Opera 9!

[Psykotik]

Opera have just released version 9 of their much loved browser.

New features I've found include:

Thumbnail view:
Hover the mouse over your tabbed pages and you get a thumbnail showing the page content, very useful if you have multiple posts open in the same forum!

Widgets! Opera now has loads of really cool and useful widgets you can add. (I'm using the BBC news reader at the moment)

Built in Bit-Torrent client :D

Content blocker: Right hand click on an annoying advert/flash banner and choose to block it :-)

RSS detector. There's now an RSS icon situated in the address bar whenever a site has a feed. Clickety and go!

Of course there are the usual tabbed browsing, voice control, transfer manager, mouse gestures and built in IRC client features too.

Click the Opera logo in my sig to find out more about the new release and perhaps give it a go, or alternatively click here (http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/)

[Da_Rude_Baboon]

I <3 Opera, much better then the smelly old fox. The new features sound cool.

[fillip]

May have to give it a whirl. :slap: for DRB for insulting the Fox. :-p

[furious trout]

hmm I installed it yesterday to see what all the fuss is about, seems ok, but i still prefer FF :shrug:

[Psykotik]

Any particular reasons you prefer FF?
The main reasons I've heard are the default skin and layout, but that's so easily fixable it's untrue, and a lot of previous doubters have been swayed once it's configured a bit more simplistically. I <3 my Opera :wub:

[furious trout]

I'll be honest with you, I have FF set up to exactly what I want, and I can get it to that stage from a clean install in about 5 mins. I haven't really got the time (or inclination if I'm truely honest) to sit and fiddle about with another browser to get it how I like it. That being said, I will keep it installed, as I'm sure at some point I'll be stuck in a hotel room or an airport with nothing to do for a few hours, and I can play about with it then.

I guess if I was coming to Opera direct from IE I might be more inclined to suck it and see, as I wouldn't be used to the features I use in FireFox on a daily basis :shrug:

[Psykotik]

^^ That's pretty much most Firefox users reasoning Dave, and I can't blame you as that's exactly how I felt when I first fired up FF :lol:

[Pug]

I've been getting more and more disillusioned with FF since 1.5 came out.
I'm tempted to roll back to 1.07, tbh.

I do use Opera as a backup browser, so I'll be grabbing 9 later. Cheers for the heads up, Andy.

[walkitiki]

Personally, I didnt' like the way it handled RSS feeds. I like how FireFox will just have it as a pulldown menu on the favorites bar. I didn't like the fact that with Opera I had to open a whole new window/tab and look at a page of links.

[Darv]

Cheers for the heads up. I'll be downloading this when I get home.

I've been using Opera since verison 6 I think and I would never go back. Firefox is okay but I can't be bothered to look for the plugins that Opera has by default. I love the mouse gestures, built in IRC (although it's very simple), the tabbed browsing is way better than Firefox (right click, open in background tab or new tab is really useful)


BTW, the Bit-Torrent client and RSS thigns were in the last version. Albeit they weren't great so I hope they've improved apon them.

[fillip]

the tabbed browsing is way better than Firefox (right click, open in background tab or new tab is really useful)


In FF - Move mouse over link and click mouse wheel to open into a new tab, what's so hard about that? Easier than Opera. :-p

[Psykotik]

In FF - Move mouse over link and click mouse wheel to open into a new tab, what's so hard about that? Easier than Opera. :-p

The same in Opera in fact :-p

[GodsUnicorn]

I'm with Pug on this one, 1.5 has been pretty poor IMO, but I will give the new Opera a try.

Cheers Andy.

[fillip]

The same in Opera in fact :-p

Having never used it I can only argue what people tell me. :-p

[bobvillain]

i've been trying it out, and it seems pretty cool. but two things have me not liking it as much as firefox at the moment.
1) there doesn't seem to be a quick way to have a links toolbar. i haven't looked but for a second, and i haven't looked it up online or anything, but i feel like this should be a very easy setting, not something i should have to search for.

