Opera 5.0

[Sunner]

I love it!
I've allways been a Netscape guy, used IE 5.0 for a while, absolutely HATED it, but Opera... I love it

Incredibly fast, small, low mem usage, could it get any better?

As for not opening new items in the taskbar, I actually like this, since I tend to browse lots and lots of pages at once, which clutters the taskbar pretty quickly.
But thats just personal preference

 

[Sunner]

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[DABANSHEE]

I like the way you can setup Opera with multiple 'home' pages, so it makes it real easy checking the same half dozen or whatever sites every day like this .

Plus its very tweakable & its light on memory. I also like the + & - keyboard shortcuts for zooming in & out.

Even though I've got the Macromedia & Quicktime plugins installed, I still prefer to use IE5.X for general browsing.

I have noticed when lots of opera windows are open that you'd get all these 'waiting for new connections' dialogue boxes & if you tweaked the preferances to get more concurrent connections then you get a winsock overload dialogue box instead. Which would also occure in IE5 if Opera was open & was having that problem. But this problem seems 95% solved with Opera 5.

"...Finally, anyone have a suggestion about importing bookmarks/favorites into Opera?"

Appopin, click your hotlist button, now go down & right click whatever folder you want your favorites menu in (or if you want them menued from the beginning, right click the 'bookmarks' folder). Then in the contextual folder that pops up, move the curser down to 'file' then another contextual menu will pop up & you then click the 'insert internet explorer favorites here' text.

I useally creat a folder called 'Opera default Bookmarks' & put all the Opera default bookmarks into that folder & insert my IE favorites as my bookmarks.

I personally think they should have 3 seperate drop down menus - 'Bookmarks', 'NS Bookmarks' & 'Favorites', where 'Favorites' actually uses the 'C:\WINDOWS\Favorites' folder. So if you are Browsing Opera & you add a URL to the 'Favorites' menu, it will be in your 'Favorites' menu next time you open IE.

 

[wjones]

I just installed it. This is even better than Opera 4.02!!! Try it, it is faster than both IE and NS.

 

[wjones]

I found this: BookmarkPriest

- Fast Bookmark Converter from and to IE, Netscape and Opera which preserves the original structure of the bookmark source. (file size: only 154 Kb).

The best part: IT IS FREE and you don't need to install it. (just run the program)

I converted my NS bookmark to Opera. It converted my NS bookmark to a file at a temp folder. You have to cut-and-paste the file to Opera folder and change the file name from output.adr to Opera5.adr

Note: You MUST close your Opera broswer before you do this.

 

[JasonG]

Opera is great!

I can't believe how fast pages load compared to IE and Netscape. It seemed about 2-3 times faster with my cable modem.

I'm converted!

You can also use Webwasher (webwasher.com) to get rid of the ad as well.

It has taken me some time to get used to the difference but I think I will grow to like it even more.

Try hitting F11. It puts your window at full screen so you don't see any tool bars. It's very cool.

Jason

 

[DABANSHEE]

But what's the point of getting rid of the add if you can't utilise the space it takes up with something else. For example moving the 'status bar' in its place so the 'window bar' can be higher up, giving you more free space, like this screen shot.

The bandwidth saving would be marginal at most, as most of the adds would be cached.

 

[MisterM]

Damn, now even I have to give Opera a try...seems pretty nice so far, but it doesn't display the forum quite right. (Some of the Username/Icons have got lot's of free space around them, screws the formatting up...)

edit: wait, now it seems to display the forums just fine...maybe it's just a matter of beeing logged in?