Opera Browser Now Free

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:16 pm

#91 (what you would get if you spliced DNA from Bert and Ernie)

Leebo33 · Post by **Leebo33** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:16 pm

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:19 pm

devilsjaw · Post by **devilsjaw** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:23 pm

Leebo33 · Post by **Leebo33** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:26 pm

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:26 pm

87...

I do not care if the spelling is off, I worked hard for this.

Meredith Baxter Birney

PS Bernard will be acceptable also.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:28 pm

86 for the first Bernard

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:31 pm

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bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:34 pm

83 George Bernard Shaw

Leebo33 · Post by **Leebo33** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:34 pm

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:42 pm

81 Crystal Bernard

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:44 pm

80. My personal favorite:

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:45 pm

bdoughty wrote:81 Crystal Bernard

Man, I've always had a thing for her. What a hottie.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:46 pm

79.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:59 pm

Well, besides the fact that this turned into the Bernie picture gallery...i've downloaded the newest version of Opera and it's freakin' brilliant. Little things make this the best damn browser out now. Having used IE7 and the new Firefox 2.0 for the last few weeks, I was skeptical, but it really is the best browser out now. Try it out if you guys haven't yet...you can always disable or uninstall it if you don't like it. I trust you will. The best thing is you don't need to install and manage all of these add-ons like you do in firefox. Everything is included already. They did a VERY good job with this browser.

GameSeven · Post by **GameSeven** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:33 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:...i've downloaded the newest version of Opera and it's freakin' brilliant. [snip] They did a VERY good job with this browser.

After DB's praise, I've given Opera a try and my impressions are pretty favorable. I keep finding little details that are pretty well thought out and it's FAST. Immediate pros for me include:

- Tabbed browsing with page previews on mouse hover.
- prefixed search engine calls (i.e. you can search google, amazon or pricerunner by prefixing your location bar entry with 'g', 'z' or 'c' respectively) There are about 16-20 engines and you can add more if you know the search engine string. Tested this by adding IMDB to 'i'.
- Mouse gestures for rapid operations like closing tabs, refreshing tabs, forward and backword. It even has some nifty anticipitory "next" gestures which allow you to page through forums and other indexed lists once it can identify a pattern in your past few clicks.
- Highlighted serach within a page that you can kick off with the '.' key
- reasonably well-integrated torrent and newsfeed support

I could go on, but suffice it to say I agree with DB that anyone the least bit intrigued should give this browser a try.

One of the only things I liked about FF that I can't find in Opera is FF's ability to sort URL history to allow specific URLs under the same host to rise to the top based upon frequency.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:38 pm

I love how you can click on the address bar to bring up other search engines and your bookmarks, home page and your top 10 list. The browser is freakin' brilliant.

The only downside is that I have found a few sites that it doesn't support, but they are ones that I rarely visit, so no big deal.

Spooky · Post by **Spooky** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:45 pm

Looks like there is a MAC version. You think it is the same updated browser as the one for Windows? Problem is that I can't seem to get to the download page. It just hangs every time I click download!?!?!

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:59 pm

I'm giving the new Opera a whirl.

I like it, although I miss my Firefox extensions and the "pushbutton" bookmark bar. The integrated RSS reader -- a big deal for me -- isn't as good as the Sage extension RSS reader for Firefox.

The two things I REALLY like about Opera are the speed and the low memory usage. Firefox 2.0 still is a memory pig and either crashes or slows your system after a while due to memory leaks.

I'll keep sampling Opera, as it has its plus points along with the minuses. Thanks for the tip.

Take care,
PK

GameSeven · Post by **GameSeven** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:53 pm

In conjunction with my earlier post in this thread, one thing I really like in Opera is the ability to set up custom search engines by right clicking in the search box of a particular engine and applying a prefix. I've quickly set up prefixes for gametrailers, ebgames, IMDB, boardgamegeek and others.

It lets you quickly enter a search in the address bar (i.e. ctrl-L "eb gears of war" or ctrl-L "i rocky balboa") and it adds each engine thus added to a "Search with..." context menu that you can access by double clicking terms or right clicking selections on your page.

Very flexible.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:01 pm

G7:

True on the search. But Firefox allows you to add search engines for various sites right to their search bar, and you can use a more user-friendly pulldown tab to access that search engine. I have search engines for a sh*tload of sites built into that field, and I find mouse-based gestures like that more friendly to use than typing code letters before the search term.

In general, Opera is nice. But I uninstalled it because it didn't differentiate itself or prove itself superior enough to Firefox for me to switch.

When I first tried Firefox as an IE user, it took about three minutes for me to figure out that Firefox was faster, more secure and WAY more flexible than IE. Switching was a no-brainer.

Opera has a few things that I like better than Firefox. But there also are some things on Firefox, such as Extensions and the search fields, that I like much better than Opera. Plus I have such familiarity and comfort with Firefox, so I'm sticking with it.

Take care,
PK