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Opera Goes To 11, With Extensions and Tab Stacks
surveyork writes "Opera Software released Opera browser 11 for desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc). The main features are support for extensions similar to Chrome and Tab Stacks, Opera's version of tab management. The extension catalog is still small, with roughly 200 extensions, but steadily growing. The browser is very fast — Chrome-fast — and lightweight, with a new installer which is 30% smaller than the one in the previous version. Other enhancements include visual mouse gestures and better address field. There's no hardware acceleration yet, but it could be coming in a further dot release and benefit XP users as well as Mac, Linux and Windows 7/Vista users."
Why don't you just make 10 better? And make 10 be the top, number... and make that a little better?
I tried Opera last time. It looks quite a bit like FF 4. Which itself is looking somewhat similar to Chrome.
Meh, at this point in time, it hardly matters which browser you use - so long as its not IE6... So browser wars can stop now ;)
But at least all this competition is putting a lot of push into better browsers.
Only took seven years, but now I'm using them and liking them. Would probably prefer them to expand vertically instead of horizontally, and while I realize it's a niche-request and might not work well in practice, I'd still like the ability to automatically redirect pages into groups using regex against title/url/whatever.
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No, you weren't... http://www.zdnet.be/zd_images/2010/48/opera11.jpg
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I can't be the only one who thought of this...
Ya, I'm sure the guy who wrote the headline Opera Goes To 11 never thought of the connection to Spinal Tap.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
Preferences -> Advanced -> Shortcuts -> Enable visual hints... I personally use mouse gestures so I don't need to use menus. They also changed the close tab which is really the only movement gesture I used (apart from the button flips), it prompted me to look at the settings more carefully and remove everything else so now it's just GestureRight; setting it to the old style GestureRight, GestureLeft, GestureRight failed 50% of the time.
You didn't even read the title?
I haven't used Opera's tab stacking yet, but it sounds a lot like one of the features the Tree Style Tab add-on adds to Firefox. It's quite a flexible add-on, and if you constantly have a lot of tabs open or would prefer to have a hierarchical tab list on the side to save vertical real estate (especially if you have a 16:9 monitor), it can revolutionize your world almost as much as tabs did originally. I can't recommend it enough.
Yay, THREE!
Firefox is my primary browser, but I do have Opera installed and keep it updated. One annoying bug that's been around for a while is that middle-clicking on a link does not set the Referrer header. This causes a number of *ahem* "image-hosting" websites to throw their hotlink prevention message at you.
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
How is Opera "Chrome Fast"? Shouldn't it be Chrome that is almost opera fast?
Based on both age and lots of tests...
The stack concept is an interesting alternative to Firefox's panorama. I find the former convenient with a small amount of tabs.
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I've been using Opera 11 for a few days now and I'm enjoying it. It feels faster than version 10. I think it's more stable too, based on my testing so far.
dammit! For liek 3 weeks they just kept throwing mod points at me and half the time I couldn't even use them up. And now, here I sit without any mod points...
I keep trying Opera and I keep being disappointed. I guess it's just not for me. The text rendering is worse, the chrome takes up more room, the form elements are not native looking, the url input seems more rudimentary than others, its image rendering doesn't seem to be color-space-aware, and its rendering quirks are somehow louder than other browsers' quirks.
It may very well be numerically faster than other browsers, but it doesn't feel faster. I don't really care if a gmail inbox takes 5 seconds to render -- I can always switch away and read twitter or whatever in the meantime. Opera does have many UI innovations, but they always seem to lack polish to my eye.
I just want a browser that is "fast enough", gets out of my way, and is thoughtfully designed for human interaction. It is my impression that Chrome, Safari, and Firefox are all better in this regard.
I don't mean this to be a dig against Opera or the people who make it. I realize that it takes an extraordinary amount of effort and magic to produce Opera. I'm just curious why people like it, and if it will ever make it beyond a niche product on the desktop.
There aint no pancake so thin it doesn't have two sides.
So... when do we get noscript for opera?
Yes, but here we have ELEVEN.
Programmers at Opera have proven to me that they are a force to be reckoned with. If the Firefox team had just 3/4 of the ambition of Opera folks, Firefox would be quite advanced. Credit goes to them. The [frequent] releases they make are a testimony to their skill.
As far as Javascript performance goes, I'm ok with with Opera and Chromium. The area that Chromium really lags is when opening new tabs in the background, perhaps HTML/CSS rendering. Every time I open an new tab in the background with Chromium, the browser lags so badly that I can't even scroll the current, fully loaded tab.
