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Opera 9 with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available
ZarK writes "Technical Preview 2 of the upcoming Opera 9.0 browser is now available for download. In addition to the general bugfix and rendering improvements there's also new features, like x-platform type widgets, improved content blocking, bittorrent support, thumbnail preview of tabs and more. Improved functionality also comes in the fact that a good lot of the scripts from userscripts.org will now work, advanced settings have improved in opera:config, and more browser customization is available at the opera community. However, some clear indications that this is still an alpha release is the experimental support for NTLM which breaks the proxy functionality for some users, and the fact that widgets are always on top."
Finally! A browser with native support for BitTorrent downloading. This is certainly a positive thing, especially given the superb functioning of Opera's download system, at least compared to other browsers. Good move, Opera.
- Frans.
Well, I've got to admit, my knee-jerk reaction to this was so what. The main browsers are already so intrenched in my habits, from the way I author html to my day-to-day use of the browser that it is unlikely I will care about another application unless it captures a significant share of the market thus forcing me to care about any quirks it may have in behavior and compliance to standards. But after reading the list of features, I find myself thinking I might be interested in some of them. Site-specific prefs are an interesting idea; A torrent client would be handy; the ability to change the default search engine is nice too. It looks like I'll try it out.
Now that Opera has removed the ads from their browser, and added these other features, it has become a real competitor to Firefox.
The Firefox developers will really have to step up to the plate with the upcoming Firefox 2.0 release if they want to retain the marketshare they currently have. Firefox will have to show some pretty serious speed improvements, and far better memory management. It can't leak memory at the rate which the current 1.5 releases do.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
"However, some clear indications that this is still an alpha release is..."
Nightmarish grammar aside, the biggest clear indication that this is not final is the "Opera 9 Technology Preview 2" title on the linked page. Also, there is the fact that it is Opera labs, not the main site. Contrary to what the title would lead you to believe, this is just an open beta.
The big splash is the widgets. I am of the opinion though that the widget concept is being overdone completely. Now, you can have start.com widgets running in your Opera browser with widgets on your OS with widgets (either OS X Tiger's dashboard/Windows Vista Beta Sidebar or via third-party stuff a la Konfabulator/Superkaramba/Object Desktop). Enough alreay. How many different ways do I need to get my local weather forecast?
Glad to hear it. For my money, this is the best browser living. And I say that as a Mac user who has windows of Safari and Firefox and Camino open all day. Not to mention the occassional foray into Shiira, Icab, and IE for page testing.
I always had the idea that Operants were people with too much time and money on their hands. But when it went free, I grabbed it right away, and after figuring out some of the frustrating GUI anomalies, I've never looked back. I haven't opened anything else since on my ancient night box, which was running close to crippled with my previous #1, Firefox (memory leaks, I guess, is the rumor).
I've been using the FreeBSD release today, and my gosh, does it ever fly! It doesn't feel as responsive as Konqueror, but it still is a fantastic browser.
The email client is vastly improved, and it feels much quicker than in previous releases. It was quite quick at listing my 1800 MB mailbox, and it's now possible to scroll through the entries at a rapid pace without delay.
The opera:config feature is quite nice, and presented very well. It's far nicer to view than the comparable about:config capabilities of Firefox, yet just as easy to locate and modify preferences.
Overall, this release is an improvement over the last, while still retaining the small size and high responsiveness that Opera is known for. I give it an A+.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Opera has been a worthy competitor for a long time, but what keeps amusing me is that they pack 10032894208492 features, and a pony, into the browser, and it still does not feel bloated (not compared to some apps, that have two features and a eye candy interface which makes your eyes fall out).
Don't like using one program for browsing, mail, and bittorrent? Then don't. Just use the browsing capabilities, and the rest of the features will be sufficiently hid away.
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This really won't matter until all BT clients support web-seeding, that is, seeding peers via HTTP without the need for a dedicated client doing the seeding. Then every website, even those hosted on shared servers, will be able to easily provide torrents to their vistors and in turn their vistors will already support BT without extra software to install. AFAIK only BitTornado supports it and I really dislike that client. This is a crucial step for BT to really prove itself to be useful for more legitimate purposes.
Heh..
