That's right, my sister had an issue where the pop-up would go in the background, and she didn't see it and thought Opera didn't work. I think you have to disable raising and lowering of windows in the javascript options. And make sure you have block unwanted popups, not block all.
Actually, I'd love to see such a feature added to Opera.
I'm really not sure why Roboform can't work with Opera - on the Opera forums, it seems to be a case of Roboform claiming Opera doesn't let them do X which is needed to make it work, and Opera claiming the same thing to Roboform.
Drop it in the wishlists of both companies, maybe with enough outcry it will get fixed.
This is the thing, and why it's good there's choice in the market. One main reason I won't use FireFox is because it has extensions. This promotes two big issues for me -
1) Makes the devs lazy, someone else will write an extension for that "must have" feature. Well, then I as a user have to find it, install it, maintain it, and hope the extension dev doesn't get bored with keeping it working with the new versions, or I lose that feature.
2) Allows toolbars like in IE - now my install of Acrobat can put Yahoo in my Alternative browser too! The joy!
3) Mozilla and FireFox devs assume no responsibility for extensions, they can conflict and break my browser - more headaches!
Ooops, that was 3.
Anyway, it depends on what you want, and FF works for you. For me, I can use proxomitron and have adblocking for all browsers on my system. I don't lose features regularily with upgrades, nor do I have to manage my features. Less work, more working.
So from my point of view, I'm amazed so many people put up with FF. Though it is better than IE, so it makes some sense.
95% of your setup in Opera 7.54 will automatically carry over to 8 if you install over the old one. I think you have to tick up your search.ini version # - or use Opsed..
And you have to decide what to do with the new stuff like the "start" bar.
True, roboform integration is a loss. I just don't spend much time filling out forms.
If you have to have roboform, you are limited - if you just need the functionality, there are some things available for similar stuff.
There is a userjs autocomplete, there are the notes and personal info fields you can use to give dropdowns on text areas. There is the wand for login management.
I personally use a combination of the notes/personal info and Keywallet which is cross browser.
One thing I don't get is why roboform can't use something like Key Wallet does to drop things into Opera, and can't read out the fields via a proxy or something... Or even screen grabs maybe?
I think the big issue so far is that Opera doesn't want to let roboform into their code, and Roboform doesn't want to share API needs to Opera (like ASpell being open source did, and Opera integrated). This is one issue where companies are butting heads (roboform is commercial right - not OSS?).
The default interface is a topic of lots of argument - if you look at the screenshot history, many (myself included) liked the Opera 5.x era default interface (minus the ad of course).
OTOH, Opera's interface isn't difficult to customize either, I have 8.02 looking very similar to that O5 default interface.
On the my.opera.com servers (assuming they aren't melting) there are one click (or two click if you want to separate out look and function) downloads to mimic IE or FF or Safari.
You can also create your own rather simply - though menu editing is more difficult - ini edits are necessary.
I understand this, it's why I don't use Firefox. Just not worth the hassle to switch, as it has nothing to tempt me from Opera. I think in a lot of ways, the two browsers are evenly matched, and hence long time users of either will be very unlikely to even want to waste their time trying out the other, as all they are sure of is they will waste time.
Sort of, but then I realised that A) my payment helps Opera develop new updates and a better browser (do any FF users donate? Are they pissed off they did?)
and
B) *I* get premium support, my issues end up *front and center* to the devs, rather than buried in the forum threads and such for the non payers. Guess which likely gets fixed first?
Seriously! I have Lotus SmartSuite 9.8 from god knows when, and for typing things up, it's basically the same as the Lotus that came with my IBM Aptive in 1995. I've used Office 2k3, and the latest final of OO.org, and for me typing things, they are all the same, though I really kind of hate the interface of MS Word and OO.org.
I'm pretty ingrained in WordPro - plus it works with palletts, so it's very similar to using Adobe CS2 products, though totally word processing geared.
OO.org is great for current compatibility and conversion, it does better converting rtf to html, and reading DOC files than the 3 year old WordPro, but the interface is still somewhat weird for me.
The biggest nags for me in Word is the way by default, it hides margins, headers/footers, and makes columns a pain to use. Though Tables are fine to replace their columns. Why does it want to hide where the header area is? Or the margins?
Also, finding things can be fun. The love it or hate it pallette interface at least puts everything about an object in one place - all text options are in the text pallette, there's a page pallette for margins, watermarks etc...