I have never had this problem with Opera and that's why I like it more. It's not just fast at Javascript, it's fast at everything.
Bullshit. AdBlock is a whole lot more advanced than basically blocking out things via a glorified hosts file. As it stands, Opera still does not have a decent AdBlock extension.
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Actually, it does have the ability to use hardware acceleration for graphics in both opengl and direct3d, it just has not been implimented in general release versions of opera yet. See this discussion for more details and a post by an Opera developer. Currently, as the links mention, Opera's rendering engine is pure software, but it seems to keep up well enough with the browsers that have opted for hardware acceleration so far. I'm guessing they wont implement it until they can make sure it works on Windows/OSX/Linux/Unix, since they try to keep uniform support most of the time on all major Operating Systems.
I've been a long time Opera user, switching from Mozilla (pre firefox) to Opera when it became free (as in beer). However, I do get irritated by their efforts to keep up with Chrome's speed while screwing over long time users (they cant win that fight in the long run anyways, Google has way too much money). Numerous bug reports on long time stable features and major regressions happen every time they release a major update for Opera and take months or years to fix. From Opera 10.5 to pre 11, tool tips would cover up other applications even if Opera was located in the background. If you happen to have a mouse with arrow buttons for back and forward, the forward arrow button has been broke as far as using the "fast forward" feature since 10.5. At one point, during the version 11 betas, the arrow buttons were broke period (though it was a development release so one cannot really complain about that). With Opera 11, their famous mouse gestures are also partially broken with their implementation of a graphical interface for showing what gestures do what when you hold down the right mouse button. One of the more useful gestures was "right" + "left" + "right" (closes the current window). Now, with the changes they have made, this gesture only works half the time, but they have said they will fix it, but it's tied into the UI they implemented, so it will probably be a while.
They do generally listen to their users. They decided to force chrome like urls on their users during the Opera 11 development (removing "http://" and any of the args after *.com such as ?id=12345) claiming it would make users less likely to click fraudulent links. However, if you're a developer, seeing the arguments is a must and not seeing "http://" or "https://" or "ftp://" is just kind of silly, since sometimes you like to know what protocol you are using instead of guessing through some abstract replacement graphic. Since opera has never been a browser to appeal to novice internet users, dumbing it down seems kind of counter intuitive.
Opera is still my primary browser (except for development--I prefer Firefox/Firebug for that over Opera Dragonfly, but it seems every new version they release, I dread what long time feature they will break next. They haven't frustrated me enough to want to modify the Chromium source code to natively have all the features of Opera, but I wouldn't hold my breath on it for Opera 12.
Some of the things you mention are just false though. I notice no difference with text rendering on my HD screen, the chrome takes up less room than both IE and FF*, although not Chrome, the form elements look identical to the ones rendered in any other browser...URL input also is no different...seemingly you have simply made these things up.
I should have clarified -- I'm on OS X. I assure you that I am not making anything up. HTML forms don't look anything like Cocoa forms, text rendering is different from every other app's text rendering, image rendering seems to use sRGB, on and on. The url autocomplete menu is a free-floating rounded thing with sub-menus and things that look like links but aren't.
Everywhere I look, it just seems like there is no attention to detail. It may well be that it is a better experience on Windows or Linux. Is it?
There aint no pancake so thin it doesn't have two sides.
Well, it's one browser, isn't it? It's not ten.
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I avoided Opera for years mainly because they're nazi like adherence to standards
Of all the things to troll about, what drives a person to do it about browsers?
It's important to adhere to standards but no to the point where most sites will not practically display. Something opera learned only recently.
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Hmmm...sorry can't speak for OS X, was going by the windows versions here.
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
Starting Opera 10 as a normal user triggers UAC randomly. Eventually I started to skip that by pressing ESC since it will still run the program normally. Hard to believe the devs caused that since Opera doesn't know how to seamlessly automatically update itself or inform you why UAC is needed and why you need to cooperate. Lots of Opera forum users sadly type their PW everytime Opera asks, many fellow forumers have no idea what's going on, so they're are just told to DISABLE UAC! Disable UAC because of malware --the exact reason UAC was created!
The devs screwed up royally and I've so far not found any workaround on their forums or elsewhere.
I don't understand why any knowledgeable user would want to use a closed-source browser nowadays. Any specific benefit Opera might have over another particular browser would be outweighed by the drawbacks, IMO.
