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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."
Richard Stallman, is that you?
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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I think not, He'd be asking for GPL
If you want to further edit torrent functionality, take a look at opera:config.
The scary thing is that I think you're serious.
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
Why does my post history abruptly stop? I want to laugh at the stupid things I posted as a kid.
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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I would be shocked if you could prove that you have ever modified the source of Konquerer, much less contributed to the code base. More likely you are just another guy screaming the have the source code without the ability to personally do anything with it. I know, you never actually do scan code of open source products, but you could if you wanted too.
I agree.
..... and we have to make it look like a proper movement. And we have to convince ordinary people of why it's important. "Eat this nice cake, but don't ask what ingredients are in it because that's none of your business!"
You're not going to get very far being anonymous, though. Create a proper login and use it.
Meanwhile, we have to get writing to our elected representatives stressing the importance of Source Code Access and how it benefits everyone
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Opera is such a solid piece of work, I use nothing else nowadays. Although my main reason for this is that Opera has automatic tiling; all my tabs appear next to each other. Also resizing webpages works flawlessly, text and images are always enlarged properly. Both are mighty handy when you surf on a 30" screen.
No, no. That's just Theo de Raadt. All the zealots look the same anyway,
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You're going to need a better metaphor. For instance, I've cooked tremendous amounts of food for large numbers of people, and most never cared how it was made.
Even throwing out the personal anecdote, there are a lot of "secret" recipes out there in various bakeries and restaurants, and even most food sold in stores gets vague with the ingredient list when it comes to flavoring.
Of course, in my opinion, source code access isn't all that important. It's nice when it's there, but I don't get my panties in a bunch when it isn't. And I'm one of the tiny minority of people worldwide who could understand it.
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Jee's, do you have to go and destroy this guy's paranoid fantasy?
There have been bookmark synchronization extensions for Opera already...
The synchronization still doesn't compare to Google browser sync.
Until I have a browser that's multiplatform, allows online synchronization of passwords, cookies and bookmarks (no manual FTPing files about, file shares -- don't work too well since I may have more than one computer's browser open), ability to import Firefox's passwords, cookies, bookmarks -- there is no alternative to Firefox for me.
I suppose at the very worst I could go through my passwords and enter them manually in Opera, but I have so many.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
How are they greedy if they don't charge for their desktop browser, especially if that's the only browser of theirs that you use? If somebody is trying to integrate their program in with their system and make a profit off of it (e.g. Wii), then it makes sense to me that Opera should get a small profit. They don't have to, but I seriously question how doing so is Evil(TM)
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Been eagerly awaiting Kestrel for months now. I already think Opera is miles ahead of any other browser around, these latest changes put it further ahead.
I tried Firefox for a while, but it was extremenly frustrating, security vunrabilities what seemed like every few days, and more bloat and memory useage that I wanted.
I tried Opera, and after an initial learning period, came to love it. The fact I can use Opera on my destkop, my mobile, my PS3, my Wii is a bonus. The fact I will soon be able to have synced bookmarks between all of these devices is awesome.
What i would like to see is a way to synchronize both Opera and Firefox Bookmarks with each other seamlessly.
All solutions I have seen so far seemed to result in either overwritten or duplicated bookmarks.
Synchronizing passwords would be nice too.
This forced me to choose one browser for almost all my surfing, which ended up being opera, but I figure others may choose differently, so this would benefit Opera too.
...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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Nothing in the openness of closedness of the code preventes anyone from changing the results of Folding@Home... that would be security through obscurity,something we know does not work (or you should now after being in slashdot since... forever AC).
The proper way to prevent such things is via cyptographic techniques sucha as encryption and/or digital signatures, which I know not a lot about but am sure a fellow slashdotter eager to demonstrate their knowledge will extend upon.
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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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Yeah but if civilisation falls to the machines and he's sat in nuked out wasteland googling for ways to bring those metal bastards down at least he knows his web browser is working for him and not for the damn robots.
