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Opera's Slashdot Easter Egg and Speed Dial

Posted by kdawson on from the easter-already? dept.

Thelomen writes "Opera Browser contains an Easter egg that is not widely known, recently reported over at OperaWatch.com: type /. in the address bar and you are taken directly to slashdot.org. Other recent news from Opera is their new Speed Dial feature, present in the most recent build from Desktop Team. At first glance Speed Dial just looks like 9 bookmarks you can open with CTRL+1 to CTRL+9. However, the pages on the Speed Dial are shown in thumbnail and are automatically pre-fetched in background — a useful thing if you have some heavy pages among your top bookmarks."

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  1. easter egg? by omeomi · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cool, yes. But as easer eggs go, kinda lame...where's the fighting monster video or hidden game?

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  2. Not an easter egg! by zsau · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's not an easter egg. Easter eggs are hidden features which are unrelated to the main task of the program. Usually they give credit to the team in a fun way.

    At best, this is an undocumented shortcut. Lots of software has them.

    (You can tell it wasn't hidden, because the obvious shortcut for "slashdot" is "/.". If it were hidden, you'd be doing something completely unlikely and suddenly and unexpectedly get to Slashdot, like pressing Ctrl+Alt+/, then Shift+Meta+., then double clicking on the "Help" menu item.)

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  3. Free Mac? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So where did you get the free Mac..?
    Or did I miss the end of that analogy?

  4. Re:Opera runs without hardware DEP by Ilgaz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is a funny thing to bring up for this specific browser title, Opera.

    Opera has been packing executable for years and I can't remember a single buffer overrun bug in the wild.

    You can say ANYTHING about Opera but you can't say it is insecure, period.

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