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Since the only thing I really never want and haven't been able to control using the built-in options, are those annoying ad-things which highlight words, I've been using a user-javascript in Opera with a hook to detect and disable them. Sure, I need to manually update it a couple of times per year, but no big deal. To use, find/set your user javascript directory under "prefs->advanced->content->javascript options" and just drop the file there.
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The tech news headlines would be awesome... "Opera releases version 10.... uh, again...ffs"
meep
I just upgraded my Opera 10 installation; I have about 20-25 tabs that I start when I decide to check the internet; forums, blogs, email, facebook, etc.
Firefox grinds to a halt for about 10 seconds, and takes a total of about 20 seconds to render all of them, max CPU usage on my quad core is about 28% when I'm not doing anything else with my computer. Keep in mind this is with Adblock enabled.
Chrome maxes all 4 cores to 100% for a few seconds and then it's completely done rendering. No adblock.
Opera still only hits ~30% CPU, so it's not using much more than 1 core as well. However, it manages to complete almost as fast as Chrome. Not sure how they've managed this. Very fast I must say. And the interface doesn't grind to a halt like Firefox's, it definitely appears to be capable of prioritizing mouse-click events on the fly (to change tabs for instance).
All that said I still use Firefox on my desktop, and can't wait till they get true multi-core support.
Opera definitely has a chance on my netbook though.
I know this is a little late, but that was what they were playing off on the Beta for weeks now.
Never mind. It's still there. They just changed the name from Filters to Labels.
Amazing how few of these comments discuss the topic, and how many go on about Opera generally.
Anyway, I've wanted this feature for years, and this looks like it could be a decent implementation. I like the way the 'master tab' of a stack can be altered according to the last highlighted tab when you click "Tab Group" to stack them. One slight issue however is that it's hard to see which tabs are part of a group if the tab placement is vertical instead of horizontal.
Time will tell how all this works in the real world.
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I just wonder how the opera fanbois will mod this post.....
They probably won't, because they're too busy REPLYING.
Dunno if you're using a different OS, but my windows version opens tabs with Ctrl+T. As far as tab order goes, I have mine set to open in new background tabs, but the order has never really bothered me. When you Ctrl+Tab they go through in the order you opened them, anyway. I could almost do without the tab bar in the first place.
Richard Stallman's mindset may be overkill at times, but he's basically right. I don't want to use a closed-source browser for the same reason I don't want to use a closed-source OS, among other reasons.
I think determining which browser is more secure is more complex than simply checking a vulnerabilities list. There are all sorts of other variables and factors that play into the number, which may or may not be representative of reality.
Opera seems like a good bunch of people, so I'm not especially worried about their doing anything malicious. But when there are excellent open-source alternatives, why even bother?
If you truly don't care about Free Software, then you have missed the point, and I wouldn't expect you to care about open-source browsers. I think that Free Software is better in principle, in theory, and in practice. It's more future-proof than being locked-in to any company's closed-source software. And as time goes on, it will become even more important, because the power of marketing and media and government conglomerates will continue to grow, and Free Software is nearly the only way to retain user freedoms and privacy, and control over one's own hardware, software, and data.
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Ctrl + T opens a new tab yes. I was talking about splitting up right clicking and openening a link in a tab, and using ctrl + t to open a blank tab. Unlike in FF, I cannot seperate these actions, which is annoying.
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Huh. I never even knew you could do that. I've never really been too aware of the advanced tab features in browsers cos I never have more than four or five open anyway.
You know you can middle-click a link and it will open in a new, background tab ?
They do the same thing to me. Somehow they know how to time it so that I get them in inverse proportion to my having the time or the desire to use them.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
right-click -> block content and then hit the details button for fine tuning . . . I have to admit I don't use FF, so no idea how sophisticated their extension is . . .
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And Opera 11 *STILL* can not display 'streaming' video from webcams like the Panasonic Network Cameras, USB cams using Webcam32, etc. The last version where this worked reasonably well was v10.10. It just pisses me off that they can add tab stacking and all sorts of crud that is pretty useless (to me) and can't seem to do simple stuff that Firefox and older version of Opera do well. I've been using Opera as my usual browser since v5 (or maybe earlier, I'm old and can't remember) and like it a lot but this one thing annoys me so muck I'm about to jump ship for Firefox or something else that will fill my daily needs.