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Aside from the welcome tweak to the "remember password?" dialog, I'm satisfied with the browser as-is. I'm more excited about the rendering engine upgrades, like the improved CSS support.
...And when will we get the 3d Canvas?
Have they also improved SVG & XSLT support? Specifically, cross-document <use/> and the "document()" selector?
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
It's kind of like preferring Wikipedia to that 2 year old Encyclopedia Brittanica on the shelf. There are valid reasons to prefer Wikipedia even if you never edit it.
That said, I like Opera. It doesn't feel right for my default browser, but it is good. They've made a couple of small improvements that I've suggested on their blogs. I hope the small Norwegian company continues to do well, with phone browsers and all their other products.
Light, fast, loads quickly, rarely crashes, has some innovative features that the vaunted Apple "interface gurus" could learn from. What's not to like about Opera? I'd like to see it market itself more aggressively.
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Errm, 9.5 Kestrel comes in 64bit builds for *nix systems (no Win/Mac 64..)
Does Opera 9.5 have a UI for this function yet?
If we're going to pull 'facts' out of our collective ass, I'll state that most Firefox users probably don't even realise you can do such a thing.
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...And Mozilla is forgetting the very nice Thunderbird.
I knew there was a reason why, when the summary implied that "everyone who uses Firefox is syncing their bookmarks," I had never heard of such a thing. From the Foxmarks Web site:
Great. Another service driven by selling marketing data about me to companies I've never heard of. No f'in thank you.Breakfast served all day!
>But if you don't trust Google to keep your bookmarks secure, how can you trust their program to do a proper encryption? Maybe they have a backdoor there that will allow them to access your "encrypted" bookmarks. There is no such thing as trusting them somewhat.
That's not true: you're using OS XXX, but you know that this OS has flaws so you patch it.
Without encryption, to send sensitive data to a provider, you must bet that he is able to keep his servers secure for outside and inside threats forever, with encryption you only need to bet that he is able to do proper encryption, a much safer bet.
Easy as that, you can also edit the advert URL to add wildcards.
Opera has better ad blocking that any other browser I have seen (Including Firefox).
By this point, most Firefox users have grown accustomed to keeping their bookmarks synchronized with an online service
Oh really? I've been using it since it was Phoenix and didn't know it could do this. Nor have I ever read about anyone doing this, nor talked with any of my many Firefox-using friends who mentioned it.
Nahhh, he said BSDL, it must be Theo :-P
Because everything else does and at my work we're about to make opera users very sad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPNEGO
Netscape Communicator 4.5-4.8 had roaming profiles which sync'ed your bookmarks with a LDAP server and your address book, cookies too. This feature kept me using Netscape long after it was really dead, for some reason people seem to have forgotten about this great feature. http://www.acns.colostate.edu/aspx/www.acns/bulls/ nsroaming_whatsroaming.html http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/1411/LWD990901netsca pe/ http://www.geocities.com/petru2/netscape_roaming.h tml
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Can RSS feeds be synced with myopera.com?
Sure, Opera is fast ..
But speed doesnt matter when it fails to display so many web pages properly.
Call me back when Opera is as compatible with websites as Firefox or IE.
George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
is a good idea. Do we know their servers can keep up with the load of every Opera user syncing their bookmarks?
Being able to sync with any service would be better. Is that available?
I frequently consider dumping Firefox for Opera, as I'm getting really tired of random Firefox bugs and performance problems with heavy JavaScript sites. Today I tried to upload some images to ImageShack - first, Firefox wouldn't do the login properly, then after an image or two it insisted on trying to open the PHP page instead of returning the updated page to me. I don't know if this was strictly a problem with Firefox or a problem with the ImageShack server, but a reboot eliminated the problem. It would seem Firefox simply got confused about the JavaScript involved somehow.
