Opera 9.0 Tech Preview 2 released

[Malak]

Rise, I wouldn't be surprised if the EA game screwed it up somehow. EA's memory management is probably their biggest flaw in games.

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: Malak
Rise, I wouldn't be surprised if the EA game screwed it up somehow. EA's memory management is probably their biggest flaw in games.

yeah, ea sports games are ridiculous. for all the money they make off these title you'd think they could deliver a better product.

i rolled it back to 8.51 or the last official this morning so i guess i'll stick with this for now. i just get a lot of random crashing with this version so i thought i'd try this version. never thought transitioning from ie would be a pita

i like opera alot though. just wish i wouldn't get random "needs to close" messages.

 

[xtknight]

Yeah, CPU does spike with Opera sometimes (lots of tabs, though I wish it would disable inactive tabs' threads' CPU usage). Copying text from certain websites is also frustrating (horrible spacing). I have no doubt both of these problems will be fixed sooner or later. Other than those this is by far the best browser I've ever used.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: Howard
Middle-click... shift-click does work (didn't know that) but I'd still like the menu to stay open so I can open multiple tabs sequentially. When I shift-click the menu closes and the focus goes to the new page.

Create sessions. I don't use them too often, and last time I checked it opened an entirely new browser window with all the tabs you had saved, not sure if you can change that to work in the same window. Just an idea you can try out.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy

Originally posted by: xtknight
Get Proxomitron. You'll like it even more than FireFox's AdBlock (I did at least).

Seconded

Nice to see this finally catching on more.

Have only been suggesting it for years (am certain there are older posts than this one, but the lovely search engine here is less than optimal).

For those not using/wanting/able to implement a more robust firewall, Proxomitron is an excellent solution.

 

[MikeMike]

crashes every time i try to run it.

uninstalled the old version and all, still crashed

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
ctrl-enter? About damn time. Even though it automatically added it anyway.

You had to go into options to set it to have it "automatically" add in the .com.. otherwise it would just do a search and go to the best results which takes time. Either way, it's all good now.

With this Preview 2 though, anyone else get weird table rendering ? Sometimes it's right and sometimes it just splits it 50% width of the page no matter what.

 

[mb]

Three things:
1) Is there anyway that I can scroll through tabs with the scroll wheel on my mouse, like in FF?
2) I know I can click the red X to close a tab, but can I make it somehow so I can close a tab on double click?
3) Is there anything for Opera like Super Drag and Go?

 

[Fish11]

1) Is there anyway that I can scroll through tabs with the scroll wheel on my mouse, like in FF?

Right Click-Hold on a tab and scroll.

3) Is there anything for Opera like Super Drag and Go?

I don't use anything like that so am not sure but this site has a ton of info. http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera

I like the Powerbuttons. The Kill switch is nice.

 

[mb]

>>Right Click-Hold on a tab and scroll.

No no no, thanks for the reply but that's not what I want to do, in fact, I find that method annoying.
In Firefox, if you place your mouse over any where on the tab bar and scroll with your mouse, it will scroll through the tabs - no right clicking required.


>>http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera

Lots of info, doesn't look like it has anything I am searching for. I really like many of the features Opera offers, but for those 3 that missing features will always stop me from using it.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
ctrl-enter? About damn time. Even though it automatically added it anyway.

You had to go into options to set it to have it "automatically" add in the .com.. otherwise it would just do a search and go to the best results which takes time.

You've never need to set it in the options. I have never touched the options, it has always automatically put it all there.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Malak

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
ctrl-enter? About damn time. Even though it automatically added it anyway.

You had to go into options to set it to have it "automatically" add in the .com.. otherwise it would just do a search and go to the best results which takes time.

You've never need to set it in the options. I have never touched the options, it has always automatically put it all there.

are you talking about Preview 2 ? I was talking about Preview 1 and prior. I asked people on the Opera forums and they told me it needed to be set in a specific place in options... otherwise it would do a search and EVENTUALLY bring you there (sometimes incorrectly of course - just like Firefox if you don't use ctrl-enter). I looked in options and there it was. It wasn't on by default for me.

 

[Turkish]

opera kicks ass, been using it for 2 months now