I'm tired of the browser wars and smartphone battles - it's the addons and apps that make the difference. Been using FF too long and some features are now so natural to my browsing habits that I can't (didn't say "won't") consider any other browser that apart from the usual Adblocking, Noscript, Ghostery etc security addons does not offer at least:
1. Hyperwords (integrating the Internet like it is meant to be, an immersion to a total hypertext experience)
2. Autopager (to end the endless segmentation of reality into easily digestible bits and pages)
3. YetAnotherSmoothScrolling (to bring back the paper-like hardware buffer based motion of the screen from the Amiga days)
4. Stylish (to make the horrible eye-straining white themes of the usual suspect sites more readable)
5. A truly portable version allowing to easily copy the installation around all my PCs without having to reinstall everything (including bookmarks etc) from scratch (thank you Portableapps.com!)
IMHO all of the above should by now have become standard integrated features of any browser - hell, it's been 17 years since NCSA Mosaic. Thank you FF developers of these addons!
Extensions were nice when they first appeared on Firefox. Then they become a pain, causing all sorts of problems. Your Firefox is crashing too often? Try disabling the extensions! Your Firefox is eating up your RAM? Try disabling the extensions! Headache? Have you tried disabling the extensions? I really liked browsers who stand out of extensions bandwagon, but now it's really hard to find one: Chrome, Safari even Opera have them now. I don't need to change my Twitter status form the extensions, or to learn about latest whether updates. I usually use my browser to surf the web.
This doesn't seem to get mentioned much.. I like Opera because i can hit F4 have a side tab pop out that contains a built in EMAIL system (virtual searches), bookmarks, notes, contacts, widgets, unite (merging/sharing data between computers), downloads, and history.. The mail has always been my favorite. It's embedded so that I do not have to start yet another applicaiton. It's sophisticated and easy to use..
Opera 11 has a new look to it's mail that is starting to really grow on me.. 11 also seems more stable than 10. I0 seemed to have frequent crashes on my linux box.
I also like opera because when they come out with new releases, you get upgraded flawlessly.
Also, not sure about other browsers, being a keyboard shortcut guy, it's easy to do stuff with the keyboard. E.g. spacebar pages to the bottom of the screen, click it once more and it figures out what the next link is and takes you there. E.g. you are looking at photos and have to click NEXT. You can just keep clicking spacebar. Numerous other keys are also very convenient.
Rendering is also very fast in 11. Also, for many years, any page can be blown up or reduced simply by pressing + or - keys. When I get eye fatigue, this really helps.
Over many years, I've made Opera my browser choice because they are always trying something new and succeeding. When other browsers were stuck in the mud, they consistently create new features that people like... example? Oh stuff like TABS! ?
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
That's weird, maybe it is your version of Chromium? I've recently switched to Comodo Dragon thanks to Mozilla with their "don't care, won't fix" attitude with regards to low rights mode in Vista and Win 7. It is also based on Chromium, has all the "phone home" crap cut out, and as a nice bonus offers you the choice of using the Comodo secure DNS which black holes the IP addresses of malicious spammers, scammers, and other nasties. If you are on Windows I would heartedly recommend it, it is quite nice and Adblock for Chrome works beautifully.
As for TFA, while I wish Opera nothing but luck something about their UI has always struck me as being...off. I don't know how to describe it, my oldest loves it so every time a new one comes out I give it a try on his machine but just never have been able to "get" Opera. It always feels like I'm fighting the thing. Maybe it is just one of those "love it or hate it" kind of things with no middle ground. Frankly with Chrome and Chromium I have a feeling both Opera and FireFox are gonna be in for a serious fight, Firefox because of their "cross platform or GTFO" attitude with regards to codecs and low rights mode. I mean why should I risk my customer's security just so Firefox can sit on their high horse about an OS that doesn't bloody need low rights mode anyway? And as for Opera their big selling point was speed, which frankly IMHO is mattering less and less daily. Mozilla is gonna have crazy JavaScript speed in Firefox 4, Chromium based browsers are already crazy fast, really how much fricking faster can we get? You still have to depend on a person to push the button, which means my Dragon is already faster than this old greybeard.
And allow me to finish since I'm already in my old and crotchety mode, that FF and Opera speeding up JavaScript without increasing security by using things like low rights mode seems horribly irresponsible to me. I mean we see time and time again that "JavaScript malware o' the day" is quickly getting right up there with Adobe products on the list of "things to bite you in the ass" and just means by cranking the JavaScript to 11 you are gonna make the machine get pwned really really REALLY fast, which just doesn't seem like a useful feature IMHO. At least IE and Chromium based browsers like Chrome, SWIron, Dragon, all use low rights mode to isolate the browser from the rest of the system. It just seems to me as Windows 7 replaces XP with tech like UAC, DEP, ASLR, and file and registry virtualization, the browser by virtue of it being so close to "bare metal" with the net will become the #1 attack vector if it isn't already. Anything the browser maker can do that limits the ability to be attacked is great in my book. And I apologize if Opera managed to sneak low rights mode in, but after doing a Yahoo Search all I found was folks complaining about FF and Opera not having it.
