Opera 5.01

[Biggs]

How come this browser doesn't load pages "properly" like IE5 ? For example, http://www.sharkyextreme.com to name a few. And I thought I finally found something to replace my "technologically superior" Microsoft product!

 

[themadmonk]

Does it have a flash plugin? I can't seem to see flash enabled sites properly.

 

[AT]

Biggs:

My understanding is that Opera plays strictly by the standards and some sites don't care for those. We can only hope that Opera gains popularity and webmasters start checking their page compatibility.

Regardless of some problems I aint going back to IE let alone Netscape. I just wish they'd release the 5 version to Linux soon.

themadmonk:

Yes, Opera has Flash plug-in. Opera uses the same plug-ins Just copy NPSWF32.dll file to your Opera plug-in directory. For me it is C:\Program Files\Opera\Program\Plugins\ There are detailed instructions for it in Opera's own help file.

 

[resinboy]

trying it out right now

 

[themadmonk]

Thx AT.

 

[NickelTitanium]

What is the best way to remove Internet Explorer if I install the Opera?

Please send me email. Thanks.

 

[tjll11a]

i love opera had no display problems yet. java and flash are installed corectly. To fix flash problem had to goto max and actually download the flash 5 player with shockwave. During install it asks you what browers to install on. Make sure opera is one of them

Thanks
Jason

Hope it gets more popular

 

[Bozo]

To remove IE, go to www.98lite.org

Bozo

 

[tjll11a]

winme might be a problem with 98lite

 

[TatSteeL]

I use Opera too and have the same problem so I stop using it. Netscape for me.

 

[DAM]

opera rocks, and it needs your support, the only way for it to become a standard is to have users pulling for it. and the reason why some pages do not load correctly its cause of lazy webmasters that use IE crap code and they let the browser interpret their code at will.




dam()

 

[earthman]

Good luck getting rid of IE. It's pretty well buried in the OS. Not sure why you'd want to, since it works better and faster than any other browser I've used.
Opera is not all its cracked up to be, it didn't display pages properly for me either, and they were pages I made myself without any "Microsoft Code". It seemed to have trouble with tiling certain kinds of tables. Maybe that is fixed now, I don't know, haven't used if for a while. I did use the beta for BeOS alot, it crashed frequently, but had more capability than the old Netpositive did. Now that a working Mozilla is out for Be though, I'm not sure there is much future for it. Just my 2 cents.

 

[tjll11a]

i have no problems with opera all web sights come out fine only web sight i can't goto is 2wire.com

Thanks
Jason

 

[iceliquid]

I had Opera on my computer and I liked it for the most part but the only thing that made me stick w/ IE is that Opera doesn't have multiple instances independent of one another. They all exist in the same window. I'm a low bauder so I need pages to load while I read another..hee hee.

I also like IE's ability to customize the address and title toolbars. Mine doesn't even have the navigation bar, just the address and text (i.e. File, View) all one one line, which gives me more room to view the pages.

Those are my sticking points but everyone has one don't they?