The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Opera 11 to have Extensions

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Jayayess1190, Oct 14, 2010.

  1. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

    Reputations:
    4,009
    Messages:
    6,712
    Likes Received:
    54
    Trophy Points:
    216
    Link

    2nd best browser keeps getting better.
     
    Jayayess1190, Oct 14, 2010
    #1
  2. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

    Reputations:
    4,009
    Messages:
    6,712
    Likes Received:
    54
    Trophy Points:
    216
    Techcrunch has a video showing off the extensions.

    <src="http://player.ooyala.com/player.js?embedCode=R1M2hyMTr9UnYMKX4aicOYX8Jc6R-ZFK&deepLinkEmbedCode=R1M2hyMTr9UnYMKX4aicOYX8Jc6R-ZFK&width=630&height=354"></script>
     
    Jayayess1190, Oct 17, 2010
    #2
  3. booboo12

    booboo12 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    4,062
    Messages:
    4,272
    Likes Received:
    93
    Trophy Points:
    116
    If they get the big extensions that Firefox (left due to crashes, memory consumption, etc... threw hands up and am done with it) and Chrome (slow as a snail) have w/out affecting browser performance, I'd switch to it from IE 9. :)
     
    booboo12, Oct 17, 2010
    #3
  4. Matt is Pro

    Matt is Pro I'm a PC, so?

    Reputations:
    347
    Messages:
    2,169
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Chrome for me is the fastest browser of the lot.

    Go over to Ars Technica. They did a fairly comprehensive study of all the major browsers and found that Chrome was by far the fastest.
     
    Matt is Pro, Oct 17, 2010
    #4
  5. Apollo13

    Apollo13 100% 16:10 Screens

    Reputations:
    1,432
    Messages:
    2,578
    Likes Received:
    210
    Trophy Points:
    81
    ... and that Opera was consistently second-fastest. Really though, for all browsers except IE, features have the possibility to close any rendering gap.

    I'm not all that enthused about this "extensions" concept though. Part of what I like about Opera is that it has great out-of-the-box functionality and you don't have to go hunting for extensions to get top-notch funtionality. Now, I wouldn't mind getting Silverlight and various other Netscape API extensions to work a bit more smoothly, but I don't think that's at all the point of these extensions. Not that they'll be a bad thing, it just seems like it's pursuing the Firefox strategy. Which makes sense for Firefox, but I'm not sure if it makes sense for Opera.
     
    Apollo13, Oct 17, 2010
    #5
  6. Matt is Pro

    Matt is Pro I'm a PC, so?

    Reputations:
    347
    Messages:
    2,169
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the whole extensions movement, hence why I don't use them, though I do think it is an overall good thing to have them available.
     
    Matt is Pro, Oct 17, 2010
    #6
  7. Nankuru

    Nankuru Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    215
    Messages:
    592
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Yeah, I love not having to faff about tweaking the thing to get it how I like.

    I think the last speed comparison I read actually put Opera ahead of Chrome, but I don't think these comparisons mean much. I don't think speed is an issue for most of us. What I care about is security and privacy which is why I switched to Opera in the first place.

    I hope that these extensions don't compromise security or privacy.
     
    Nankuru, Oct 18, 2010
    #7
  8. booboo12

    booboo12 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    4,062
    Messages:
    4,272
    Likes Received:
    93
    Trophy Points:
    116
    I'm all for extensions for Opera, because while many say it's feature packed...using some of those features is not easy. Take Ad-Blocking. Just the other day I googled to see if Opera offers it. You can do it through a "content filtering" part of Opera but it requires a bit of configuration to avoid chopping legitimate stuff off webpages, cutting and pasting a list of sites into a specific text file in a folder, etc....

    Meanwhile on chrome or firefox....3 clicks and a program restart (firefox anyway) later and boom, good to go.
     
    booboo12, Oct 19, 2010
    #8
  9. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

    Reputations:
    4,009
    Messages:
    6,712
    Likes Received:
    54
    Trophy Points:
    216
    First Opera 11 Alpha with extension support released.

     
    Jayayess1190, Oct 21, 2010
    #9
  10. Bullit

    Bullit Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    122
    Messages:
    864
    Likes Received:
    9
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Bullit, Oct 24, 2010
    #10
  11. Apollo13

    Apollo13 100% 16:10 Screens

    Reputations:
    1,432
    Messages:
    2,578
    Likes Received:
    210
    Trophy Points:
    81
    That's a nice option. Some guy's been releasing a tweaked version of Opera targeting USB drives for awhile now, but the official option is a definite plus. I put Opera (regular install) on my network drive at my university way back when (9.50 or 10.00 Alpha, can't remember which was first, now I have 10.6x there), and while it still was way better than IE and Opera Sync made it better than Firefox, it was minorly annoying that it didn't keep my preferred settings (such as turning on single-key shortcuts). Hopefully this'll solve that.
     
    Apollo13, Oct 24, 2010
    #11