Browser Watch at Codehouse.com claims:
Browser Watch keeps you informed about new versions of all major browsers. This page is regularly updated.
If you were a silly person, you might think that this suggested some sort of attempt at impartiality. But of course you’d soon be disappointed. It is, in fact, nothing more than yet another Firefox Fanboy Site (FFS™).
In case you can’t get to Opera’s website (since it’s being inundated by people trying to get Opera8) you can also try Tucows
Be sure to understand that while the free version of Opera is ad-supported, it is NOT ADWARE in that it doesn’t install spyware, etc on your computer.
The first day of 30 days to becoming an Opera8 Lover was released to coincide with the official release of Opera8 for Windows and Un*x variants (Mac is coming soon hopefully!)
Opera's servers are obviously being hit pretty heavy, but eventually you can download it from http://opera.com/download.
SpyKiller writes:
Spyware is installed "piggy backed" along with popular programs such as KaZaA, GrokSter, iMesh, Opera and others.
Short response: Skykiller lies. I know you'll find it hard to believe that anyone would write something untrue in their marketing copy, but it's true.
Longer response follows:
So I was downloading Firefox today (I know, shock and horror.... I keep it around, I just don't use it all that often) when I was yet again I was amused by their marketing not-untrue-but-not-the-whole-truth:
Hassle-Free Downloading: Files you download are automatically saved to your Desktop so they're easy to find. Fewer prompts mean files download quicker.
I can hear you already saying "Wow! That's cool, I mean, when it comes to downloading, faster is better, so Firefox must be better!"
Sure. But they have set up a false dichotomy, suggesting that you can have only one of these options: 1) fast download or 2) choose where you want the file to be saved.
Opera, on the other hand, starts to download every bit as soon as Firefox. You can set download folders for certain file types (granted, that requires a bit of a propeller hat to configure), or you can do "Quick Download" and have it download to your default directory. So already you have more choices.
But what if you're like me, and you don't want to bother setting up download folders, and you don't want everything to go to your Desktop?
What if you want to click on a download link and then create a new folder for the download, AND you also want to have the fastest download possible?
Well, then you should use Opera. Opera will start downloading the file immediately. You can save it to your default folder, or make a new folder, and Opera will be downloading all along.
Firefox says they have given you a faster solution, but it limits your freedom. You end up working for the computer under its terms (i.e. "If you want faster downloads, you'll do as I say"). Opera says, "Take your time, work how you want, I'm here doing what you asked in the background."
I hereby declare "Hassle Free Downloading" to be "Freedom Restricted Downloading"... it's every bit as true as what Firefox is trying to push off as truth.
Opera lets you talk to your TV
Personally I've been talking to me TV for years, even yelling at it during certain seasons of the year.
But to have it actually respond?
However, I have to confess, the Orwellian part of me worries where this might lead. What would happen if the technology advanced to the point of having AI added in to allow it to respond?
What happens when it's able to monitor my blood pressure and realize when the stress of the big game is getting too much? Will it switch to another channel? Will it chastise me for watching too much CSI, for laughing too hard at the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, for watching Alias without Tracey?
Of course all of those fears are unfounded, because the technology came from Opera, not Microsoft :-)
Browser Speed Test shows Opera as faster than IE and Firefox, which routinely claims to be faster than every other browser.
Not that I expect most Firefox advocates to respond with anything other than "Firefox is free" and "Firefox has a lot of extensions".
Opera Beta for Mac: http://snapshot.opera.com/mac/m80p1.html
Opera Beta for Linux: Google Group announcement of Opera Beta for Linux/FreeBSD
Buy Opera for $24USD/€19.53+VAT/£13.78.
I'm not sure how long this will last. Buy a license now and get a free upgrade to the next version of Opera (currently called "Opera Beta" or "Opera 8" depending on who you ask. You will be buying a license for Opera7.)
(Disclaimer: I am not getting any proceeds of the sale of Opera through that link, I just happened to come across it.)
This may come as a shock to many (and it did to me), a new version of Opera for Windows has been released.
Why you should dump IE, preferably before it lets spyware into your computer. That is all.
Press F5 if Opera failed to properly subscribe to an RSS feed the first time.
Until they fix the bug that prevents a lot of sites from being recognized as RSS feeds (and subscribing you to them), pressing F5 to reload the page seems to kick Opera into recognizing it.