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All works fine on Linux (Ubuntu 10.10) as well. It actually looks prettier than Firefox, more polished. Text rendering is fine, forms properly constructed and Gmail looks like Gmail.
I think his main problem is that he uses MacOS *ducks*
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I don't think businesses actually think they are safer, they are simply locked into it. It's difficult to change internal infrastructures like that when you have been building around it for years.
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
I would argue that it does affect 99% of users (or whatever large majority you choose), because when someone takes that code and starts a new project (Netscape->Firefox, Konqueror->WebKit, WebKit->Chrome, Linux->Debian, Debian->Ubuntu, etc), it goes on to affect many, many people. Just because 99.9% of end users won't end up writing or compiling code is not the point at all. It's the people that end up using and benefiting from the software.
If we just gave up and used closed-source software, we'd be stuck with IE, maybe Opera (probably without extensions), and even the Mac OS might not be where it is today, based on BSD (free software often ends up benefiting proprietary software, depending on the license). Not to mention how by far the majority of the Internet runs on Linux--I shudder to think what the Internet would be like if we were stuck with IIS and the like!
No offense intended--but I think to say that to say that open-source software doesn't matter is incredibly short-sighted and naive. History and the present have shown otherwise. It saddens me whenever I hear people downplay its significance and blindly gulp down their proprietary punch. Sustainable, future-oriented, and freedom-oriented computing lies with free software. We need to support its development with, if nothing else, our "feet", lest it slip into obscurity due to the ignorance of the masses.
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Nice tip on Comodo Dragon browser - I use browsers as "sandboxed homepages", and I haven't added any good new ones for a while.
However, I am a classic menu fan. Is there an add-on or option that puts a classic menu bar on top of these browsers?
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I had some trouble with the Opera 10 series, see a couple of my other posts. I'm going to give Opera 11 a fair tryout.
Keep in mind that all kinds of things break when you compare Mac vs Windows implementations of stuff. It really is like British-American accents on english - most of it is fine, then some thing throws you.
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It does look better than the 10 series too, so per elsewhere I'm going to try it out. Hard to say on polish vs Firefox, I think that's where themes comes in.
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Yes, but it's the most numerically advanced browser.
I thought of that too, but the volume scale on my amplifier is calculated in dB. Confuses the hell out of people that the number gets "smaller" as it gets noisier, but people just don't notice that "-" sign... ;-)
The things that annoy me is that it uses shift + ctrl to open a new tab instead of the defacto standard ctrl
Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Shortcuts -> (Keyboard Setup) Edit
Configure away! You can override ANY keyboard, mouse and voice command that way. Yes, you can even change the meaning of the mouse gestures.
and there is no way to have tabs you open from a link open next to the active tab
Tools -> Preferences -> Open New Tab Next To Active
Happy?
and have new blank tabs open at the end of the browser.
By default, there's a "+" tab at the end of the browser's tab list. Not good enough?
Also, no working adblock despite what hosts files trolls say.
Gone with Opera 11, since it now supports extensions. Now, you can have Adblock, Flashblock, whatever.
So, basically, you only miss features that are TRIVIALLY easy to enable now. So, why don't you switch again? ^_^
Opera is a fine browser, my only wish is for hardware acceleration, but everything works well as it is nevertheless. I switched to it after ditching Firefox, because FF is rapidly becoming the number one target for malware. A victim of its own success I would say. So I reckon a browser with 2.5% market share is not a great target for malware writers. This is confirmed by my real-time security scanner (Secunia PSI) which tells me that it's the safest of the installed browsers, with IE and FF having gaping holes with NO known remedies...
Type "opera:config" in the address field, Enter, type "tray" in the search field, e voila "Show Tray Icon [ ]"
But yeah, there is just no way in hell to disable the Tray Icon...
In Opera you can toggle the classic menu with Alt+F11.
Well..Opera goes to 11!
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>>The things that annoy me is that it uses shift + ctrl to open a new tab instead of the defacto standard ctrl
>Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Shortcuts -> (Keyboard Setup) Edit
No, it doesn't.
You have to do a hack with User Javascript, which then means your UI changes depending on whether you have Javascript turned on or off.