What I'd really like is if we're going to make things customizable, let the interface be fully skinnable - so I (or someone more talented than I) can make OO.org 2 look and work like Lotus Word Pro does... Or like MS Office, or AbiWord or whatever your desire is! Like how Opera and FireFox let you easily mimic IE6 if you want.
Well, I don't know that it's that much of a gap really. See, I would say I'm a citizen of the United States if being interrogated somewhere else in the world, but if I was talking to friends (like many of the Picard nationality scened) I'd likely talk about my Finger Lakes New York heritage...
How will this work for home produced video? My point is, more and more people are playing with home video now, and pirates will be able to encode a pirated tv show or whatever into the same formatting etc that you will use with the various video you took with your camera.
The point I was making is I don't see them making a ban on all media players. And I don't see how a media player will know that say mpeg file 1.mpg is actually a pirated movie. Or that nothing else matters.mp3 is the pirated Metallica song vs a voice recorded file, or even your cover of the song...
I guess the point is - will it matter? Who is going out there an en-masse getting wma files? I know I only ever download MP3s because they work in anything. I'm guessing most of the iPodders use either iTMS, or they are getting MP3s...
I have never seen a pirate distribute WMAs. So, for those who are into pirating stuff, they will just get the MP3 version I would guess.
Unless Vista plans on disabling bittorrent, HTTP downloads, FTP, and scores of other P2P methods + not allowing you to install say WinAmp to play MP3s while making WMP not play MP3s...
I'd guess there would be some notice from even the mass media if you can't play MP3s on Vista...
I'd also expect there to be some outcry if Opera and FF (two browsers that can support bittorrent in the browser) won't run also.
I mean, to prevent media piracy, MS would have to prevent you from installing software...
And if in either case you had to buy all new software that is MS approved, I'm guessing that could drive business use away. Or, they will come up with a coporate version, that will be out like XP was for all the pirates...
I get how via Trusted Computing they could prevent you from pirating software, what I don't see is how that would work for media - some pirates will just run 2K or XP or Linux and release MP3 or Divx or XviD files that don't have any software identifiable copyright info, so Vista won't know that they are a DVDRip or whatever...
There are made for computer storage/backup solutions already available. They just aren't as affordable as DVD-Rs.
I'd say, off the top of my head: 1) Cheap consumer RAID arrays in a home fileserver (this should cost about what the average person pays for a low - mid range PC) ~$600-$800 depending on whether they want to build it and use Linux or buy it and use windows. In any case, you would have to add the extra drives.
2) Various tape drives, I believe these are up to near HD capacity - 40-80 GB each. About the same cost as option 1) to buy in with a tape.
3) Various online file backup services. These range from free for limited space (heck, you can use google + software for 2GB) to a moderate cost of $100 a year to things like FolderShare for unlimited space.
Well, if I'm not crazy - I recall drive mfg saying 1MB=1,000,000 bytes. Figured like that (assuming i can get my math right) gives me 55.9 GB after conversion to real GB.
Well, not per day, but I've had that sort of drift on previous machines per *week*. I thought it was horrible really. I mean, we can make a $3 walmart clock that can keep better time.
Anyway's, I haven't noticed this on my A64 board, I wonder if it's because of a change in the way those things work for the "speed-steping" or whatever AMD calls it.
I'm not able to quote this - maybe it's my hazy memory - but I'm rather sure ASUS always overclocked their gaming/performance boards by 5Mhz. At least since I first looked back in 2003.
And, IIRC, they were upfront about it and would extend warrenty coverage to any part on the motherboard that was damaged by their overclock...
If they ever lied, it was at most not stressing that fact in their marketing. But I think their phone support/sales told me that when I was researching it.
Of course, if your research is purely based on what companies print on the box...
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That's right, my sister had an issue where the pop-up would go in the background, and she didn't see it and thought Opera didn't work. I think you have to disable raising and lowering of windows in the javascript options. And make sure you have block unwanted popups, not block all.
That's odd, I use Opera for HSBC USA all the time - are the different countries that different for the bank code?
Actually, I'd love to see such a feature added to Opera.
I'm really not sure why Roboform can't work with Opera - on the Opera forums, it seems to be a case of Roboform claiming Opera doesn't let them do X which is needed to make it work, and Opera claiming the same thing to Roboform.