Ode to Opera. A poem from an Opera Lover. Go. Read.
Security fix and a few good features:
1) wide favicons could cover URL in the address line.
2) Various stability improvements
3) Redirecting links correctly marked as visited
4) Initial support for quoting selected text in messages
5) Solved problem with duplicate addresses when using "Reply all"
In a recent article, Wired addresses the idea of "perpetual beta" cycles. It applies to all software, but browsers especially. A closer look follows.
Link: Interview with Sue [Sims], who setup the private beta-testing group (which became groups for Opera). That is all.
In Some Badly Designed Features Put Opera 7.5 Out of Tune, Rob Pegoraro talks about the Opera browser. Because we are a generous lot, we will assume that the Washington Post has someone on staff who writes headlines, rather than blame Rob for the "Oh look how clever I am, I used 'out of tune' in a headline about 'Opera', get it?" headline. I'd like to talk a bit about his comments, what he included, what he glossed over, and what he completely missed.
Continue reading "Washington Post misses Opera 7.5's Greatest Hits" »
Opera 7.5 released for Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows. Read the Opera 7.5 Press Release.
This is a great release and a major step forward. I encourage everyone to check it out. The ad-bar for the free version is much smaller.
Try it, you'll like it.
No longer treat missing DOCTYPE or Charset as a fatal error.
That quote (from the What's New page for the W3C validator, ends a long, long, long standing problem that many folks had with the validator: it only worked if you knew what you were doing.
Follow the link for the full story. Visit Opera to download a free (ad supported) version of Opera 7.5. Note that Opera 7.5 has a much more lean ad bar, and uses Google ads, which have been so successful that registered (paid) users have left them enabled!
News.com is reporting that Symbian will hang on to smart phone OS lead through the decade, despite continued threat from Microsoft.
Apparently smart phone developers are smart enough to want to keep Microsoft at bay, before they take over yet another platform and destroy any competition there.
And who makes the main browser for Symbian? That would be Opera for Smartphones. Don’t just take my word for it, read about the Symbian/Opera connection and the rave reviews Opera has gotten there.
(Of course you can also use Opera on Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2, BeOS, and QNX.
Why Opera? I’m glad you asked. That’s actually the first entry in my series 30 Days to becoming an Opera Lover.
First, View screenshot.
Then: Go get it.
Install it in a new directory (do not install it over your old Opera installation. It is beta, and it does have some significant changes, especially to mail)
Launch it. Love it.
That is all.
Opera 7.5 TP 2 has been released.
I like it. I like it a lot. Not fully finished yet, but a good improvement.
I've been using it for my mail etc and it seems fairly stable.
That said, I still recommend that you install it to a new directory. There are some cool things to see/experiment with that you will see more easily if you do a clean install.
Remember, it's still a Technology Preview (which is somewhere between Alpha and Beta).
Ok I may be the last one to know this, but Opera has a press release RSS feed.
(Whether or not RSS can be considered Real Simple is a debatable question for another day.)
Heh.... well, no one was ever fired for hiring IBM.
Quoting the Official press release about John Patrick:
Mr. Patrick was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT and is now the Chairman of the Global Internet Project, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and electronics Engineers, a member of the Internet Society, the Association for Computer Machinery, and the Working Group on Authentication at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
My Opera has been updated (read the My Opera Press Release).
Some cool additions, including:
An all-new section named
setupallows Opera toolbars, configurations for mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts and menus to be downloaded or uploaded for exchanging with other users around the world. These features are not only for the technologically advanced, installing setups is automatic upon downloading.
You can also start your own Opera Journal. Hrm...
David asked about the Opera UI icons. I assume you mean the icons on the various toolbars.
The easiest way to find out what they are is to right click on the toolbar and select either Images and text below
or Images and Text on Right
as shown in this image.
If you use Windows XP, you may also find the the icons on the Main Bar only show the text label when you hover them. This feature can be disabled by right clicking on the Main Bar, then choosing the Skin
sub-menu, and then the UN-check the option for Special Effects
.
Another Internet Explorer exploit has been discovered.
Here's the kicker: I warned you about this already (sorta). On Day 16 of the 30 days to becoming an Opera7 Lover series, I talked about this functionality.
The trick is simple, you create a website that looks like this: www.microsoft.com@example.com which makes the casual observer think that it is actually Microsoft. If you are very clever you can hide the URL through a variety of methods.
