Want to switch to Opera


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Alrighty. So I've been using Opera for about a week, and I really really like the broswer itself. Its nice a quick, it looks nice, and well yeah, I just like it.

However, I'm about to give up unless some of my FF things can be done in Opera.

- Tabs - When closing a tab, it goes to the next one to the left of it, rather than the last looked at

- RSS Scroller down the bottom right of the screen, with a popup when new stories added

- Spell Check that I can get to work easily

- Decent ab blocker - Right Click on ads. I had to manually add Google ads, then go back in to whitelist some sites. ABP is far better.

Or would you recommend I just stick with FF, or is there hope.

I like the status information given in Opera, image count, time to load etc. Can that be done in FF?

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Tabs: I think you already got the answer.

RSS: There's no scroller but Opera does alert you with a popup when new stories are added. If not check, options>advanced>notification>check "show notification for new messages"

Spell check: possible through UserJS. Check here. Place the 'js' file in a folder of choice and point to tht folder in "options>advanced>content>Javascript options>User javascript files"

Ad block: Sorry no whitelist in Opera that I know of. Content blocker is all there is.

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Well, I'm going to have to stick with FF.

The readily available add ons, no messing around with UserJS and ability to have a decent adblocker with white list is just too easy. I have however taken away some of the ideas I like about opera, and implemented them into FF with add ons. Which again, just proves the point that FF is just so easy.

I've got an Opera Skin, Extended status bar and setup my tool bars to look like Opera.

This is in no way a post to talk down Opera, its a very nice browser, and nice and quick. I just personally want something I can modify with ease if required. And by ease, I mean, click a link, and its done.

Thanks for the replies guys.

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Alrighty. So I've been using Opera for about a week, and I really really like the broswer itself. Its nice a quick, it looks nice, and well yeah, I just like it.

- Decent ab blocker - Right Click on ads. I had to manually add Google ads, then go back in to whitelist some sites. ABP is far better.

Ad block filters

http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/index.dml/tag/urlfilter.ini

Opera FAQ's, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/opera-faq

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^ Thanks. Its just going to be easier to stay with FF. Its just an easier browser....

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Yeah I tried Opera for a month or so because of having issues with IE7 and I gota say FF and IE are much more managable than opera. I had too many issues with it

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You can switch from IE to Opera, but from Firefox? nah :p

Sure you can, I did that :rolleyes:

Yeah I tried Opera for a month or so because of having issues with IE7 and I gota say FF and IE are much more managable than opera. I had too many issues with it

What issues?

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Hi Nashy,

Well there are many sites you can go to find information such as some

listed here or to the Opera forums where there are many people who

could maybe answer some or all of your concerns as it is a site dealing only

with Opera questions and answers. I used Firefox for a long time then IE7,

but after using Opera 9 I never looked back. The good thing about Opera it

is so easy to customise and if there is something you want say in your right

click menu or add a toolbar button its very simple to do.

By the way Nashy I live on the north side of Brisbane.

cheers

blinky :D

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im facing the same problem. im gettin sick of firefox not being able to render some pages.

Does opera also have the ability of the drag and drop link?

Where you click on a link, and drag it into the tab bar, in order to open it as a separate tab?

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Opera is easy to customise if you know what you are doing. Adblocker Plus works in exactly the same way as Opera's ad blocker, the only difference is that Opera's does not come with a pre-loaded list of URL's

I have a modded urlfilter.inf file that I store and add to and I never have a problem with ads

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Does opera also have the ability of the drag and drop link?

Where you click on a link, and drag it into the tab bar, in order to open it as a separate tab?

Yes, Opera does have the ability to open links in new tabs, when they're?dragged to the tab bar.>

any way to have opera look exactly like firefox, or very close to it?

Firefox skins for Opera:>

http://my.opera.com/community/customize/sk...;search=Firefox

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