I know it's two weeks ago, but no one made a topic on it

So, do you plan on using it?

It's mainly a technical update, with speed greatly increased, although some great tweaks have been done, such as putting the options to choose to display only images in the cache or no images (horribly useful sometimes) and the zoom option always available at the bottom right à la IE (but IE does NOT have that nifty images feature).

It also has IRC, and an almost fully customizable graphical interface.

Moreover, it's free!

http://www.opera.com

Got a friend, who just started using it about a week ago, he likes it.

I thought this update of Opera, was entirely UI orientated?

~5ilence

I use to use Opera, because I heard it was faster then Internet explorer
But that was a long time ago, Firefox all the way

-Ming

I'm using IE6, with the bare essentials that I need. I've taken away, all the buttons but, Forward / Back, Home and Stop / Refresh. And I've got a custom made browser on the way, which just uses Microsofts .net framework.

To each his own, right?

~5ilence

EDIT: My System wont flip out if I have two Internet browsers installed right?

I like Opera. It has a lot of really cool features, that neither IE or Firefox have. Also when compared to those two browsers it has a real sense of style. In terms of just the look of the browser, Opera is miles ahead of both Firefox and IE. But there are just a couple of things that are keeping me from using it.



Nope, not at all.

I would use it if it didn't work with anything I use.

In what way doesn't it work?

I'm using it right now. Quite a good Browser, and I love the speed dialing, and mouse flicking options

~5ilence

It's the most compatible browser in the world...

But then again, you could get those as ad-ons for Firefox. I have both of those features in Firefox right now.

Add-ons take space and slow the browser down. Opera has those built in ;D

And I can think of quite a bit of things fx add-ons can't give you.

I use something called finalsite for making and hosting websites, and it's not compatible.



Look above

~Fybl100

Im gettign this right now, firefox just messed up majorly, deleting my history, and favorites.

About Opera and Firefox: they are both awesome browsers - think of Firefox as a Hummvee (you can mount everything and then some on one) and of Opera as a sports car (fast and sleek, but there are few ways to expand it...not that you'd need to anyway).

And when you have a microphone, you can command the browser with your voice. Few practical application, but a sense of divine might when you say "Reload" and the browser reloads the page.

(It's also rather cool to use on sites where you want quick refreshes, and you can tell the browser to refresh every X seconds for even more convenience. ) (The ability of reading out pages is also awesome. It's extremely practical for those humongous tl;dr posts on Sal's. )

I've been using Opera for a couple years and think its great. One thing I like about it is that it's customizable through regular .ini files, and you can also add custom buttons to the Personal Bar (one that comes in handy is a "open current page in Ffx" for those sites that absolutely refuse to work in Opera.)

It also has a right-click spell check that gives suggested correct spellings (on Windows and Linux it needs GNU Aspell installed).

Opera's install and use of the configuration files hasn't changed from version to version either (for the most part) and you can easily save the needed files to get it set up quickly on a fresh Windows install.

Couple of things I wasn't to happy about on 9.50 though - the Speeddial automatically refreshes when the personal data is cleared, and when I went to install it on Windows I noticed that it no longer had the option to install "one profile for all users" (which is what I liked since Im the only user).

They provide an updated repository for Ubuntu now though, so I guess I can't complain too much!

Ahaha. Now you can make use of all them innuendo filled quotes people seem to have of you everywhere

~5ilence

Hehe, nice comparison. That's how I'd compare Windows to Mac.

Meh, nobody has mentioned Safari I absolutely adore the sexy gray look I think I'm going to try out Opera... Would like to see how it operates and it's features and all that

Might start using it as Firefox 2 is getting a bit bland and Firefox 3 failed.

Heh heh. That voice command is almost un-necessary. Nothing is better than good ol' Ctrl + F5! But, that is cool

I prefer SeaMonkey, but Opera is a good browser.

Just downloaded Opera to try it out because I need two browsers for something, and I don't really like it, if I am honest. I'd probably get used to it though, if I used it. One thing I noticed, it doesn't work with Facebook chat.

I have tryed all the browsers without Opera..
Maybe i should try it out.
Is it its own engine, or is it built on IE? (those built-ons are bad)
Would that voice commands come in norwegian?
If not, i dont think its a good feature..

It isn't using an IE engine, but I don't know what it does use; quite likely its own.

I am pretty sure that it uses it's own engine.

Also: Opera was updated to version 9.51 a few days ago

It uses the Presto engine, which is developed by Opera Software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_%28layout_engine%29

Also the voice commands are available just in English, but that's quite a minor hindrance.

...how is that a con?

Not if you don't speak English very well.



Your missing out on the whole social networking revolution.

Whoops, I forgot. Page reading is only in English, but voice commands are fully customisable. ( http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/voice/custom/ ).

My spoken English is abysmal, however I managed to use the default voice commands quite productively...now let's see this customisation thing now that I've found it out...

wtf is social r u using big words to maek fun of me

That's quite enough of the drug for you.

Soon you'll be spending more time on there than you do here.

I couldn't see myself using page reading anyway, I tried it would Adobe Reader once and never tried again.



I would try it out but I have no mic handy.







I already do. I've been signed up for 72 hours and probably spent 24 hours on it.

Its good though, a cross between Miniclip and Bebo.

Hrrrrmph, kids these days. Back when I was your age, all we needed to score some booty was a pair of trousers and a shirt and a couple of roofies.

I guess they're right, the farther you go in time and the more complicated it gets. Hrrrmph.

I sometimes use it to read pages while doing housework or studying while playing Championship Manager.

Also, the female voice is quite hot. (there are multiple voices)

I hated the new Opera so I downgraded back to Firefox 2 Reading pages, you say? Oh I could use that to get it to read while I play Rs and I want to find the idiots on Sals...

I'm in the process of downloading it now - not because I'm unhappy with firefox. This thread just made me curious.

I have Firefox and Opera installed at tthe moment, and Opera seems to be running a bit more smoothly than FF.
However, I can't open RS on Opera when it worked on FF. D:

The interface looks a lot better than FF as well.

Facebooks chat works for me

Only problem I have had is iSketch doesn't work

It doesn't have sounds, so I don't know if I have someone talking to me if Facebook is open in a different window.

Ive used opera for a bit now, and I like it better then firefox.

Meh, if you really need facebook chat you can open a whole window for it
I never use sounds, since I just look for a red tag while actually using facebook

I have some problems with the <strong> code. I basically gave it up.