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  2. I find it hard to get excited about this by tiktokfx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not saying the developers aren't providing a useful product, it just raises a question in my mind of how worthwhile it is.

    Looking at this release, it's not a bad program, but it just feels... bulky. The interface isn't remarkably clean... like a large number of crossplatform programs, it's a sort of bastard, unnatural amalgam of design ideas that don't sit very well with me, at least.

    In addition, I continue to not understand the point of writing one application to do several tenuously-linked tasks. Safari, Mail and Address Book are all separate apps, as an example. It's cleaner to provide well-defined applications to do certain functions, and integrate them through communications interfaces than it is to just stick functions X, Y and Z into one ball.

  3. Re:Bzzznt! by FFFish · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course it selects all the text in the string. Not too often one's wanting to actually insert text instead of type a brand new URL that reuses the window.

    A second click sets the insertion point. Groovy.

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  4. Re:Bzzznt! by Gropo · · Score: 4, Insightful
    No, I disagree. I want all text entry fields across the entire frickin' OS to act identically, tyvm. Counteracting behaviors cause me undue thought processes, and in turn disdain towards the careless developer that made the decision to break the interface guidelines.

    I'm quite in the habit--wether it be in a word processor or browser--of triple-clicking to select an entire string/paragraph.

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