Opera gives away free registration codes for its birthday!
http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml
Opera's 10th birthday party
Opera's 10th birthday party
if you're looking for me, start looking on irc, i'm probably there.
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go to "tools" - "extensions" and install the googlebar 0.9.12 extension. It's even better than IE's googlebar.
and I just ran into a torrent search bar extension that works pretty cool and an all in one sidebar which is also very handy: (besides built in chatzilla, ftp client, web developing tools, etc etc) . It's up to you which extensions to install!
http://www.danielpatton.com/afecelis/sc ... action.jpg
but I won't deny opera's gift was a great one. Banners do hurt my eyes!
go to "tools" - "extensions" and install the googlebar 0.9.12 extension. It's even better than IE's googlebar.
and I just ran into a torrent search bar extension that works pretty cool and an all in one sidebar which is also very handy: (besides built in chatzilla, ftp client, web developing tools, etc etc) . It's up to you which extensions to install!
http://www.danielpatton.com/afecelis/sc ... action.jpg
but I won't deny opera's gift was a great one. Banners do hurt my eyes!
Opera 'review'
I had never used Opera before, and after trying it for a couple of days,
here is my opinion of it.
Opera is an absolutely beautiful browser. The the whole thing just looks great,
definitely the browser that looks the best out of the box.
I'm not a big fan of browsing in tabs, but I could get used to it after a while, i'm sure.
It also seems to load pages faster, and the detailed progressbar is a nice touch.
The first problem i ran in to is plugins, Opera does not have an automatic plugin-installer.
no biggie, i can install the flash player manually, but when i want to open a site with
multimedia content, Opera redirects me to Microsoft Media player plugin....
I'm not sure how they imagine i'd install that on my Gentoo Linux system.
Minor annoyances, nothing a little manual tweaking can't fix.
Opera has its built-in popup blocker, nice, but these days i would expect nothing less from
a modern web-browser. What annoys me, is that I can't find the addblocker, not built-in,
and not as a plugin. I do not want to see banners for amazon.com, viagra online,
friendfinders, school reunion, or whatever.
This really bugs me because i was used to this functionality from firefox.
The last straw that made me switch back to Firefox: some pages are simply not rendered correctly!
I enjoy reading online comics, and when Opera displays an add OVER the comic, that is simply unforgivable.
Conclusion:
+ goodlooking, friendly interface, fast
- no automatic plugin installer, no addblocker plugin, some rendering problems
My opinion is, if you're used to Firefox, stick with it. If you're used to IE, i guess i must blame google.
here is my opinion of it.
Opera is an absolutely beautiful browser. The the whole thing just looks great,
definitely the browser that looks the best out of the box.
I'm not a big fan of browsing in tabs, but I could get used to it after a while, i'm sure.
It also seems to load pages faster, and the detailed progressbar is a nice touch.
The first problem i ran in to is plugins, Opera does not have an automatic plugin-installer.
no biggie, i can install the flash player manually, but when i want to open a site with
multimedia content, Opera redirects me to Microsoft Media player plugin....
I'm not sure how they imagine i'd install that on my Gentoo Linux system.
Minor annoyances, nothing a little manual tweaking can't fix.
Opera has its built-in popup blocker, nice, but these days i would expect nothing less from
a modern web-browser. What annoys me, is that I can't find the addblocker, not built-in,
and not as a plugin. I do not want to see banners for amazon.com, viagra online,
friendfinders, school reunion, or whatever.
This really bugs me because i was used to this functionality from firefox.
The last straw that made me switch back to Firefox: some pages are simply not rendered correctly!
I enjoy reading online comics, and when Opera displays an add OVER the comic, that is simply unforgivable.
Conclusion:
+ goodlooking, friendly interface, fast
- no automatic plugin installer, no addblocker plugin, some rendering problems
My opinion is, if you're used to Firefox, stick with it. If you're used to IE, i guess i must blame google.
if you're looking for me, start looking on irc, i'm probably there.
