rachel on 8/2/2006 at 14:43
(
http://labs.opera.com/news/2006/02/07/2/)
Includes "widgets", bittorrent support, thumbnail preview, etc.
Still in development, and as such potentially unstable. Haven't had a problem so far, everything looks great.
mOdEtWo on 8/2/2006 at 21:41
I *love* the new "block content" feature. It even removes the whitespace left by the blocked ads.
Way to go, Opera. :)
Navyhacker006 on 8/2/2006 at 21:59
While traveling to this thread, I thought, "Hopefully we'll be able to set our pop-up block level on a site-by-site basis" Hurrah for mind-reading Opera developers!
Uncia on 8/2/2006 at 21:59
Cool beans, no more need to manually edit the search.ini file.
Omega on 8/2/2006 at 23:30
Quote Posted by Uncia
Cool beans, no more need to manually edit the search.ini file.
Well, there was (
http://opera-info.xorg.pl/en/) the third party app that you could use. :)
Like I said on some other forums, I don't know if I find the widget stuff all to useful. Who wants an analog clock on their desktop anyway. :p
Uncia on 8/2/2006 at 23:38
It's exactly as useful as Firefox's extensions; that is, they both depend on a 3rd party to produce stuff people would need/like.
Omega on 9/2/2006 at 00:50
We shall see. ;)
Somnus on 9/2/2006 at 23:15
I'm intrigued by some of the features listed here, but I'm not very familiar with Opera. Is it "better" or "worse" than Firefox for general browsings of the Internets and usage of Bit Torrent? I'm a computer nerd myself, though a lite edition I suppose, so I'm not really what would be called a casual, run-of-the-mill consumer. Yeah. Anyways.
EDIT: Never mind, it's just a technology preview. I'm still interested in trying Opera out now, though.
Uncia on 10/2/2006 at 00:23
Nowadays all browsers do the basic Browsing The Interweb thing decently (well okay, IE less decently still, but...), it's mostly the little things that tend to draw people to different ones. Opera is speedy and has a fully configurable UI, while Firefox can flex some really nifty muscles with its extensions, that kind of stuff.
Try them and see. I wish Opera had Firefox's extensions, but I wouldn't trade its speed for anything.
D'Juhn Keep on 18/4/2007 at 13:40
Just upgraded to 9.20, is there any way of disabling the stupidly large "page preview" thingy that pops up when I hover over a tab?