In reference to the previous ver 8, the CEO promises to swim from Norway to USA, with a brief stopover for mom's hot coffee in Iceland. That is, if the download reaches 1,000,000 in 4 days..
Apparently it did! I remembered downloading a copy, in a bid to see such sport, but alas..
Press Release
Previously, it was reported that the attempt failed due to various reasons, including physical condition. Let's hope he's is fitter this time around.
Yeah, no malfunctioning support raft.
Swim Attempt Report
Sincere regards to Opera Team..
-PS Crazy stunts like these are really fun!
Will sys-admin for food
This is good. I like it that corporates take use of the BitTorrent technology. Now if only Opera became opensource, I could maybe consider take use of it. *g* Heh, nah. Only problem is that it does not have builds for any recent versions of my distro (Slackware). The one I found worked a while, then it started segfaulting when I tried to go to websites.
As a programmer, I also wonder how they designed the engine to be soooo fast, that even makers of other browsers cannot figure out how to replicate what makes Opera fast, into their browsers. Can anyone enlighten me?
I understand where you're coming from. Indeed, it often is difficult to change one's browser on a whim. But this time it's actually worth it, and this is only a beta-quality release!
Do you remember that feeling you got when you first used Firefox? Indeed, it often gave people that rush of "I'm trying something new, and by jove, I love it!" Well, you'll likely get the same feeling if you give this release of Opera a try.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
This could change the perception and add a new twist to the RIAA lawsuits against P2P users...simply because P2P would now be given credit for helping all kinds of content providers overcome their bandwidth problems.
Think...seeding/leeching CNN homepage
Firefox has a huge amount of marketing and hype behind it. That's why it's more popular that Opera. Now, these days many people are beginning to run into problems with Firefox, namely due to its poor memory management. People are beginning to question the validity of the hype, and many are switching to alternative browsers like Opera, Konqueror, Safari and OmniWeb. As long as these alternative browsers keep innovating at the pace they have been lately, Firefox may not be able to keep up.
As for others replicating the fantastic capabilities of the engine of Opera, it has been done. Konqueror is a prime example. Often times it feels far more slick than even Opera. Unfortunately, it is limited to Unix platforms these days. That may change in the future, however, with the release of KDE 4. A native version of Konqueror for Windows may be just the thing necessary to get more people to switch away from IE.
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I'm using it right now, as I write this comment...
Anyways, I've started to use Opera on a more regular basis when it came out with the "free" version in 8, and as I keep using it, the more I'm liking it.
The bittorrent integration is a nice feature, although I haven't seen the thumbnail preview (which I find the most interesting feature).
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... will it clean my bathroom?
The implementation of userscripts.org is good. One of the things keeping me on firefox is the greasemonkey extension. Opera is really a better overall browser and now i feel it has everything i want in a browser. I am not a huge BT user but when i do use it, it will be good not to need to install azureus just to download one file.
This release of Opera offers excellent support for CSS, CSS2, and even CSS3. Many have suggested that it is, at this point, superior to that offered by any existing browser on the market. Of course, this is the cutting edge of their product line, so one would expect it to be at the top of its game.
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Question: why has Opera managed to incorporate Bittorrent support into their browser, yet the only torrent plugins for Firefox are in a horrendous state of pre-development? WTF is going on here?
The Opera preview is very nice, and they've done very nice work packaging it up. You can download it just about any way you'd want it.. deb's, rpm's, etc. I like the preview of the tab when you hold your pointer over it. I like the built-in mouse gestures. They've implemented Ctrl-Enter to complete www.***.com's (though Ctrl-Shift-Enter and Shift-Enter don't do .org or .net), Ctrl-T now makes a new tab just like Ctrl-N.
My only complaints at this point are the fonts/default interface and the format for reading RSS. I love Firefox's drop-down live bookmarks. I don't want to switch to a mail-reader type page to check headlines, and I've never been into the sidebar. I've heard complaints about Firefox's implementation of RSS, but I think it's spot on. Firefox with extensions does everything I want. Opera comes sooo close to having all the features I want even without extensions, but the default UI feels congested and I can't filter my news the way I want to. If I wanted to read news in a mail reader I'd subscribe to email lists.
Here's to hoping the final version fixes some of this.
I'm using it right now and its great. The interface is clean though its a little too windows looking though thats obviously to target the larget group of os users. Now I need to find out how to get addblock or something like it to work. I'm so used to not seeing many that I can't live without it.
