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A Preview of Opera 9.5
jrowl writes "Opera 9.5 Alpha is scheduled to be released tomorrow, and CyberNet has a review of the browser's new features based on preview code. Some of the most prominent new options include a full history search, bookmark and Speed Dial syncing, and an 'Open with' menu option to pull up a website in another browser that's installed on your PC. 'This is one of those things that I had said Opera needs to work on the most. By this point, most Firefox users have grown accustomed to keeping their bookmarks synchronized with an online service. Now Opera users will have the same pleasure! All you need is a free My Opera account, and you'll be able to privately synchronize your bookmarks, Speed Dial sites, and Personal Bar with their server. You'll then be able to access that data whether you're at work, home, or anywhere! To setup synchronization just select the "Synchronize with My Opera" option from the File Menu.' There's also a video to go along with the text."
tools > preferences > advanced > downloads > untick "hide files opened with opera", find "torrent", edit to your hearts content. Same for any other MIME type.
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If you want to further edit torrent functionality, take a look at opera:config.
Tools > Preferences, click the Advanced tab, uncheck "hide file types opened with opera", search the list for "applicaion/x-bittorrent", click edit and select "open with default application".
.torrent file.
They really should make it much easier to change this, the opera client is horrible for those of us who are already familiar with other clients. It was probably designed for those people who don't really know what to do with a
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To the best of my knowledge, Firefox does not have automatic syncing of bookmarks with a central server. There are definitely add-ons that allow it (such as foxmarks and the google toolbar (I think)). From this point of view, I think Opera has one up on Firefox by including it in the default installation (unless you don't believe in adding features to a browser that not everyone will use, of course).
Please note: I am not an Opera user. I use Firefox (with foxmarks).
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Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
...although there's a few features that haven't been mentioned here but were part of the developer announcement, including:
Faster tab switching in UNIX (this is one of my biggest irritations about opera at the moment - tab switchng under windows is nearly instantaneous, under X there's a perceptible delay)
QT4 builds
64bit builds
I imagine alot of this comes from the new rendering engine which is probably 64bit clean. It would have been nice to be able to configure bookmark syncing to use something other than an external web host (it's blocked for me at work), for example using FTP or WebDAV, or even just an external shared folder.
Opera still doesn't work well with my company's filters, all of which require NTLM auth. Opera still doesn't seem to manage this successfully and asks for for a password every time I open a page, unless I pass through a local NTM proxy (NTLMAPS).
That said, it's still my favourite browser under Linux and Windows.
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http://www.apple.com/safari/
:-)
According to Apple's "objective" benchmarks, Safari and Opera are tied for everything except HTML load performance, which doesn't count because Safari cheated.
It will be interesting to see how the 9.5 performance improvements affect this
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You can grab it here:
http://snapshot.opera.com/
I'm okay :-) Hopefully they will let me out tomorrow or friday. I've been here for 4 weeks, so it feels like getting out of prison.
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