That's the bad news. The good news is that none of these methods fool Opera. And if you do happen to click on such a link, Opera will warn you with a panel like this:
![[screenshot of Opera panel prompting to warn of an URL with a password]](/opera/lover/7/16/opera-hidden-url.png)
This exploit takes advantage of two things: 1) Internet Explorer gives you no such warning (neither does Mozilla/Phoenix) and 2) a bug in Internet Explorer which encodes a hex character in the URL which prevents the rest of the URL from being shown in the addressbar.
As I have said before, if you use Internet Explorer, you are playing Russian roulette with your computer security. While Mozilla/Phoenix will show you the entire URL, it will give you no warning about the construction of the URL which may be deceptive.
30 Days to becoming an Opera7 Lover finished with Day 31.
Russian translation is now available for the following days: Introduction (Ru), Day 1 (Ru), Day 2 (Ru), Day 3 (Ru), Day 4 (Ru), Day 5 (Ru), Day 6 (Ru), Day 7 (Ru), Day 8 (Ru), Day 9 (Ru), Day 10 (Ru), Day 11 (Ru).
German translation is now available for the following days: Introduction (De), Day 1 (De), Day 2 (De), Day 3 (De), Day 4 (De), Day 5 (De), Day 6 (De), Day 7 (De), Day 8 (De), Day 9 (De), Day 10 (De), Day 11 (De).
Translation is still underway. My thanks to those who have given of their time to make this series available to a wider audience.
By the way, did you know that Internet Explorer does not support the ABBR tag? So if you are using Internet Explorer (WHY?!?!) then you will not see anything when you hover the De and Ru links above. Oh well, yet another reason to switch to a decent browser.
One of the features missing from Opera7 is the ability to change the names given to mailing lists. This really ought to be possible via the Properties dialog, but it isn't at least yet.
However, if you want, you can edit the index.ini file inside the mail directory (check opera:about to see where your Mail directory is located.
WARNING: Make sure Oprea is NOT running when you edit the file, and be sure to edit it with a text editor such as Notepad, not a word processing app such as Microsoft Word.
You will see an entry such as
[Index 37]
Name=Using Opera
Well, you might prefer to have the word "Opera" come first. Just edit the entry like so:
[Index 37]
Name=Opera - Users
Save the file, start Opera, and voila!
Opera 7.23 has been released to address two theoretical security risks (see changelog for Opera 7.23 (changelog is the same for all 3 versions).
Day 15, Day 16, and Day 17 are up.
The rest of the days are written, and are on the server. They will be automatically released one per day at midnight (UTC). Day 18 will be released on November 18th, and so forth.
I wanted to be sure to finish the whole thing before I released any more days so that people would not have to wait through another long hiatus. Thanks for all those who have written words of encouragement.
I hope it was worth the wait.
Download Opera 7.22, a security problem was found. It is unlikely to be exploited, but possible. Also, if you have not yet upgraded to Sun Java 1.4.2_01, then you should download Opera 7.22 with Java (two birds, one stone). There was a Java security problem which was unrelated to Opera. You need to update Java regardless of whether you use Opera or Mozilla/Firebird or IE.
Of course, if you use IE you need to update a lot more security patches.... just today there was another big one. Read about the latest security holes in Internet Explorer.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible..
Opera Software today announced the Opera Platform for operators and handset manufacturers. By enabling full integration between handheld devices' local applications, the available Opera browser environment and operators' online content, users can now get a continously more fun, dynamic mobile phone experience right on the mobile phone's main screen. The Opera Platform engages users more than ever before, while also stimulating the use of the newly rolled-out online data services for higher ARPU (average revenue per user).
Read the rest of the Opera Platform press release. Also, the AtNewYork covers Opera Platform
Thanks to Ilya Shpan'kov and Martin Schrode, there are now translations of the 30 Days to Becoming an Opera Lover series.
There are 5 days available in Russian and 11 days available in German. They are both working on additional days as well.
To get to the Russian version, simply add /ru/ to the end of any URL, or /de/ for German. For example http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/ becomes http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/de/.
There are also links to the translations available from the English pages.
If you would like to start reading them, you should start at the German version of the Introduction or the Russion version of the Introduction.
Wireless Developer Network reports that Opera Announces Strategic Licensing Agreement with Adobe.
Sounds very cool.
