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Opera Seeks Developer Input For Opera 10

taskforce writes "Opera Watch is reporting that the folks Opera Software are asking web developers for input on what they think the most important features are which could be added into the next version of the Opera desktop browser. Considering what has been added in Opera 9, what do you think would be most important for the browser from both a developer and a user standpoint?"

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  1. Niggling by rinkjustice · · Score: 4, Informative

    Give users more monitor real estate (less toolbar, more web page) and reinvent favorites/bookmarks. Say automatic online backups to Simpy.com and an easier way of keeping bookmark catagories organized. I've recently gotten into genealogy and the links pile-up in a hurry. I almost want to use a browser exclusively for that research alone.

    The Linux support is awesome however. It's the best browser for that platform.

  2. Re:Adblock by LubosD · · Score: 4, Informative

    Opera 9 has integrated content blocking - it is quite good. You don't have to edit filter.ini any more...

  3. Opera gives you all the space you need! (scrensht) by eddy · · Score: 4, Informative

    > but even then it still usues way too much screen space for things other then the actual webpage.

    WTF?! You do know that the sidebar "Panel" toggles on and off with F4, right? Requests ought to focus on stuff that isn't already in the browser and trivially available to users to configure, don't you think?

    I'm sorry, but requesting more space for the web page is sort of insane, considering there's always full screen mode (F11). The difference between full screen and my current configuration is neglible. Here's a current full screen screenshot (~44KiB) of my setup. Explain what you want to disable and how that makes a real difference to your browsing experience.

    Personally I'd like a special tab which would include all client-server exchanges, toggable to exclude content body/show as hexa, etc.

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  4. Re:Adblock by Rits · · Score: 4, Informative
    Do you have to do this for every new ad you see? Or does Opera automagically create regexes for permanent blocking of similar ads by using your method?


    No regexes, but a simple matching expression using * is automatically created. You can also block specific images only by holding Shift while clicking. It is quite intuitive, with a simple UI with only a few buttons and a short explanation text.
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  5. Re:Extensions by Wildclaw · · Score: 4, Informative

    This should be possible with the current opera. I'll describe how to add a shortcut key that launches the current webpage in internet explorer. If you want to add it to a gui element (like the right click menu) you will probably have to edit an ini file. Anyway, here is how to add it as a keyboard shortcut, step by step.

    * Goto Tools->Preferences->Advanced->Shortcuts.
    * (Optional) Duplicate the current keyboard setup using the duplicate button.
    * Edit the keyboard setup you want to change.
    * Select the "application" entry in the list that appears and click the "New" Button
    * Enter the keyboard shortcut to the left. For example: i ctrl shift alt
    * To the right enter the following: Execute program, "iexplore.exe", "%u"

    Now, whenever you click ctrl+shift+alt+i, internet explorer should launch using the current url as an argument.