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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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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
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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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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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.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
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?
Because everything else does and at my work we're about to make opera users very sad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPNEGO
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
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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When people then are asked to identify the "so many web pages" they invariably come up with some shitty Active/X reliant application. And no, Opera will not support that.
However: If I see a site that does not work in Opera and an equivalent site that does, I conclude the author of the first site has a problem - not Opera. Saying that Opera should have even more error correction than today is like the doctor in the classic joke:
- Doctor, it hurst when I do this!
- Then don't do it!
HTML was designed to present information in a way the USER preferred. Your use of "properly" means the web page designer has some right to overrule the user's preferences. Which seems to be the way things are headed, tragically...
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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