Week Two of 30 Days to becoming an Opera7 Lover begins today. This week we'll be discussing the various Panels (aka Sidebars) available with Opera. We'll start with the basics, Day 6: Bookmarks Panel
The long-awaited update to the hugely popular series has begun
Just released. download Opera 7.2 for Windows. You know you want to.
There is also a Changelog for Opera 7.2 and a press release for Opera 7.2
Read the announcement of 7.2 beta9 for Windows.
Comments and overall feedback has been extremely positive thus far.
Opera 7.2 is really impressing me. It's looking like the best release of the best browser. Of course issues still remain, but still my clear #1 choice.
They all add support for bidirectional languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Get yours today at http://www.opera.com/download.
Opera 7.20 for Windows Beta is out, and looks very good.
You can also get it for 25% off ($29.95) if you act now. Tell your friends.
Buy Opera or Download the 7th beta of Opera 7.2. (7th beta just means that it has been tested in 6 previous releases.)
Is Mozilla’s browser better than Opera? Well, let’s compare what they consider to be Mozilla Firebird’s biggest features:
Although not an official standard, there are several link options that connect to AIM. This functionality can be added to Opera by adding a preference setting.
Adding this is very easy. Goto File > Preferences and then “Programs and Paths” and click on the “Add” button.
Fill out the panel like this [if you have installed AIM somewhere other than the default, change the path accordingly].
![[screen shot of preference panel]](/images/beyond30/add-aim-01.png "This is what the panel should look like after it is added")
Click the “OK” button and the Preference panel should look like this:
![[screen shot of preference panel]](/images/beyond30/add-aim-02.png "This is what the panel should look like after it is added")
Click “OK” again and the AIM links should work.
Note: For official information on this feature, read http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=535.
(Updated 2004-02-02)
Operamail Premium gives you access to an outgoing SMTP server. However, many ISPs are starting to block access to port 25. Well the good news is that you can use port 587 instead.
If you use Opera's mailer (M2) then the configuration panel should look like this:
![[screenshot of Opera mail configuration panel]](/opera/beyond30/images/operamail-alternate-port.png)
CNET reports 'The Recruit' enlists Opera browser.
Update (9/20/2003): CNet has changed the target of the link, and I cannot find the article on their site anymore.
Opera is working with IBM on a multimodal browser (Voice and Visual).
The voice part includes both voice recognition and text-to-speech. IBM has further information on their site
The language is XHTML+Voice which you can read more about in IBM's XHTML+Voice Profile 1.1
Opera released Opera 7.10 for download for both Windows and Linux.
(Update: some of the download sites seem to be asking for passwords. Try the Australia Planet Mirror via HTTP... that one seems to be working, for non Java at least.)
Q: Will there be a version of the Opera Lover series for Opera 7?
A: Yes, eventually. Right now there is a whole lot going on behind the scenes. I suspect that 7.1 will have some new noteworthy features to it, so I've been holding off. That and an overall decrease in the amount of time I'm spending on the computer once I get home from work.
I'm sure everyone else knows this by now, but OpTool now supports Opera 7.
This is very cool when you run across a site that doesn't work in Opera7 for some reason. Just press the hotkey (default: control+shift+a but you can change that) and have it open in Mozilla (or Phoenix, which is my 2nd favorite browser.)
OpTool will then automagically open the current page in the other browser. You can even use That Other Browser if you want, or configure it to use whatever program you want.
And it's free. Big, big thanks to Martin Larsen for this most cool tool.
Nick Bradbury (author of TopStyle) writes that he
switched to Opera 7 and has been impressed with it.
Nick wrote: Opera 7 is very fast and renders well, and the mouse gestures are great once you get the hang of them. As a web author, I also like the "user mode" which enables you to do things like view structural elements on a page or toggle an "accessibility layout" mode. Plus, I find the HotList panels easier to use than Mozilla's SideBar.
Go to the MSN download page with Opera and there is no Download link.
Here is how it looks in Opera:
![[MSN screenshot in Opera, no download link]](/opera/beyond30/images/msn-in-opera-x386x262.png "How the site appears in Opera")
Compare how it looks in Internet Explorer:
![[MSN screenshot in IE, with download link]](/opera/beyond30/images/msn-in-ie-359x336.png "How the site appears in Internet Explorer")
So apparently they don’t even want Opera folks using their Internet service.
Microsoft is again deliberately sabotaging Opera.