I thought they would have added UI shortcuts from other browsers for the 11 release if they wanted to make a play for a wider audience.
Yes, I know there's the middle-click thing, but people still want Ctrl+Click because it's more ergonomic for them.
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>What's even stranger is that I've read the majority of Opera's operating revenue comes from Google,
What, really? I thought it was from payed preloads of Opera browsers on mobile phones/devices.
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(By a Chrome user, who also sometimes uses FF, Opera, and Chromium)
-Nice menu. Press Alt to get access to the whole menu without it taking up a lot of space.
-Quick preferences. The most used settings, accesible either from the menu or F12. Toggle Javascript with F12-J. You may not even miss NoScript.
-Trashcan for closed tabs. Ingenious.
-Thumbnail preview when you hover over a tab.
-Fonts work right on Ubuntu. That's only true for Midori, Opera, and a 1 year old version of Chrome.
-Easy on the CPU. Google Maps or other Javascript pages down cause the fan to turn, unlike Chromium or FF on Ubuntu. I usually use Opera for Javascript pages for this reason.
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No intuitive way. Now, what about the useless click to activate control crap?
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Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Shortcuts -> (Keyboard Setup) Edit
Configure away! You can override ANY keyboard, mouse and voice command that way. Yes, you can even change the meaning of the mouse gestures.
See, this is why Opera fanbois annoy me.
You actually can't do what I ask, no where can I change ctrl shift to just normal ctrl.
Tools -> Preferences -> Open New Tab Next To Active
Happy?
and have new blank tabs open at the end of the browser.
By default, there's a "+" tab at the end of the browser's tab list. Not good enough?
The + at the end of tab bar opens new tabs realtive. Which is not what I want. I want tabs open from links relative to the page I opened them from, and new blank tabs at the end of the tab bar. No way to configure that.
Gone with Opera 11, since it now supports extensions. Now, you can have Adblock, Flashblock, whatever.
So, basically, you only miss features that are TRIVIALLY easy to enable now. So, why don't you switch again? ^_^
Well, because Operas adblock is still sucky as is the extensions framework in general, and the features I miss can not be enabled in any way. Thanks though :)
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Because it's Google?
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The other poster listed Opera, so allow me to give you the one for Comodo Dragon and other Chromium browsers...install this extension and then just add/remove anything you want. I kind of like how Dragon does everything by extension, it leaves the default slim and one can simply add what they need/want.
I still miss my FF just because I had grown used to it, but I won't use a browser I won't give to my customers and with FireFox taking the "don't care, won't fix" attitude with low rights mode it is simply too unsafe to use on Vista/Windows 7. I mean what's the point of having all that extra security if Mozilla promptly punches a gaping hole in it and then waves their dinosaur winkie in your face?
But if you haven't given it a go and don't mind trying new things give the Dragon a spin. I'm running it right now and their secure DNS seems to be a little faster than both OpenDNS and my ISP DNS, and the browser really handles nicely. I just added ABP and Forecast and it has sync built in, so that pretty much covers the FF extensions I required. Give it a spin, it's nice!
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But this is completely wrong, because Opera never had that "nazi like adherence." In fact, for many years they have very specifically and in no uncertain terms continuously stated that Opera was built from the ground up to be compatible with the real web. Opera was designed to handle the real web, in addition to supporting open standards.
Why shouldn't one point out who's the innovator?
Interesting discussion, by the way...
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That is pure nonsense. They've been talking for years about how Opera was built from scratch to handle real, broken sites.
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<quote><p>-In Opera, it's ridiculous: Right click on a link. Then you have to release the button to get the menu to show. After the menu shows, "Open in Background Tab" is the 3rd option. Caution, though, don't try to click it with the same finger you just used to right-click. You have to left-click it or it doesn't take.</p></quote>
I agree that Chrome is better, but is this not the standard Windows behaviour for a contextual menu, probably Opera is trying to reach 'all the people'
... except for that fact that it STILL does not support CTRL + Click (or an equivalent option) for opening tabs in the background. Really bloody annoying.
-No Ctrl+click to open links in new tab
Shift+click does this - Opera is different in that it prefers to keep things in one window when possible.
-Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDn aren't set for next/prev tab. I know you can set it in keyboard options, but that's a huge dialog with confusing terminology for browser actions that you can easily mistake for other actions. Defaults matter.
That's an obscure one - try using ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab - that's the standard these days for switching among tabs in a window.
-Right-click problems
Some of those are because of Opera's keeping things in the same window policy, but mostly it's because right click does so much more in Opera than other browsers (namely mouse gestures).
