Nashy Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.AlleymaN Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SacrificialSoldier Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 ImageCount https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3959 Page Load https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3371 I am a FF fanboy as are many people so I would say go FF but I have tried opera and did not like it. S2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashy Posted April 6, 2007 Author Share Posted April 6, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SacrificialSoldier Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Glad things worked out and you stuck with FF (fanboy here!) S2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.AlleymaN Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Understandable decision. I'd have a hard time giving up opera too. I'm just too comfortable with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncidentFlux Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashy Posted April 7, 2007 Author Share Posted April 7, 2007 ^ Thanks. Its just going to be easier to stay with FF. Its just an easier browser.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Gosselin Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 I had too many issues with it Really strange, I don't have any problem with Opera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantawi Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 You can switch from IE to Opera, but from Firefox? nah :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayzee Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinkybill Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duntkno Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk8er_boi6000 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duntkno Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 any way to have opera look exactly like firefox, or very close to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.AlleymaN Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 duntkno, have a look here: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/operaStuff/otherBrowsers.html Also check this thread for other useful Opera stuff: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=548527 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncidentFlux Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 (edited) 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 Edited April 10, 2007 by RADicaLMMS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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