Just when you think they might have learned something from being sued over how they run their business, MSN has been purposefully sending a bogus stylesheet and a page with reduced content to people who use Opera.
Think it’s sour grapes? Over exaggerated? Blown out of proportion? Well, before you decide, read the evidence: Opera report on the problem as they investigated it.
Then read the reports from C|Net (Opera cries foul against MSN--again) and The Register (MSN deliberately breaks Opera's browser, claims company).
Does this all sound familiar? Yeah, we’ve been here before. On October 25, 2001, C|Net reported MSN.com shuts out non-Microsoft browsers.
Greymagic uncovered a few security bugs in Opera 7.0. Opera 7.01 was released to address these bugs.
GreyMagic commented: Opera once again lived up to its excellent response record and released version 7.01, only 5 days after initial notification. The new version appears to fix all of the reported issues. Upgrade as soon as possible.
Please note: There are no new features in 7.01. Waiting for those would have slowed the release of a security update. So do not whine when you see that your pet bugs were not fixed. Opera has their priorities straight and got the fixes out the door as soon as practical.
my.opera.com has shed its previously garish look for something much better, and much more in line with the new design of opera.com not too long ago.
Go see.
Get thee to Opera.com to download it.
CNet reports Opera7 will be out January 28th. No official announcement yet.
Accessify has a new article up: Checking your site for accessibility using Opera
(hat tip: Nick Bradbury, TopStyle creator.)
Always nice to see more people teaching the good news of browsers ;-)
If you use Windows XP, there is a patch which will let you use your own browser (say, Opera) instead of IE in a few more places.
Read Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 810565: Hyperlinks Open in Internet Explorer Instead of in Default Browser or Help and Support Center for more details.
For me this was useful only because it lets me put web items on my desktop (such as SearchMe Sidebar) and have access to them whenever I want, and have it open the results page in Opera.
Of course the cynical side of me would point out that they only released this patch for Windows XP, and I'm sure only because they felt some pressure to do so. So by giving in this tiny little bit (for something that should have always worked this way to begin with) they now have another "feature" to use when trying to sell XP.
That is all.
With its tiny screen, surfing the web with a mobile phone has been maddening. A clever new web browser could change all that..
Read more A quart into a pint pot (Economist.com)
That is all.
Opera 7 beta 2 has a really cool feature (IMO) called the Wand, which is a password manager, something I have wanted for some time now.
But not everyone agrees, and that's OK. Opera excels at adapting to user's preferences, rather than forcing users to adapt to One Way Of Doing Things.
So all you need to do is edit your 'opera6.ini' file. If you did NOT enable Multiple User Support, the file should be in the same directory where you installed Opera 7 beta 2.
If you did install Multiple User Support, it will be in your Profile directory, something like this:
c:\Documents and Settings\Timothy\Application Data\opera\7\profile\opera6.ini
NOTE: 'Application Data' is usually a hidden directory, so you may have to adjust your Windows Explorer settings to see it. And of course change "Timothy" to your login name, unless your login name is Timothy.
If you want the Wand Off, add this to the file (MAKE SURE OPERA IS NOT RUNNING):
You will have to add this setting, it does not exist by default.
To turn Wand OFF
[User Prefs]
Enable Wand=0
To turn Wand ON
[User Prefs]
Enable Wand=1
That is all.
Here's another feature that someone else should have thought of long ago, but it took the folks at Opera to actually implement.
Opera 7 has a feature called "Quick Download"
Basically when you right click on a file (PDF, EXE, ZIP, etc) it will give you the option to Quick Download a file, which immediately saves the file to your default download directory (goto Preferences, then Programs and Paths).
Why should you have to deal with a pop up window just to save a file when you've already set a download directory?
Oh, and if you just have the URL of a file you want to download? Go to the Transfers panel and put it into the Quick Download space at the top of that panel.
(Power user tip: Go to Preferences then Sounds and set a distinctive sound to play when a Transfer is complete, so you'll know when it is done)
For your hotlist Opera 7 Bug report sidebar.
Be sure to read the instructions before use.
This will make it easier to report a bug because you can just see the form in your Hotlist, fill out the information, and submit.
Please let me know if there are any problems with it.
Oh yeah....
Opera 7, beta 2, for Windows has been released.
This rocks. As anyone who actually reads this little site knows, I love Opera, but Beta 2 is very cool.
