well trying opera 9.5 now and so far its pretty nice

actually faster than ff3.. and not a single crash yet.

question i have is why do some pages display all the way to the left? like normally my home page displays in the center of my 22" desktop monitor and on my notebook. with opera it displays over to the left leaving that whole other side empty. i didnt see a setting to change this but aybe i missed it?

any ideas.. otherwise running really very nice

 

I agree regarding Opera 9.5, it's pretty slick. I discovered it while waiting for FF3.

As for the pages not displaying right I have not encountered that. Did you change any settings in "appearance" ?

 

I love Opera, so much better than FF3 for me.

 

I'm beginning to feel that way as well. I love Opera's smooth scroll and Speed Dial as well as the overall look of the browser. It's also much lighter on the memory side as well.

 

Depends on the site if the screen is mostly in the left. Opera is faster than the previous but one thing I notice is that sometimes I can't log in to some sites with username/password. This is also true with Firefox3 but no problem with IE7. Must be a coding glitch. BTW FF3 I hear is already having a 'high' alert according to infoword.com

 

ff3 still is the best. opera is 2nd

 

i cant do without the inline spell checker. i know they have a spell check option for Opera but it doesn't work the same as FF's spell checker.

 

My opera 9.50 keeps freezing when i type a few letters and it really annoys me, i either have to close browser or right click the window on the task bar a few times to unfreeze it, waste of time for me..i went back to opera 9.27, i also have ff3 installed, anyone know how i can make opera default for links that i click from say msn or xfire? because ever since i installed ff3 its the browser that opens for links and not opera anymore.

Thanks.
Opera ftw =p

 

It's probably not so much to do with your settings as it has to do with how the browser operates. Each browser interprets the code for a website a little differently, so website designers try their best to make appearance uniform and acceptable for the large share of the market. However, I think opera takes a backseat to firefox and internet explorer simply because the market share is so low. Opera is nice and slick and sort of ahead of the curve as far as implementing new features for website designers, so it should display sites really well as long as the designers are up to par

 

It's what I used under Linux but I couldn't get flash to work on 64bits so...

 

Well the browser works and loads fine, but some content are unviewed and i have to use ff or ie, is there a way to make my opera default for links clicked from xfire or msn? it keeps opening ff even though opera is default, im using 9.27 for now until i get over the sudden freeze while typing on any website...

thanks again
tofu

 

Yea, like some videos form metacafe won`t load whatever I do...
But I`m fine with that.

 

Well its not like it bothers me, i am fine cause i can just use another browser, however the random freezes when im typing a search or logins really annoys me so i went back to 9.27 after 2days of use..

tofu

 

Opera is great and lightweight, but it can be too damned quirky at times. I have plenty of RAM now, so I just stick with Firefox.

 

Opera is blazing fast, has a classy black theme that looks better than Firefox IMO, and I had almost switched. But then I noticed some sites simply wouldn't load and those add-ons from Firefox I didn't have in Opera...I really missed them. So maybe next time.

 

How does the spell checker work, x64?

 

. 9.5 is totally worthless for what i use and need - especially the constant and unpexted crashes when combining vista and yahoo mail. Under XP, yahoo mail was a little stable, but still gave some surprising bombs sometimes. It must be worth noted that the snapshots before the "final" gave me ZERO issue with yahoo mail.

. 9.51, quoted from O devs "It's time for maintenance - we have been fixing several of the most reported issues in 9.50 ... "released a few days back, seems to address the yahoo issue under xp (i am able to go through the whole mail session w/o got knocked). Still have not tested fully under vista yet.

cheers ...

 

I've had no problems with Opera 9.5 at all - lucky, I guess. I actually prefer FF, but for the past few months, with any OS, whether the current or previous version, FF hangs like crazy, especially here at NBR. I'll put up with Opera's way too busy graphics and strange toolbars until FF is working better.

 

in firefox it automatically underlines what you spell wrong and you just right click and correct it.

in opera you have to download a spell checker add on and it works like the one in IE does. you have to select what you want to spell check, then bring up a box and select the correct word. its just a pain in the ass compared to FF's spell checker.

 

Wow, you guys have had some bad luck with browser stability. I used to be able to crash Opera 9.27 by browsing to any Myspace.com page or Msnbc.com page. Now in 9.5, I haven't had a single program crash.

 

i have had one crash with opera so far.. but not to bad i do really like ff3 much better overall though and i miss it

 

Thanks, x64.