Not sure if adding bittorrent functionality is a good idea unless it doesn't use up RAM when not being used.
I initially switched to Opera 8.5 from Firefox because of better security and speed. Now I use Opera primarily because I love usability features like the URL trashcan and dropdown panel that appears when clicking URL bar. But at some point, enough is enough, and adding new features can make a product worse, not better.
I just tried it and the results look very good next to the reference image.
http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html
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This is so freaking misleading. This is a technology preview guys, not even beta. Those who has tried TP1 of opera 9 would know how horribly unstable it was. In another TP there will be more feature but it'll still be unstable.
Saying Opera 9 is now available is like taking us geeks to cloud number 9 and slamming back on ground.
I tried this out today, and I'm sold. After seeing stats on how Opera is significantly faster than Firefox in almost every category, I finally decided to check it out. While I miss one or two extensions (Bugmenot and Forecast Firefox), I can do without these. Other than that, the built-in mouse gestures, keyboard + location bar shortcuts, ad block, torrents, better download manager, fast forward (hit the button or press ctrl-x and automatically go to the next page of google search results, next part of any article, ...), and so on means that out of the box it is a firefox killer, and much faster to boot.
Here was the text, with bonus download links!
It supports a supristing amount of SVG tests.
Over 90% of the ones on this page work well.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/
I have been usuing firefox for a while but i just got fed up. Ever since i switched to my new athlon64 system, firefox on linux has been dead slow. Opening up tabs takes forever, it hogs more memory than kde pracitcally. So, i switched to opera and i am loving it. It is wicked fast, and has some very slick features. I don't know if i will ever go back to firefox.
While we're on the topic of bonus links, here are some other useful resources for people who just downloaded Opera 9.0tp2:
Widgets user guide
Search engine customization tutorial
Content blocking tutorial
Setup info for tab thumbnails
(Regarding that last one, I am still convinced that tab thumbnails are kind of silly, and that Opera's tiling function is already much more useful. See here: The Problem with Tab Thumbnails)
I can't even imagine how Firefox users can stand the inferior back/forward navigation buttons, and how much delay they present.
With Opera, (pre 9.x, even,) you just click back, and the previous page jumps right up; fully rendered and ready. --With Firefox, you have to wait, and get to listen to the processor throttling up, as if this was Java 1.2 on Win95..
Firef*cks be gone..
A horse can't be sick, you know, even if he wants to.
I find the title of this story to be misleading. I got my hopes up, thinking that perhaps an official release of Opera 9 had occurred. Obviously this was not the case. Title should be "Opera 9 Technical Preview with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available".
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I really wish the Opera (and Firefox) camps would focus less on adding new features and more on stability, security, performance and standards compliance. Widgets? In-line spell check? Don't know about you, but I'd certainly prefer a smaller, faster, more secure browser that crashes less often in place of the wonders of in-line spell checking.
I am loving the SVG implementation in the Opera 9 Previews, I update information on my blog. TP2 includes several fixes to the SVG implementation over TP1 and TP1 was a HUGE leap from Opera 8.x. Opera now covers more SVG functionality than Firefox 1.5 does, and is faster on my PC.
Opera is the new native SVG implementation to beat.
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1. It is fast. Very fast. Firefox is dog slow in comparison. At least on my Linux system.
2. It is lean, very lean. 4.7MB and tonnes of features. How do these people do it?
3. It is easy on memory. Firefox has bad memory leak problems. Earlier today Firefox was taking up 300MB+ on my system. I close all tabs and it did not free any memory. Enough is enough. This is the primary reason I am ditching Firefox.
4. The keyboard shortcuts are sane and there are lots of them.
5. It is more standards compliant than Firefox.
6. It now works with maps.google.com.
7. Did I already mention that it was fast?
Maybe you should use lynx then. Or if you don't want plugins for whatever reason just install firefox.
After quickly looking through v9 I can't see how you can set the default lifetime for cookies to the current session. Sure, there's a nice interface for viewing current cookies, but for me this is a showstopper. Too many sites use cookies to operate, and I'm happy to have them track me for a few minutes, but not between sessions.
Still, competition is good, and this is certainly good competition.