2)it has less compatibility than firefox/ie. my university email web client won't work with opera. the one thing i noticed is it handles video straight out of the box better than firefox did. (although it might just be the things i had to install to get vids working on firefox work for opera as well)

[Psykotik]

It does take a bit longer to configure if you're coming from IE or FF as things are set out differently, but it is very intuitive.

I have my USB version setup like this (http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/mrgimp_2006/screenie.jpg) and it does me proud :-)

[bobvillain]

yeah, i found the "show on personal bar" box in properties, and then i realized you can select it on right-click, then i realized you can select multple bookmarks and do it.

[Da_Rude_Baboon]

2)it has less compatibility than firefox/ie. my university email web client won't work with opera. the one thing i noticed is it handles video straight out of the box better than firefox did. (although it might just be the things i had to install to get vids working on firefox work for opera as well)

press F11 or 12, i cant remember which lol, and select identify as opera. Should fix the problem.

[Darv]

In FF - Move mouse over link and click mouse wheel to open into a new tab, what's so hard about that? Easier than Opera.
Doesn't work with my mouse for some reason :h34r: But do you get the option to open in a new tab and go straight to that tab, or open it in the background and stay on your current page. :-p

A cool trick people may not know is if you hold down the right button and scroll the wheel, a list of all yours tabs comes up in the order you last looked at them. Is quite cool for changing tabs really quickly. :thumb:


2)it has less compatibility than firefox/ie. my university email web client won't work with opera.

That's poor coding by your university tbh.

[jaguarking11]

Ive been complaning about firefox for the last 4months or so. And I even started a thread about it. All I got was that I was doing something wrong.

In any case. im still on FF. Ill have to see how opera 9 is. Im shure if I spend a fiew minutes with it I can have it running the way I want.

In any case. If this browser dosent work im going back to crappy old IE or just get IE7.

[Pug]

I have Opera configured to open in a new tab whether I middle-click or left-click. Left-click brings the new tab into focus, whilst middle opens it in the background.

The single most impressive thing about Opera for me is the 'Paste & Go' ability.
I'm surprised no other browser implements it.
I'd find it hard to give up my FF Rt-click search engines like IMDB & so on though.

I did install Opera on a machine I built for someone recently but it didn't play well with the Logitech SetPoint software from her laser mouse (it's got one of those tilting mouse wheels which I configured for Back & Forward, in the absense of any thumb buttons); so I set her up with FF, installed SiteAdvisor, NoScript & Tab Mix Plus and left her to it.

[jaguarking11]

Well I adopted opera eversince it was linked here with the new version.

Ive used it since. Wll untill today. I am sick and tired of it. Im back on ff.

Too many bugs for my taste and slower than FF too.

The peskiset bug it developed was the fact that it decided on its own to log me out of all the forums I visit. It wasent the cookies cleard as the rest of my saves stayed on.

Another anoying thing is that it ocasionaly crashes when I got from 12-15 open pages at once to 2-3.

I gave it a shot, now back on FF. Im now contemplating IE7 or something.

It seems no matter how hard I look I cant find a browser that suits me well (closest thing was FF to date). I guess Ill keep on trying.

[PrinzII]

I'll have to download this on the Opty because I like to have all three browsers on hand for when I am testing some websites I designed.

[wizkid]

There's really no browser to rule them all. Use whatever floats your boat. I do agree with the starter of the thread though. I've been using Opera for the last couple of years now. I love it's speed and response, w3c standard compliance and overall functionality. That said, I i still use Thunderbird as my main mail reader and uTorrent for bittorrent downloads, but that might change in the future. I've also experienced some quirks on this board like jaguarking, thought not as severe. Particulary with the board not remembering which posts I've read. Not sure, but I guess that is cookie related too. All in all though, i <3 my Opera too :wub:

People with cookie problems might want to the check out the latest dev build. I think it fixes a few things about that.
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/