Opera 9.0 Beta 1

[Roger Johansson]

I hadn't installed Preview 8371 my latest version was 8367 and Beta 1
installed over the top without any problems, so far. ;-)

The most likely reason is that I got the version which uses the new MSI
installer which people have problems with, I should have chosen the old
Opera installer instead.

But it was no catastrophy. I have another Opera installation with
version 8.54 which I am very careful with. This happened to my beta
installation which I use to look at newer versions.

It saved all my Bookmarks, Wand preferences for passwords (which in
most cases is don't ask). All my cookies settings for various sites I
visit also seem to have been saved.

The Opera installer has always behave very well before, and I usually
copy the whole Opera folder as a backup before installing a new version
on top of it.

 

[Ian Anderson]

Ian Anderson wrote:

I have never seen so many complaints about the Opera installation routine
before.


The most likely reason is that I got the version which uses the new MSI
installer which people have problems with, I should have chosen the old
Opera installer instead.

From my reading of the Opera newsgroups, so far, the MSI installer
seems to be attracting most of the complaints. I didn't notice the
link to the old installer on the Australian download page and used the
MSI installer.

But it was no catastrophy. I have another Opera installation with
version 8.54 which I am very careful with. This happened to my beta
installation which I use to look at newer versions.

That's good, I also have Opera version 8.54 undisturbed since I
installed her.

When installing a Preview or Beta version at one time I would create a
new "Opera" folder and sub folder "Profile" and copy my current
"opera6.adr" file (containing bookmarks) to "Profile" which at least
retained my bookmarks. But since the latest run of 9 Preview versions
including Beta 1 I have installed straight over the top of the
previous without any obvious problems.

 

[jimpgh2002]

Le 21/04/2006 05:37:59, jimpgh2002 a écrit :


can you customize keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, hide menu bar,
localise button bar on left part of the windows, or bookmark panel at the
left, adjust size of GUI icons, set preferences per site, change
user-agent, create personnalised buttons to auto-scroll page, to launch
translator/tinyurl on a page or external application and send selection or
active url to it ?

I have no idea, but since those things you mentioned aren't
things I'm interested in, I haven't tried to find out.

in what firefox is more configurable ? with many extensions to have Opera
features ?

I dunno, maybe Opera has features I haven't discovered yet.
But with FF, I use extensions that do the following:

- Block Ads
- Permanently remove certain objects from sites I frequent
- Allow for extensive control over tabs
- incorporate "bug me not" & torrent support
- maintain cookies
- Block flash (Click to play)
- image zoom
- incorporate "tiny url"
- tweak settings
- make every word on a website an interface
- by that I mean;
- if it's an address, link to google/yahoo maps
- look up the words definition
- translate foreign words
- and much more

There's more, but that's a start. Let me know how to do all that in
Opera.

 

[rm]

Le 22/04/2006 20:35:13, jimpgh2002 a écrit :

I have no idea, but since those things you mentioned aren't
things I'm interested in, I haven't tried to find out.

it's, IMHO, easiest than finding extension/installing/updating extensions
in firefox ;-)

I dunno, maybe Opera has features I haven't discovered yet.
But with FF, I use extensions that do the following:

- Block Ads

existing since v6, 7 and 8.x (url filter file)
see http://www.opera.com/support/mastering/kiosk/#url-filter

integrated in v9.0 (right clic a page > block content...)

- Permanently remove certain objects from sites I frequent

F12 to disable globaly images, animations, java, javascript sound
or site specific preferences feature in v9

- Allow for extensive control over tabs

natively enabled

- incorporate "bug me not" & torrent support

torrent support in v8.10tp2 and v9

- maintain cookies

enabled, site specific setting if needed.

- Block flash (Click to play)

pretty user javascript :
http://userjs.org/scripts/general/enhancements/hide-objects

- image zoom

natively enable (zoom text+image) or, if needed, userjs:
http://userjs.org/scripts/browser/enhancements/autosizer

- incorporate "tiny url"

see tinyurl button (just clic & drag&drop)
-> http://webtoman.com/opera/custom/custom_buttons.php

- tweak settings

about:config
http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/
http://www.opera.com/docs/switches/
http://www.opera.com/support/mastering/sysadmin/
http://www.opera.com/docs/operafiles/
many resources at http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera

- make every word on a website an interface
- by that I mean;
- if it's an address, link to google/yahoo maps
- look up the words definition
- translate foreign words
- and much more

integrated in v8 and v9 and easily customizable

There's more, but that's a start. Let me know how to do all that in
Opera.

all actions known by Opera + javascript if needed are available for
buttons, menu items, keybord shortcuts.
userjs are natively supported.

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