Sigh. If only Opera would render MathML native, I'd use it. What's a mathematically-inclined geek who wants both pretty math (MathML) and graphs and stuff (SVG) to do?
There is an increasing demand for cell phone applications, and Opera (being multi-platform) seems well-positioned to take advantage of that. Widgets, therefore, appear to be part of Opera's cross-platform strategy.
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Selected quotes from a recent eWeek article ( http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1920351,00.a
"Opera first began encouraging people to build widgets within its software late last year with the introduction of its Opera Mobile Platform, a system meant for developers creating wireless applications to run in the company's mobile device browser."
"Ford said that Opera is hoping to make the widgets capable of working across many different types of devices, from PCs to mobiles and even consumer electronics."
"Opera Mobile Platform, for instance, allows developers to build widgets that can work on wireless devices running completely different operating systems, which could help push development across other types of machines, Ford said."
(Thomas Ford is an Opera spokesman)
Here are some additional links with more information and screenshots, so you won't have to wade through all of the Opera forums to find them:
http://virtuelvis.com/
This was released yesterday, you could have gotten it from snapshot.opera.com This is also when I submitted the story using the new browser wth links to the change log. Though it seems you only get stories posted by Scuttlemonkey if you have a paypal account.
2006-02-07 13:35:26 New Opera Preview Out (Index,Software) (rejected)
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I downloaded the stable Opera 8.5 a few days ago, and I have to say (as a current Firefox on Windows user) that Opera has an awful lot going for it. It's fast and seems a lot less bloated and quirky than Firefox, plus I've been finding a few features I really like.
But the one issue that kind of blows it for me is the page zooming. I happen to be one of the many people who due to eyesight issues often increase the browser's text size. One thing I love about Firefox over IE is that it has an easy hot key to up the text size (Ctrl-+). In Opera, there only seems to "Zoom", which although it has a greater amount of control, has the unfortunate behavior of stretching the graphics in proprotion to the text (FF and IE leave the graphics at their regular size no matter what the text size is). While I can appreciate that idea in theory, in practice most web graphics are simply not designed to scale that way, and the result is that if you want to browse with enlarged text (which I often do), you have to suffer with ugly, pixelated, and often overlapping images. Not to mention that the text itself renders oddly in many zoom levels. And there doesn't seem to be any option to change it.
It's bad enough that I think the vast majority of people who use enlarged text would reject Opera because of it. And that's a shame because Opera has so much else going for it.
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When I find a Flashblock extension for Opera I'll give 'er another shot. Until then, it's basically useless. Honestly, how did we survive before Flashblock?? And the Gmail Manager, of course :)
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Alas, no linux-amd64 version seems to be available for now, so I won't be trying it out anytime soon.
FINALLY, they fixed this old problem with Opera. ctrl+enter now completes a web address with www and com, something ie and firefox have had for years.
I wonder if they have added the relativly simple config option, that when you close tab N, it moves focus to tab N-1 - apparently there have been some sort of political movenment against adding this open - the mind boggles.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Been using this now and tried to find all the hidden goodies, and here's my few tips. Note that all shortcuts mentioned are only tested on Windows:
Hm.. well that's what I've found so far
What version of Opera did you last use? Opera 8 does exactly what you're talking about too, as did Opera 6 and 7, if I remember correctly.
More FUD and false claims from yet another Slashdotter who hasn't used a version of Opera for years but talks like they're some sort of expert.
The mind does indeed boggle... at the foolishness of this and many of the other anti-Opera statements that so often crop up in stories on Slashdot.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Why don't you just increase the minimum font size?
[Tools - Preferences - Advanced - Fonts - 'Minimum font size (pixels)']
Something that's not mentioned is the new UI for the "content blocker". Click somewhere on a page and select "Content blocker..." from the context menu, then all HTML elements on the page is faded besides those that are blockable and you can click on to block/unblock (it's a toggle). If you want more flexibility, you can, while in that "blocker" mode, click on the "Details" button on the toolbar to customize the wildcard matching as you wish. When you're done, just click OK and the matching elements will be blocked.
:-)
I find it an easy to use implementation of an ad blocker, and with many users actually having liked Opera but used Firefox due to its ad blocking functionality with Adblock (among the most popular Firefox extensions there is), this should maybe make Opera more interesting again.