 

Never had a problem with Opera and I've been using it for about 2 years. I used it on Ubunut, XP Pro, Vista Home 32bit, and now with Ultimate x64. Not one crash, not one unstable website, nothing at all.

 

I've found 9.5 a little buggy. For reasons I can't seem to decern it will sometimes fail to completely empty the cache when using the 'clear private data' button. It will hold on to a page and its elements and just wont let go. I've also caught it holding on to a couple of cookies, but not for the same page as what is locked up in cache - and while having cookies set to delete at shut down. If the cache is set to empty at shutdown, then no items are visible in the cache. A hold-over from 9.27 is the infuriating inability to select all the text in the url bar and form fields by clicking on it. It just goes back and forth between selecting one word and selecting nothing.

That said, it has some nice features as well. 'Paste and go' is a treat. Adding 'blocked content' to site preferences is nice - allowing a more aggressive block list. I think 9.51 or 9.52 stand to be make a very nice browser.

 

The click once and select the whole field thing works for me.

A neat trick with the "content blocker" is exploiting it to block pretty much all ads. You can download a very good adblocking list here.

 

I went back and tried it everywhere; the address bar; the search box, form fields. It is selecting in all of them. Go figure.

 

I'd never tried Opera until this week. I like it a lot - Speed Dial is simply AWESOME. I've not had it crash in either Mac OS X 10.5.3 or Vista SP1. What I have noticed, like others mentioned, is some webpages wont fully load, or for me, wont load at all. Not a big deal, as they are ones I dont frequent that often anyway. Speed of the browser is really quick with the sites that will render fully. What I have noticed, though, is scrolling is a bit choppy in OS X, but smooth in Vista. All in all, I likes it!

 

If you hit a page that wont load correctly you can right click the page and select 'open with' > Internet Explorer. It's a bit of a pain if it's a page you visit often.

 

Works for me in all the three, Opera 9.27, Opera 9.50 and Opera 9.51.

 

Ok, ok, I'll try opera and give you my impression.

 

I've been using opera for about a year now, besides some websites that don't like it I've had not problems. Besides the horendous default skin on 9.5 anyway (but that is easily fixed).

 

Yeah, I just downloaded it and what an ugly menu, black and white, what, not enough script to put color in it?

 

okay why does opera insist everything i print from it comes out super tiny on the pages where in ff3 everything prints normal as does it in vista?? man that drove me nuts i just had to reprint like 20 pages of stuff....

 

Just increase the font.

 

no its not just the font its the whole page it printed in like a quarter of the full page

 

Go to File - Print Options - Scale print to, and set it to 100%.

 

ill check that out thanks

 

It sounds as the Firefox 3 has set itself as your default web browser. To customize your default web browser (XP), go to Control Panel --> Classic View --> Add or Remove Programs --> Set Program Access and Defaults, then Custom, and select a web browser. I think Vista has a Program Access and Defaults link directly on the start menu; if not it might have one under All Programs. Or you can go into Opera options and recheck "check for default browser", then quit and restart Opera and tell it to make itself the default browser.

Quite true. I'm not sure if Firefox 2 or Opera 9.2 was worse with memory, but I got both into hundreds of megabytes before. I actually used IE 6 over Opera on computers with 128 MB of memory because of it.

Not sure as I don't have a printer now, but that is similar to one of my few complaints about Opera - PDF's didn't print out right from Opera (9.26-era) - they required downloading and opening from Acrobat itself first. But overall I've been quite satisfied with Opera. Stability seems quite good in my experience as well, and the few times 9.2x did have problems it always remembered the pages that had been up. And through the 9.xx iterations small problems have been being ironed out, so it looks like it'll be at worst two steps forward and one back.

 

always liked opera for my fav browser...still using V 9.0.0...fast and easy to tweak to suit my needs

 

I have set the programs back to opera as default and it worked as it did before, thanks for the tip! +rep

tofu

 

I found the trigger for this glitch.

Visit web site that employs cookies. Set site preferences using right-click menu on web page.

Having new cookies set to delete on exit, both in preferences and site preferences, will not delete the cookies set by the site when site preferences were set - nor will the 'delete private data' routine. Manually deleting them through Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Cookies does appear effective.

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And another huge, huge plus is cleartype. It actually showed up in 9.27 but boy what a difference.

 

whoa, you're still on version 9.0?? I remember using Opera 9.2 even and encountering so much bugs with it. Opera 9.5 is such a huge improvement over v. 9.2, talk less of v. 9.0!! U sure you don't wanna upgrade?