Comments on: opera 8.0 review http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/28/opera-80-review/ A computer programmer's commentary on news, Linux, programming, music, web design, trivia, humor, usability and whatever else strikes his fancy at the time. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:10:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: dan http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/28/opera-80-review/comment-page-1/#comment-6486 dan Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:01:49 +0000 /?p=1159#comment-6486 Teja: Very true. The authors of the extensions don't test their extensions with all the other ones so there's a chance that they won't play nicely, whereas Opera's features are all tested together. Then again, you can do things with Firefox that Opera hasn't thought of yet. Cameron: I don't know of a way, and a quick Google search didn't turn anything up, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a way to change them. Teja: Very true. The authors of the extensions don’t test their extensions with all the other ones so there’s a chance that they won’t play nicely, whereas Opera’s features are all tested together. Then again, you can do things with Firefox that Opera hasn’t thought of yet.

Cameron: I don’t know of a way, and a quick Google search didn’t turn anything up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a way to change them.

]]> By: Cameron http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/28/opera-80-review/comment-page-1/#comment-6485 Cameron Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:47:35 +0000 /?p=1159#comment-6485 So one thing that has always bugged me about Opera is the hot key combination for various tasks. I'm used to hitting ^l to put in a new URL, and ^t to open a new tab. This is a small thing, but it drives me crazy. Does Opera have a way to assign certain hotkey combinations to certain tasks? So one thing that has always bugged me about Opera is the hot key combination for various tasks. I’m used to hitting ^l to put in a new URL, and ^t to open a new tab. This is a small thing, but it drives me crazy. Does Opera have a way to assign certain hotkey combinations to certain tasks?

]]> By: Teja http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/28/opera-80-review/comment-page-1/#comment-6484 Teja Wed, 29 Jun 2005 01:12:56 +0000 /?p=1159#comment-6484 Yes it does mean more functionality, but I find that sometimes that a few of the extensions tend to bloat up Firefox (especially when trying to make Firefox functional like Opera). At the same time, it paves the way for developers to create more innovative ideas with Firefox that no other browser has currently. Yes it does mean more functionality, but I find that sometimes that a few of the extensions tend to bloat up Firefox (especially when trying to make Firefox functional like Opera). At the same time, it paves the way for developers to create more innovative ideas with Firefox that no other browser has currently.

]]> By: Konstantinos http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/28/opera-80-review/comment-page-1/#comment-6479 Konstantinos Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:33:32 +0000 /?p=1159#comment-6479 Nice short review, Dan. Opera's small filesize in comparison to Firefox always surprised me as well. Nice short review, Dan.

Opera’s small filesize in comparison to Firefox always surprised me as well.

]]> By: dan http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/28/opera-80-review/comment-page-1/#comment-6478 dan Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:18:10 +0000 /?p=1159#comment-6478 Teja: I had never seen that site about the positive points about Opera. Thanks for the pointer. Your comment reminded me of another thing I like about Opera - it comes with lots of features instead of forcing you to download extensions. Of course that means that Firefox is more customizable in terms of functionality. Teja: I had never seen that site about the positive points about Opera. Thanks for the pointer. Your comment reminded me of another thing I like about Opera – it comes with lots of features instead of forcing you to download extensions. Of course that means that Firefox is more customizable in terms of functionality.

]]> By: Teja http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/28/opera-80-review/comment-page-1/#comment-6477 Teja Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:10:17 +0000 /?p=1159#comment-6477 Two of those things that you are not keen on are just part of Opera's default interface problem. When opening up Opera for the very first time, I find it that it maybe a bit intimidating to the new user. Hopefully in the future versions of Opera, the team will make it more Firefox like interface wise by default, so it isn't nearly as intimidating. I too use Opera at around 80 percent of the time, the rest is with Firefox, for sites like <a href="http://www.newsgator.com">NewsGator</a> that won't work properly in Opera (actually, I think Newsgator is one of the only reasons I open up Firefox). Naturally, I point users to <a href="http://nontroppo.org/wiki/WhyOpera">this page</a> which lists all the positive points of Opera. One key feature that I love Opera is the ability to move tabs around (yea there is an extension for Firefox but I didn't bother installing it), I would think that the Moz team is up on this in 1.1 (I haven't heard much of this from the testers in deer park releases though). Two of those things that you are not keen on are just part of Opera’s default interface problem. When opening up Opera for the very first time, I find it that it maybe a bit intimidating to the new user. Hopefully in the future versions of Opera, the team will make it more Firefox like interface wise by default, so it isn’t nearly as intimidating. I too use Opera at around 80 percent of the time, the rest is with Firefox, for sites like NewsGator that won’t work properly in Opera (actually, I think Newsgator is one of the only reasons I open up Firefox).

Naturally, I point users to this page which lists all the positive points of Opera. One key feature that I love Opera is the ability to move tabs around (yea there is an extension for Firefox but I didn’t bother installing it), I would think that the Moz team is up on this in 1.1 (I haven’t heard much of this from the testers in deer park releases though).

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