M2 is the best mail client ever. Sure it's not perfect yet, but I love it. Accesspoints are awesome. Filters have been improved. For those of you coming over from Outlook Express, there is an import feature. I imported messages from Outlook into Mozilla, and then imported them into M2 and it worked flawlessly, and I'm talking about 20,000 messages (yes really).
There's also the Wand - a Password Manager for Opera. Yup... and it works really well too.
Then there's the Links panel in the Hotlist, which shows you all of the links in given page.
You can now Drag and Drop the panels into whatever order you prefer them to be in, and they will stay there. You can also choose to show or hide the built-in panels.
One of these days I'll have to talk about all the configuration you can do to change the menus and the keyboard shortcuts, but for now, go and check it out!
Opera 6 for Mac OS 8.6-10.2 Unleashed
“With today’s release we confirm our commitment to the Mac platform,” says Mary Lambert, product line manager desktop, Opera Software ASA. “Mac is an important part of our cross-platform strategy, and we are working hard to ensure that Opera for Mac will become the default browser for Mac users.”
Opera7.0 beta1 version 2 (aka 7.0b1b) was released a few days ago. This is a security release, not a feature release. It’s always a good idea to keep up with the opera.beta newsgroup and Opera.com when running a beta. Unfortunately the naming is a bit obscure, but life is like that sometimes.
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30 Days to becoming an Opera Lover is now available in two download formats.
The two options are a PDF file (with bookmarks for each day) and a single (loooong) HTML page, both about 1.2 megabytes in size. Enjoy.
An update for Opera7 is planned once Opera7 goes final.
When Opera came out with an integrated email client, many people complained.
I was one of them.
I'm here to tell you I was wrong.
Opera's sessions lets you save a group of windows.
Or several.
The windows will be saved exactly as they are shown, window size, position, history, etc.
You can set some up to start when you start Opera, or use the startup screen (previously useful only after a crash) to select which saved session you want to use.
Try something new. Play around with it. Be brave.
File > Sessions > Save Session
Opera7 lets you put FOLDERS in your Personal Bar!
Why would you want to do this?
You want to get under the hood? Opera gives you not only the latch release, but a full set of tweakery tools.
Opera has always done bookmarks better than other browsers. Opera7 continues the trend.
The Window Bar is now the Page Bar. This is probably related somehow to the MDI + SDI thing they've got going on.
Life is change. Embrace it.
That is all.
For now.
Yeah Mozilla had the Site Navigation Bar first, but Opera's doing in better. How? Keyboard controls.
Turn on by View > Navigation Bar (use AUTO to have it appear only when needed)
See 'Navigation > Site Navigation' for key strokes, but the best two are shift+z for Previous and shift+x for Next.
Opera 7 rocks!
Opera 6 let you block pop up windows.
Opera 7 lets you block all pop ups or allow "requested" pop ups for sites that use them.
Use F12 or File > Preferences > Windows and select "Open Requested Pop up windows only"
Opera continues to be the best browser (IMO ;-) for accessibility testing with its new Opera 7 beta 1 release.
Opera7 ships with several default Style Sheets which directly benefit those testing accessibility issues or those who need accessibility features.
Default Styles Sheets include:
Emulate Text Browser
Accessibility Layout
Show images and links only
High Contrast (white on black or black on white)
Disable Tables
(and others)
These can be accessed via View > Styles or by clicking the DOWN ARROW in the Addressbar
Opera 7 beta 1 has been released.
You can get it for $30 (full license).
This is a beta test cycle.
There will be NO whining.
Be part of the solution (use it, report problems [clearly, using clean language, and providing URLs for sites that do not work rather than "Opera 7 messed up at lots of places"]).
This is beta software. Some features are missing.
This is beta software. It may crash.
It is beta software. Do not act like a jerk when you run into problems.
That is all.
...our display code people definitely do not (to put it
mildly) like the way IE do a lot of things; they've got their own
ideas about how to do things, for example how to pack functionality
into such a small package that it fits quite nicely on a mobile phone
(try to fit the IE engine into that, without losing functionality, and
without converting that pocket phone into a laptop phone, or should
that be a desktop phone?), and how the various tags in the various
display languages should be interpreted and displayed.
Read the full post (Hey, what's that URL at the bottom of his .sig?)
Unlike some other browsers, Opera makes it easy to disable Flash.