Opera Widgets

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Opera Widgets  

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  1. 1. Do you use Opera's Widget feature?

    • Yes
      36
    • No
      118

  2. 2. Do you like the concept of Opera's Widget feature?

    • Yes (It's a good feature)
      30
    • Neutral (I don't mind)
      54
    • No (This feature is useless to me)
      70

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Steve Gosselin

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I think the Opera widget thing is just dumb and pointless, Opera rocks but Opera widgets..ummm no.

Personally, Many widgets/tools that I find indispensable. Usable widgets for the Web creation. Perfect tools for all webmasters/webdesigners. :yes:

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Steve Gosselin

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Bad idea. I doubt many people would want widgets that works only when a browser is loaded.

I doubt many people would want widgets that works always on top their desktop for this kind of widgets: Password Generator, Whois Widget, IP Address,... :rofl:

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Steve Gosselin

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I have always wondered, how to disable the auto opening of torrent file by opera? I want download using utorrent, but I have to "Save Target As" everytime I want to download a torrent file...

Go here, #2 --> Opera 9 FAQ. :)

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Quillz

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thanks for telling me that dude, now i dont have to use firefox to use the videodownloader extention.

I was trying to find a way to download videos from YouTube, when I found this on Google. Glad to hear it's useful for you, too.

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vinczej

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These widgets always seemed useless to me. Most of them are on your desktop and they aren't even related to the browser, but yet you need opera to be opened to use them, even if you aren't even wanting a web brwoser open. The idea is really pointless. Especially when you can get widget programs such as yahoo widgets, or stardocks stuff, without the need of a browser to be attached to it.

Those widgets are most useful by Opera, where you need the Internet-connection at least. (E.g. Weather, Translation, Torrent Search for me). But not connection related widgets can be useful or amusing, too. I use ?VirtuaWin for multidesktop, so I can use the widgets (visually) separated from Opera (if I need).

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