-Search. Ctrl+F and type something. The search words are highlighted, which is good, but it shades the rest of the screen. Not good. Also grey on grey isn't a great highlight color. Also it doesn't have the scrollbar search hit indicator lines like Chrome.
I usually use / to search personally. Shading the rest of the screen makes the highlighted text standout more. Might be your system settings, but mine show up as yellow(active) and green(others), not gray.
To be fair to FF, just because they are not making use of WIC does not mean they are "punching a gaping hole in it".
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
That only happens to me with Slashdot... Same with the stupid copy and paste bug. Every other page works fine.
As for speed, I don't think it really matters anymore. I can't really tell the difference between Safari, Chrome/ium, and Firefox. I haven't used Opera lately, but I'm guessing it is more of the same. Browser choice has really become just that; an arbitrary choice based on preference.
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How the hell did you get the pet troll?
How many times a day do you have to feed him? Is he litter box trained? Will he fetch your slippers?
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Oh Lord, its you, the crazy hosts file troll. What do you think this is, 1997? What are you on Win98 First Edition or something? I mean WTF, nobody uses your tired old crap anymore, okay? We have things like Privoxy and Comodo Secure DNS and Peerblock, we don't need some tired old text file bullshit. And don't bring up resources because nobody gives a good wet fart. We have more RAM than God and CPUs with gold plated dangling bits so we really don't give a crap about saving a whole 30KB of resources.
so why don't you go push your tired old leet speak and equally tired old text file down at the goodwill where there are machines old enough that editing text files to save a couple of KB of RAM and CPU might actually be worth it. The rest of us grownups have better things to do, okay junior? I know you think that just because you have found out about a HOSTS file recently makes it the greatest thing since sliced bread, but the rest of us outgrew that shit when you were still sitting in a nappy full of your own poo.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Buggy? Even the beta was more stable than most final software.
That has been possible for many years.
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On the contrary, spoofing as Firefox fixes just about all problems you may be coming across. Just identifying as Firefox usually isn't enough, though, and sometimes even the masking option isn't sufficient because the site goes to such great lengths to detect browsers.
And therefore one should not point out all the innovations that are actual Opera innovations? Wow, amazing logic.
Opera had tabs before Firefox even existed.
No, they were not.
No, not very different at all. But most of the things you take for granted in modern browsers were in fact invented by Opera.
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Am I the only person in the world that's still using Omniweb? It has a great tab management system which is similar to opera, it has the workspaces feature which is great and an awesome bookmarking system. If only the Omni group would dedicate a bit more time into keeping it up to date though...
We're getting into subjective terrority, but nonetheless:
Ctrl+click seems to have become an emerging standard for interacting with links, and a lot of people have gotten used to it. The thing is, Ctrl+click isn't being used for anything else in Opera, so I hope they make it do the same thing as Shift+click in the next version.
Ctrl+PageUp/Down: Well, it's not obscure if you're using Ubuntu: Terminal and Nautilus both use it, and don't use Ctrl+Tab. Gedit uses Ctrl+Alt+PageDown. Again, Ctrl+PageUp isn't being used for anything else, so I hope it's a default in the next version. Also, Ctrl+Tab (especially Ctrl+Shift+Tab) is either less ergonomic than Ctrl+PgDn/Up or uses two hands. Ctrl+PgDn/Up is easily ergonomic using only the right hand with the thumb on Ctrl and middle finger on PgUp/Dn.
Right-click: I think you may have misunderstood me: I'm saying you can access context menu items with a single click and release, instead of Opera's right-click, release, left-click, release.
Search: Yeah, I wish Chrome would support '/' in addition to Ctrl+F. Muscle memory from less, vim, and lynx. Plus point for Opera. Re: the color. I just switched from Ubuntu Radiance to the default Ambiance, and instead of grey on grey, it's light brown on grey. YMMV.
In general: Yes, I realize different browsers have different combinations of features, and I appreciate many of Opera's. But the day-to-day, minute-to-minute basics of a browser are opening links, switching tabs, and (less used) searching. So I use Opera only for Google maps and some other stuff.
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>I agree that Chrome is better, but is this not the standard Windows behaviour for a contextual menu
Yeah, might be. I just happen to much prefer the Gnome (and possible KDE) way of allowing you to make the selection with just a release of the right mouse button over Windows (stopped using it a year ago). It's one of those things where you don't notice it if you don't have it, but once you do, you don't want to not have it.