Granted, it's not as feature rich as Adblock, but with an easy "click to block" implementation, basic wildcard matching (not sure of regular expressions), and Flash support, I think it's actually enough for most users. It sure is for me anyway.
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Instead of a polite comment you are extremely rude, bordering on the hysterical, clearly they don't implement this for religious/political reasons. And next time be polite kid.
What version of Opera did you last use? Opera 8 does exactly what you're talking about too, as did Opera 6 and 7, if I remember correctly.
8.5 - and I tried it 5 seconds ago.
More FUD and false claims from yet another Slashdotter who hasn't used a version of Opera for years but talks like they're some sort of expert.
The mind does indeed boggle... at the foolishness of this and many of the other anti-Opera statements that so often crop up in stories on Slashdot.
I fail to see why you need to lie.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
no NAT, PnP, DHT, you have to open firewall, may be you have to change ports because 6881 is blacklisted.... No thanks we don't need to spend a week to figure it out. Save link as/ open with Azureus will work just fine..
Not sure if this has been shown yet, but I noticed this about 5 hours after testing out Opera9: http://tektek.org/misc/opera9.png Kind of a neat little add-in, not sure how much use it will be to me though.
Why don't you just increase the minimum font size?
They had been intending on including it with v 8.5, and prior to that 8.0. They've been working on it for a while now.
On the other hand, I'm guessing the average firefox developer has a bittorrent client already, and why download a plug-in for your browser when you can just download a separate app?
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A major development is the addition of XSLT support using a native XSLTProcessor object just like Mozilla. This is significant because Opera has been strongly opposing XSLT for a long time now. Web developers using XSLT for the presentation layer would find this news heartening.
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At least thats one of the reasons for being that small and fast.
Some others are probably functions that are used across the whole package.
The News reader, mail client, BT thingy and the browser probably all share moste of the functions / code..
In the kde 4.0 release the kget download manager (used with konqueror) has bittorent support on the cvs dev server I noticed.
And yet, it will still be underrated as hell.
.ini files and some simple tutorials.
The mainstream user will still use Virus & Worms Installer(tm) and the tech inclined will still be using Firefox.
I've been using it since version 6, (yes they have adbar, so what) and I love the easy way you could finetune and change the whole browser just by looking at the
That being said, I find the newer version to be buggier, and I get this feeling that they're trying to "hide" the inner workings. Dumbing downs, I love it so much.
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Actually the CTRL +- works for Opera as well. If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you may opt to hold CTRL while scrolling the wheel.
You copied that one from me, dude :)
Check it out dudes - amongst widgets they include bash.org reader (by Opera!). Can you imagine this in MSIE or even FF? What's next? - out-of-the-box porn grabber? Those guys are cool, I guess... (And they know how to program effectively).
I just found out that the chat on deviantart.com has uber problems on opera. I love idling on there, it apparently has something to do with opera javascript implementation not being able to work with the java/flash plugins properly. I guess i should stop idling on the chat so much but this is still a large backstep in my full move to opera.
Unfortunately.... still a browswer without a way of easily installing Adblock! Opera's great, but I'll never switch until I can easily implement Adblock.
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I think it is a extreme that people try to imagine a great browser war and always forecast a doom for one or another browser, when it is really an on-going healthy competition among various browsers.
Opera doesn't have to be an IE/Mozilla killer. And there seems to be a sizable percentage of Mozilla zealots who can't accept that viable alteratives to their personally preferred software exist, though I don't think this is the majority by far, and feel the need to bash Opera.
How many times have I been flamed for even mentioning Opera over the years just to have some Mozilla zealot try to preach to me about features that Opera already has. (At least now a good portion are now aware that Opera also has tabs.)
Again, this isn't every Mozilla zealot who hates on Opera, but the ones who do are often the loudest (read: obnoxious).
I have been disappointed with Opera's support for DHTML and CSS. It is questionabled at best and downright useless at worst. I've got code here that pushes DHTML to its limits and it just plain doesn't run on Opera. And even worse is that it isn't easy to debug. Even IE has the script debugger which makes it *somewhat* useable... Anyways, I'm hoping that Opera soon changes this and focuses on ECMA standard script running. It'll be nice to add another browser to our supported list.