Drop it in the wishlists of both companies, maybe with enough outcry it will get fixed.
This is the thing, and why it's good there's choice in the market. One main reason I won't use FireFox is because it has extensions. This promotes two big issues for me -
1) Makes the devs lazy, someone else will write an extension for that "must have" feature. Well, then I as a user have to find it, install it, maintain it, and hope the extension dev doesn't get bored with keeping it working with the new versions, or I lose that feature.
2) Allows toolbars like in IE - now my install of Acrobat can put Yahoo in my Alternative browser too! The joy!
3) Mozilla and FireFox devs assume no responsibility for extensions, they can conflict and break my browser - more headaches!
Ooops, that was 3.
Anyway, it depends on what you want, and FF works for you. For me, I can use proxomitron and have adblocking for all browsers on my system. I don't lose features regularily with upgrades, nor do I have to manage my features. Less work, more working.
So from my point of view, I'm amazed so many people put up with FF. Though it is better than IE, so it makes some sense.
For those of you who dislike Opera's interface, you are aware that it is far from set in stone, right?
When the servers come back, go to my.opera.com/customize and look at the custom toolbar and skin setups.
95% of your setup in Opera 7.54 will automatically carry over to 8 if you install over the old one. I think you have to tick up your search.ini version # - or use Opsed..
And you have to decide what to do with the new stuff like the "start" bar.
True, roboform integration is a loss. I just don't spend much time filling out forms.
If you have to have roboform, you are limited - if you just need the functionality, there are some things available for similar stuff.
There is a userjs autocomplete, there are the notes and personal info fields you can use to give dropdowns on text areas. There is the wand for login management.
I personally use a combination of the notes/personal info and Keywallet which is cross browser.
One thing I don't get is why roboform can't use something like Key Wallet does to drop things into Opera, and can't read out the fields via a proxy or something... Or even screen grabs maybe?
I think the big issue so far is that Opera doesn't want to let roboform into their code, and Roboform doesn't want to share API needs to Opera (like ASpell being open source did, and Opera integrated). This is one issue where companies are butting heads (roboform is commercial right - not OSS?).
The default interface is a topic of lots of argument - if you look at the screenshot history, many (myself included) liked the Opera 5.x era default interface (minus the ad of course).
OTOH, Opera's interface isn't difficult to customize either, I have 8.02 looking very similar to that O5 default interface.
On the my.opera.com servers (assuming they aren't melting) there are one click (or two click if you want to separate out look and function) downloads to mimic IE or FF or Safari.
You can also create your own rather simply - though menu editing is more difficult - ini edits are necessary.
This leads me to an interesting cliche /. analogy.
To me, FF is a lot like the Honda Civic street cars (ricers??) that are pimped up for racing like in NFSU2.
Opera is like a Porche 911 Turbo stock off the lot - not pimped out with lights or whatever, but will smoke the Civic every time.
I understand this, it's why I don't use Firefox. Just not worth the hassle to switch, as it has nothing to tempt me from Opera. I think in a lot of ways, the two browsers are evenly matched, and hence long time users of either will be very unlikely to even want to waste their time trying out the other, as all they are sure of is they will waste time.
Sort of, but then I realised that A) my payment helps Opera develop new updates and a better browser (do any FF users donate? Are they pissed off they did?)
and
B) *I* get premium support, my issues end up *front and center* to the devs, rather than buried in the forum threads and such for the non payers. Guess which likely gets fixed first?
With all these style responses, from people who seem like they are in hiring positions:
Does anyone in the US actually hire new graduates for entry level positions anymore? Do you even have entry level positions?
Seriously! I have Lotus SmartSuite 9.8 from god knows when, and for typing things up, it's basically the same as the Lotus that came with my IBM Aptive in 1995. I've used Office 2k3, and the latest final of OO.org, and for me typing things, they are all the same, though I really kind of hate the interface of MS Word and OO.org.
I'm pretty ingrained in WordPro - plus it works with palletts, so it's very similar to using Adobe CS2 products, though totally word processing geared.
OO.org is great for current compatibility and conversion, it does better converting rtf to html, and reading DOC files than the 3 year old WordPro, but the interface is still somewhat weird for me.
The biggest nags for me in Word is the way by default, it hides margins, headers/footers, and makes columns a pain to use. Though Tables are fine to replace their columns. Why does it want to hide where the header area is? Or the margins?