I do appreciate some of the extensions to Firefox such as DownThemAll and ImageHost Grabber. But they really need to concentrate more on making it rock solid rather than adding features. Opera has had its problems, too - I've had issues with downloads failing if I'm browsing in Firefox at the same time - probably some sort of timeout issue.
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I realize the parent is just a troll, but I want to point out that Opera is definately not evil! I have been working for Opera since may, and I have found the culture within the company is amazing! The environment is great and the people working there are very friendly.
:-) Right here I actually get somewhere around 1Mb connection, wireless! Now I can talk to my brother who is studying in Australia for free.
On friday August 10th, I became very ill. I was rushed to a hospital and was given treatment. After two days and a lot of tests, the doctors found that my heart is not working as it should. It seems that I have had this condition for quite a while, at least for several years.
Long story short, I'm still in the hospital and tomorrow I'm operating in an ICD, a heart starter. All the time while I've been here, Anne (personell manager), have visited me regularily. When I was tired of the regular hospital food, they've brought me something else to eat. They got me flowers and twice they brought lots of colorful "get well" balloons, which really shines up the boring hostpital-white-walls. I've had plenty of visits from other colleguaes as well so there is no need for anyone to feel alone here. Even if you are coming from far away to work here, Opera will definately take care of you.
The hospital here doesn't provide internet access for patients, but Opera (or actually the CEO, Jon) lent me a NetCom subscription for wireless 3G-ultra. This is what I'm using to post this comment, and it works great
Oh and I'm living in Norway, so I have no monetary problems while being treated. I also get full pay while in the hospital, so I have absolutely no worries about money. All I have to do, is to relax and get enough sleep.
Speaking of sleep... It's midnight and I have to get up tomorrow and have an operation.
Thanks to everyone at Opera! "I'll be back" 8-)
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Updating block lists? That level of ad-phobia is insane. Anyway, in Opera you use wildcards in the block URLs instead, "http://ads.*" catches a wide swath of ad services.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
The best thing that could happen to Opera would be an open source or Free software version. The lack of an open source Opera is exactly what keeps Opera so low in the browser popularity charts. Kudos to Opera for creating a great desktop and mobile browser, and I have to admit that I am amazed at the quality of their software given the fact that they chose the closed source model, but I think their days in business are numbered unless they learn how to make a profit while letting the code be free, preferably under the GPL. It *is* possible to give away the source and still manage to run a profitable business.
Of course block lists need to be updating. If there weren't every ad provider would eventually change to cats.* servers and your block list would stop working. As soon as Opera gets something even close to Adblock plus I'll be switching, but until that happens I simply get a better experience on the web when I'm using Firefox.
I don't really use bookmarks that much (even though with this I might start to). What I really want is can we please please PLEASE have RSS sync? Please?
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Why the difficult way? All the Opera pages I've seen say to use about:config and untick the Enable box under the BitTorrent category.
Sig is for Signature, so you don't have to manually sign every post.
Opera is already the best browser there is, been using it since the old 3.x days. It has consistently proved itself to be more elegant, faster, more stable, much much less buggy or crash prone and much smaller and slicker than its alternatives, and I even use it on my sony ericsson phone. Great going opera.
Because:
a) If anyone wants to alter any other MIME handling behaviour (e.g. get PDF's to open in Foxit), they'll now know how
b) I wasn't aware of the enable/disable bit in opera:config, cheers for that!
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You can grab it here:
http://snapshot.opera.com/
So you work for Opera? Cool... I applied once, but didn't get in. Anyhow I'm working in Norway now too. Good luck with the operation. -- 1 + 1 + 1 == 11
I've been using Opera for about two years, and since the 9.x it became unbearably slow. I now use firefox or IE instead. Other people have reported the same behaviour and believe it has to do with some nasty interaction with Symantec's AV.
You have a heart condition and you're reading Slashdot? Well, at least we know you have balls of steel.
Actually, they are about 40% dolomite.
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It is called gratitude and optimism. Try it out, it's great!
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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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Is this source code delicious? Because otherwise there's no reason for the average user to request it.
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