The default behavior of all Opera versions (at least up to 9, I havent tried 9 yet) is to go to the last _active_ tab upon the closing of a currently active tab... This "feature" has been heavily debated for quite a while now by different camps in the user community.
Since it was originally an MDI app, alot of users who were accustomed to the much more powerful window management prefer more advanced tab management behavior like this. Users coming from other browsers who have never used an MDI based browser are often left confused by it. Like I said it is still debated over quite a bit so I dont know which side will win this argument
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All the features firefox has were in opera before they were in firefox. Why would this be any different?
Yeah sure.
In Opera I can press Shift-F12 and set the tab-bar anywhere I want, I mean, below the page content. I can drag & drop anything from any toolbar to any other however I want.
Now you tell me how can I put the tab-bar in FF below the page content and just over the task bar.
Please. I'm listening.
We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.
I'm sure It has nothing to do with features. FF has that "Fighting the system" feeling that you would lose if you go to Opera.
However, a lot of practical people like me really prefer to use the best browser ever =)
I won't write about the nice features of Opera (I already did that in the past flamewars, just browse my posts) because FF just has that "religious fanatical user" mindset.
For other people: use the best tool for your needs, don't mind political agendas.
We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.
Is it just me, or are the Opera widgets just a lame gimmick? They don't seem to offer any benefit over the multiple other widget packages out there (konfabulator, dashboard, etc.) and they don't stay open when you close your browser. So why would I want to use these as opposed to some other widget implementation that runs independently of my browser? If they would separate them out, for example, so that they used all of the Opera rendering libraries but ran in a separate process (that could be set to start automatically at login) I think it might be a really neat idea, but from what information they have available on the site, they look pretty lame.
If I don't put anything here, will anyone recognize me anymore?
http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/
At least I prefer to write LaTeX than XML and find the output of jsMath so nice looking.
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So even without reading TFA - hell, even the Slashdot item that clearly says improved content blocking - you come here whining about Adblock?
Why can't they just bundle uTorrent or something with Firefox (or a Firefox extension) and make it the registered handler for .torrent files and/or whatever MIME type a torrent file shows up as?
Okay, so that may not be as wonderful as having one totally integrated into Firefox, but it has the advantage of being a lot easier to do.
The site preferences and preview features both seem like they were ganked from OmniWeb 5, which has both for a while now. Same with the improved content and pop-up blocker.
Well, now that people are finally getting up to OW's level, I'm going to be VERY interested in what the OmniGroup comes up with next to compete.
Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Netscape Communicator 4.0 automatically do this. Just type a single word into the location and press Enter. It automatically fills the http://www/ and .com. If you type two or more words separated by a space, then it would perform a net search on those terms. Even Lynx automatically searches for .com then .net and so on.
Who needs Control-Enter anyway?
Tools / Advanced / JavaScript Console
Granted, it's not a debugger, but it should at least provide you with some insight... Anyway, if there's a bug in Opera, I'm sure the lovely folks there would like to hear about it and fix it.
For your information, you can simply use the + - keys on the numpad (or on the main keyboard section) and it will scale text. Also, next to the zoom dropdown (where you can select the zoom with your mouse), there is a button called fit to window width - give it a shot.
If you have no need for the images when zooming, you can just disable them. Pressing "g" will cycle through pictures, pictures from cache, and no pictures.
Also, under View -> Images.
There is the "block content" bit in Opera 9, though.
(Right click on a page somewhere and go "block content", anything not grayed out you can click on and it'll be blocked..)
My email addy? should be easy enough.
Yeah! Forgot to mention that/those..
In case I've missed something in your tips; a simple hold_ALT + [left/right] (keyboard keys) will also do the trick.
Nice to see another dedicated Opera-user! -way to GO!!
A horse can't be sick, you know, even if he wants to.
Is there anyway to get BitTorrent to work from behind a firewall? Seems like standard http-proxies (ex. squid) and socks_proxies aren't up to the task. :-(
Does setting the minimum font size in Preferences } Advanced } Fonts help at all?
My other body is also not wearing any.
Oh yes, there is...
Hello, OperaAdFilter: http://www.operaadfilter.com/
With this + the flashblock script from userjs.org I don't even have to bother with manually blocking ads 90% of the time, just update a server list every couple of days.