Also, finding things can be fun. The love it or hate it pallette interface at least puts everything about an object in one place - all text options are in the text pallette, there's a page pallette for margins, watermarks etc...
What I'd really like is if we're going to make things customizable, let the interface be fully skinnable - so I (or someone more talented than I) can make OO.org 2 look and work like Lotus Word Pro does... Or like MS Office, or AbiWord or whatever your desire is! Like how Opera and FireFox let you easily mimic IE6 if you want.
Well, I don't know that it's that much of a gap really. See, I would say I'm a citizen of the United States if being interrogated somewhere else in the world, but if I was talking to friends (like many of the Picard nationality scened) I'd likely talk about my Finger Lakes New York heritage...
How will this work for home produced video? My point is, more and more people are playing with home video now, and pirates will be able to encode a pirated tv show or whatever into the same formatting etc that you will use with the various video you took with your camera.
The point I was making is I don't see them making a ban on all media players. And I don't see how a media player will know that say mpeg file 1.mpg is actually a pirated movie. Or that nothing else matters.mp3 is the pirated Metallica song vs a voice recorded file, or even your cover of the song...
I guess the point is - will it matter? Who is going out there an en-masse getting wma files? I know I only ever download MP3s because they work in anything. I'm guessing most of the iPodders use either iTMS, or they are getting MP3s...
I have never seen a pirate distribute WMAs. So, for those who are into pirating stuff, they will just get the MP3 version I would guess.
Unless Vista plans on disabling bittorrent, HTTP downloads, FTP, and scores of other P2P methods + not allowing you to install say WinAmp to play MP3s while making WMP not play MP3s...
I'd guess there would be some notice from even the mass media if you can't play MP3s on Vista...
I'd also expect there to be some outcry if Opera and FF (two browsers that can support bittorrent in the browser) won't run also.
I mean, to prevent media piracy, MS would have to prevent you from installing software...
And if in either case you had to buy all new software that is MS approved, I'm guessing that could drive business use away. Or, they will come up with a coporate version, that will be out like XP was for all the pirates...
I get how via Trusted Computing they could prevent you from pirating software, what I don't see is how that would work for media - some pirates will just run 2K or XP or Linux and release MP3 or Divx or XviD files that don't have any software identifiable copyright info, so Vista won't know that they are a DVDRip or whatever...
This might be a slightly overly geeky response, but what about Tokin Ring??
There are made for computer storage/backup solutions already available. They just aren't as affordable as DVD-Rs.
I'd say, off the top of my head:
1) Cheap consumer RAID arrays in a home fileserver (this should cost about what the average person pays for a low - mid range PC) ~$600-$800 depending on whether they want to build it and use Linux or buy it and use windows. In any case, you would have to add the extra drives.
2) Various tape drives, I believe these are up to near HD capacity - 40-80 GB each. About the same cost as option 1) to buy in with a tape.
3) Various online file backup services. These range from free for limited space (heck, you can use google + software for 2GB) to a moderate cost of $100 a year to things like FolderShare for unlimited space.
You sure about that? AFAIK, most high end copiers now are also printers...
Plus, don't Laser printers and photocopiers work in a similar/same way?
I may be confused, but can't you just not run or use WMP?
Well, if I'm not crazy - I recall drive mfg saying 1MB=1,000,000 bytes. Figured like that (assuming i can get my math right) gives me 55.9 GB after conversion to real GB.
Then, don't forget - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q140365/ the cluster overhead and some format overhead for the duplicate MFT etc...
Well, not per day, but I've had that sort of drift on previous machines per *week*. I thought it was horrible really. I mean, we can make a $3 walmart clock that can keep better time.
Anyway's, I haven't noticed this on my A64 board, I wonder if it's because of a change in the way those things work for the "speed-steping" or whatever AMD calls it.
Do you figure in the filesystem overhead?
I'm not able to quote this - maybe it's my hazy memory - but I'm rather sure ASUS always overclocked their gaming/performance boards by 5Mhz. At least since I first looked back in 2003.
And, IIRC, they were upfront about it and would extend warrenty coverage to any part on the motherboard that was damaged by their overclock...
If they ever lied, it was at most not stressing that fact in their marketing. But I think their phone support/sales told me that when I was researching it.
Of course, if your research is purely based on what companies print on the box...