january 29, 2006 : steve kong : 9 comment(s)
Update: After some playing with Opera, I am going back to the Gecko-based browsers. Read about why here. I'll stick with Opera Mobile on my Nokia 6682 and Opera Mini on my Motorola Razr though.
Ok, I am tired of Firefox crashing at work because of resources. I am tired of Firefox eating up half of my 1GB of RAM on my Powerbook at home -- and then slowing down to a crawl. I ran Camino last week at home and it was fine. I like Camino, very fast. I tried Omniweb 5.1 earlier today and almost switched -- too bad Omniweb bombs when it hits Yahoo! News.
I tried Opera on Friday at work on my Windows PC and it worked well. The only thing that didn't work was Tiny Tiny RSS (the RSS aggregator I use). So, today, I installed Feed on Feeds (another RSS aggregator) and switched my Powerbook over to Opera. When I get to work, I'll switch my work PC to Opera as well. My Nokia 6682 has been running Opera Mobile since I got the phone. And my Motorola RAZR is Opera Mini. I had disparaged Opera earlier when they started distributing it for free. Now I am finding that maybe it is the web browser that I will be using across all the platforms I digitally live in!
There are some things that I need to get used to. For instance: CTRL-T (and CMD-T on Mac) does not open a new tab like in Firefox! CTRL-N (and CMD-N on Mac) does the new tab opening. The formatting bar shows up in Wordpress, so I can use that. But, WYSIWYG mode does not work in Wordpress. Either I haven't figured it out yet, or it can't be done: The toolbars are in a different order than in Firefox. In Firefox, I had it: Address bar, Bookmarks bar, and Tabs bar. In Opera, it seems to be stuck at: Bookmarks bar, Tabs bar, and Address bar. Maybe they can be moved, maybe someone can leave a comment.
I will give Opera a really good try across all platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Symbian). I have to switch my home Windows XP notebook over to Opera. And my home Linux notebook will get an install of Opera also. We'll see how this all goes!
Comments
Here's the answer on how to get the address bar on top:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=73323
Basically, customize the Main bar to look/act like the Address bar.
January 29, 2006 @ 07:27 PM
There are some things that I need to get used to. For instance: CTRL-T (and CMD-T on Mac) does not open a new tab like in Firefox! CTRL-N (and CMD-N on Mac) does the new tab
The Opera 9 tp 1 available from snapshot.opera.com has ctrl/cmd-T as the default "New tab" shortcut.
January 30, 2006 @ 03:54 AM
Steve,
As Arve pointed out obove, the next major release (Opera 9) will change the CTRL+T shortcut to act like Firefox and other browsers.
With regard to the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress, I'm using Wordpress 2.0 with Opera 9, it works fine. I haven't really tried it out with the latest stable release, Opera 8.51, so it may be a problem with that version alone.
January 30, 2006 @ 05:06 AM
Thanks guys for the tips. I will try out Opera 9. But, I think I will stick with Camino (Mac) and Firefox (Windows/Linux) for my day-to-day stuff.
January 30, 2006 @ 08:44 AM
Hi guys.
I am from Brazil. I am just giving a try to Opera 9 beta.
Does any of you know how to make Opera open links from the address bar and its hotlist into new tabs? I hope i don't have to press any keyboard keys in the way of shortcuts for this.
Thanks in advance for your attention.
Regards,
Axyl
Axyl
April 13, 2006 @ 08:59 AM
With regard to the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress, I’m using Wordpress 2.0 with Opera 9, it works fine. I haven’t really tried it out with the latest stable release, Opera 8.51, so it may be a problem with that version alone
December 11, 2006 @ 09:28 PM
I went away from Opera for a long time. I recently tried Opera 9 and can say I LOVE it and wil continue to use it.
December 12, 2006 @ 10:47 AM
I use Opera and like a few features, like putting shortcuts(nicknames) to websites. Very helpful when you are lazy like me :)
Also the automated 30 seconds reload is a great advantage.
December 21, 2006 @ 01:30 PM
i like too opera he work very nice
January 4, 2007 @ 08:25 AM