I only happened to notice just recently the craziness of the entire situation if I had to explain it to a new user:
Me: OK, right click the browser
Them: Now what?
Me: Release the button.
Them: OK
Me: Now click on such-and-such item.
Them: Nothing's happening.
Me: Now you have to use the other button (left-button).
Them: ?? Who thought that up?
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I really hate that FF and Opera are promoted as so much more secure than IE, yet they don't take advantage of the new security models used in Chrome and IE8/9. It's like running your desktop machine on the internet without a firewall, because the OS vendor says that your listening services are secure. The low rights security model provides another layer of security which the exploit writers must deal with...and can therefore stop a larger range of attacks.
Today while browsing with the IE9 beta I suddenly saw the Java2 Runtime Environment snd Adobe Reader load, which I instantly knew that a drive by exploit was attempting to leverage them. Both software products were the most current versions and were exploited successfully. The exploit fsiled to install it's payload however, because it was stuck in a low privilege container which it could not write outside of.
I think the main problem is the fact that a low rights model requires significant changes to the browser's design and code. FireFox and Opera slso run on many different platforms and it may be much more difficult to keep their codebase in sync if some use the new model and others don't.
It also seems like a lot of the browser development lately is being focused around statistics and bragging rights for being the fastest or most compatible at something (like Javascript or HTML5). Since there's no statistic that can be generated for "number of exploits prevented", they can all just say they are the most secure browser and no one can prove it either way.
The clash of honour calls, to stand when others fall.
Sadly, yes.
Though the level of validity of your post has forced me to reconsider my view points, and now my life is fulfilled, everything is clear and beautiful like the morning sun rising on the most splendiferous scenes of natural beauty. Clearly Opera is GOD's own browser, and was used to upload Jesus to this fine earth. I bow my head in shame, sir.
Further, the presentation smoothed the intake of your informative emissions like butter on a shit sandwich.
I truly have many things to learn.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Right-click: I think you may have misunderstood me: I'm saying you can access context menu items with a single click and release, instead of Opera's right-click, release, left-click, release.
In Opera, when you right click, you can move the mouse to perform gestures, or click the other button to move in history. Having the context menu pop-up during that would be somewhat annoying so that's probably why there's a difference there.
No, sorry. This is merely speculation on your part. The people with actual hard data on this have shown that the vast majority of cases are caused by browser sniffing or pages using things like vendor prefixes for CSS.
Opera had tabs in early 2000, with version 4. Please pay attention.
Not at all. Again, Opera had tabs before Firefox even existed.
Huh? Equivalents to what? When did anyone claim that Opera had extensions before Firefox? Wow, you are desperate.
BTW, Opera's User JS was available before Greasemonkey. They used it for the infamous "Bork" version.
I never said that "Opera innovated tabs." Nice try, though.
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Those issues are pretty nitpicky, some of them can even be configured to act how you want like ctrl+click for new tab (by default its ctrl+shift+click) Chrome and firefox have annoyances as well. Chrome =============== - Selecting text also selects padding and margins - Closing the last tab closes chrome instead of returning to my speed dial thingy - I can't click and drag to select text in the middle of links - Completely hides protocol in address bar - Highlights, but doesn't gray out rest of page on find as you type (Looky here a difference of opinion) - Can't ctrL+z to undo a closed tab (Forces me to use ctrl+shift+t, at least opera lets me configure it) Firefox =============== - Viewing the source of a website after a post requires you to repost (WTF) - I can't go back or forward without reposting both ways - I can't click and drag to select text in the middle of links - Its file input control - Highlights, but doesn't gray out rest of page on find as you type (Looky here a difference of opinion)
Good: "Why use closed software?"
Because it offers something useful and unique
(or at least distinctive).
Among other characteristics, I love how I can
radically change the UI to suit my working style,
without extensions -- e.g., listing tabs in a
vertical stack which doesn't truncate the titles,
and easily toggling showing & hiding them.
And yet, every time there's a mjor release
(going back at least six years),
I try it and eventually abandon it,
because it's still what I call "workspace-oblivious".
For the manner in which I work, it's a
real problem that Opera doesn't conform to
the drag-and-drop conventions seen in the
behavior of other apps.
-- FROM a page in Opera, I can drag a link (or an
address-bar item) only to the desktop, not to a
folder icon, an open folder window, a foreign browser,
or an app such as a media player.
-- TO Opera, I can drag icons only from the desktop
or from an open folder, not from a foreign browser.
I don't have those limitations with Firefox,
and it makes a genuine and substantial difference in
my productivity.