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Opera 11 goes final

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Re: Opera 11 goes final

#11

Post by pierrefar »

johkra wrote: post #9
pierrefar wrote: post #7

Be careful: I just installed it and it decided it will be my default browser and take over the file associations (.htm, .html, .xhtml) and protocol associations from Firefox. I thought we left this kind of crappy warfare in the late 90s.

In the first screen you have to click on "Options" to change this. I like the streamlined installation process, but the options are indeed very easy to overlook.

Thanks. I clearly missed that.

The after-the-fact way is to use the Windows defaults tool, a Good Thing to emerge from the defaults wars.

Re: Opera 11 goes final

#12

Post by iwwr »

First bug so far: opening yahoo mail hyperlinks stalls forever in the current tab. It is fixed by opening all links in new tabs.

Anyway, the built-in adblock is top-notch.

Re: Opera 11 goes final

#13

Post by siddhant »

budman wrote: post #4

The Best. Been a big fan of Opera browser for a long time now. There was a minor speed bump of bugs when 10.x first came out but starting at 10.10 it has been top notch. Once you learn all of Opera's nuances using any other browser feels outdated and not as well thought out for a user. Speed is right there with Chrome, built in mail/rss and now with the 11.x extensions there is no more excuses to try it. The little b…

> Once you learn all of Opera's nuances using any other browser feels outdated and not as well thought out for a user

From what I feel, the average user doesn't spend much time learning a software's nuances. They just want to use the first thing that works in the first go.

Re: Opera 11 goes final

#14

Post by randlet »

StavrosK wrote: post #5
budman wrote: post #4

The Best. Been a big fan of Opera browser for a long time now. There was a minor speed bump of bugs when 10.x first came out but starting at 10.10 it has been top notch. Once you learn all of Opera's nuances using any other browser feels outdated and not as well thought out for a user. Speed is right there with Chrome, built in mail/rss and now with the 11.x extensions there is no more excuses to try it. The little b…

The only feature that was missing was autocomplete for textboxes, and now I found an extension to do it. Opera is finally complete!

The killer feature that kept me using Chrome before was the automatic page translations. There's a nice extension to do that now in Opera too and I am now very very happy with Opera.

Re: Opera 11 goes final

#15

Post by benologist »

I switched to Chrome a couple weeks ago, I really love Opera and have used it for years, but it reached the point where it would take a full minute or two just to end the process after I closed the browser and 30+ seconds just to open it the first time. Drove me nuts, only happens on my desktop at least.

Re: Opera 11 goes final

#17

Post by Ennis »

budman wrote: post #4

The Best. Been a big fan of Opera browser for a long time now. There was a minor speed bump of bugs when 10.x first came out but starting at 10.10 it has been top notch. Once you learn all of Opera's nuances using any other browser feels outdated and not as well thought out for a user. Speed is right there with Chrome, built in mail/rss and now with the 11.x extensions there is no more excuses to try it. The little b…

"built in mail/rss"

I was an Opera evangelist for many years but all the extra bundled apps I never use finally pushed me to chrome.

Re: Opera 11 goes final

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Post by revorad »

I want to try and love Opera, but every time I try it out something goes wrong. Now, installing on Ubuntu I get:

"Error: Breaks exisiting package 'opera-static' conflict: opera ( )"

Re: Opera 11 goes final

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Post by gizmomagico »

Ennis wrote: post #17
budman wrote: post #4

The Best. Been a big fan of Opera browser for a long time now. There was a minor speed bump of bugs when 10.x first came out but starting at 10.10 it has been top notch. Once you learn all of Opera's nuances using any other browser feels outdated and not as well thought out for a user. Speed is right there with Chrome, built in mail/rss and now with the 11.x extensions there is no more excuses to try it. The little b…

"built in mail/rss" I was an Opera evangelist for many years but all the extra bundled apps I never use finally pushed me to chrome.

I keep hearing rumours they don't even load if you don't use them..

Re: Opera 11 goes final

#20

Post by jodrellblank »

Install Opera 11, visit intranet page, get prompted for password.

Search NTLM in config, it's got one option which is enabled.

(That Chrome for business blog post yesterday got me to retry Chrome which supports NTLM automatically by default).

Close opera, uninstall. Uninstall prompts that it crashed while editing preferences (it didn't) and offers to send a crash report.

I wonder if I could get a job as a software tester? I always hit bizarro behaviour just trying to use software normally.

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