Opera 9 Web Browser Unleashed

[ilw]

ok, i finally tried this browser out. lol, first time. never saw a need. i like it better than ie, but ff is still king. well, so far. still checking this thing out. can u install like adblockers and stuff inside opera? don't really care for the widgets crap. all they are are external progs running outside of browser, no? don't like that.

yes widgets are crap

edit: w0w, all these ads i've never seen be4. opera wouldn't be all that bad if it had a built in ad blocker! c'mon. the bittorrent dl's are pretty gay. right clicking does the trick, but a tab cums up. looking for ways to disable that.

it has built in pop up blocker its in tools -> options and you can make it site specific, by right clicking on a page and going to site preferences
it also has site specific ad blocking (right click then block content)
u can also block urls (ie so no pics from ad servers get loaded) but i think that requires editing text files and doesn't seem any better than editing your host file last time i checked.

also, when i add shortcut bookmarks to my personal bar some of them, not all, are also added to the bottom of the bookmarks in the bookmarks tab at the top of the browser. why do some go there and others don't? how can u make it so all bookmarks don't do this?

don't really understand, when you create a bookmark click the details button and you get some options, does this help? If you add a bookmark in the bookmarks folder then it'll appear in the top level bookmark list, if you want it somewhere else you need to put it in a folder. (bookmarks -> manage bookmarks might help)

i'm hearing this all over the place... how is opera faster? i honestly don't see a speed difference. all web pages? certain? wtf?

like zapjb said this is a bit of an old comment, you won't really see it now that dialup is a thing of the past, but on dialup opera shows pages a lot faster than ie and faster than firefox although firefox can be tweaked so that it is almost as fast. Actually i just checked nad the difference between opera and ie is still pretty obvious

Opera is also faster to start than ie & firefox, but again thats no longer the big thing it once was (at one stage firefox took ages to load)


As i see it, firefox and opera are fairly evenly matched

opera: uses less resources, imo nicer look once skinned, quicker load, more features built in and they are better coded (e.g. mouse gestures), decent mail client

firefox: more programmers test that their website looks ok with firefox/gecko, more customisable through extensions, better initial layout (out of the box)

Opera is my preferred browser although i have ping ponged between firefox and opera over the years. Opera takes some getting used to and you need to come up with a layout & skin that you like, because the default is retarded imo (personally i scrap all but 3 of the buttons and just have the main, personal and tab toolbars (the address field can be added to the main bar) and the metal blue skin and i hide the panels to the left).

[mr. nails]

it has built in pop up blocker its in tools -> options and you can make it site specific, by right clicking on a page and going to site preferences
it also has site specific ad blocking (right click then block content)
u can also block urls (ie so no pics from ad servers get loaded) but i think that requires editing text files and doesn't seem any better than editing your host file last time i checked.

um, what did u say? i don't need it to block pop ups. it does that nicely. i need it to block ads. don't see that anywhere in the options. also, went to opera home, community, and support pages to find some extensions, or plug-ins of sort for ad blockers and found nothing. i googled for it and found something, but i think it mite be for older versions of opera. idk. doesn't really bother me to much. as imma take this opera off and try the new beta then prob be done with it. not really working out for me the way i like, but if i can fix some of these problems i mite just leave it on my pc to play around with.

when you create a bookmark click the details button and you get some options, does this help? If you add a bookmark in the bookmarks folder then it'll appear in the top level bookmark list, if you want it somewhere else you need to put it in a folder. (bookmarks -> manage bookmarks might help)

i know how to create bookmarks. what i'm talking about is when i add a bookmark to my personnal bar it also ads the same bookmark in my bookmarks tab (at the top of browser) for some stupid reason. i don't need it to do this, but thank u for discussing and trying to help me out in some of these matters.

[ilw]

um, what did u say? i don't need it to block pop ups. it does that nicely. i need it to block ads. don't see that anywhere in the options.

open up the website which has the adverts you want to block, right click somewhere on the page (in a blank space rather than on a picture or form) and select 'block content' the page will mostly blank out except for adverts which you then click to block them. then either click 'done' in hte top corner or right click and click on 'block content' again.

The ad blocking in firefox is (I would guess!!) done by blocking a bunch of servers which are responsible for most ads. You can easily achieve the same effect for all browsers by editing your hosts file
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/index.php