Dang Opera is fast!

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Awesome browser - been using it for years. Mouse gestures, speed-dial, saving and loading sets of webpages and the image display options are my favourite features. Never used it for torrents, email or rss though
 
Used it for a year or so before I switched to Firefox. As a basic browser it's probably better than Firefox - faster and a greater range of built-in features. But Fx has a range of add-ons that I just can't live without - Firebug, DownThemAll, FlashGot, ABP... so for now I'm sticking with Firefox.
 
Biscuiteer said:
Never used it for torrents, email or rss though
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I've used it for all three. Torrents is OK but seems too much like a download interface really. Email was OK for one account but more than one and it didn't seem to scale well. Haven't really used RSS at all with Opera, but then I've rarely used RSS at all. :o
 
bonzo said:
Opera is damn slow loading Ebay pages. Worse than FF by a mile
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You can't properly set up a selling page in Opera, even with trying various other modes, I have to open and log in using I.E.7. Facebook has issues with Opera after a while, it's really quite sluggish with it.

Ratbag said:
In fact, I wish the dev team would add an option to leave out the email and bitorrent elements on installation as I don't need them either.
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Yeap, would be a good idea.
 
Just downloaded opera today to see what its like! I've not tried it for a few years!

Its nice. Does it have an ad block thing? =)
 
when ff3 came out I went to opera after using ie7 (with plugins) for a while (didn't like v3 to start with) but have now gone back to firefox (v3) after opera decided to screw up for no apparent reason.

In my opinion with the right combination of addons (opera is severly lacking here - I don't want a game in my web browser!) firefox is much much faster than opera for me personally.
 
i used to use opera, but then everynow and again i had to switch to firefox, so i'm now using firefox with all the extensions that i like from opera (all-in-one sidebar, all-in-one gestures, and adblock).

Biggest reason for moving? couldn't find out how to download a torrent file in opera without it opening it's own bittorrent client (i download stuff on another computer). anyone have any ideas?
 
rudeboymcc said:
i used to use opera, but then everynow and again i had to switch to firefox, so i'm now using firefox with all the extensions that i like from opera (all-in-one sidebar, all-in-one gestures, and adblock).

Biggest reason for moving? couldn't find out how to download a torrent file in opera without it opening it's own bittorrent client (i download stuff on another computer). anyone have any ideas?
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Funny really since that was mentioned ages ago and is really easy if you'd just asked someone :p :D

MarcLister said:
If I were you, I'd type 'Opera:config' into the address bar and click on the BitTorrent link and UNCHECK the Enable box for BitTorrent. Opera's torrent feature is quite poor compared to the rest of Opera and you might as well carry on using uTorrent or whatever you use.
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well that's another reason i don't like opera then, I can't work it out for myself. for me to find opera:config, i'd have to have searched online, which is ridiculous. Why can't opera:config be part of their settings menu?
 
rudeboymcc said:
well that's another reason i don't like opera then, I can't work it out for myself. for me to find opera:config, i'd have to have searched online, which is ridiculous. Why can't opera:config be part of their settings menu?
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Well tbh its just easier to say go there, but if you want to be awkward... Go to Tools>Preferences>Downloads then untick "hide file types opened with opera" find the file extension torrent (funny enough) highlight click edit and tell it whatever you want to do, pass it straight to a program or just save to disk or ask every time whatever. I would have told you that way but i think you can see from me a bit more long winded ;) Offers more customization of course though ;).


Don't go slating a program just because you have problems, i haven't checked myself because personally i find it all rather easy and obvious but i'm sure thats all in the help files if need be ;).
 
rudeboymcc said:
well that's another reason i don't like opera then, I can't work it out for myself. for me to find opera:config, i'd have to have searched online, which is ridiculous. Why can't opera:config be part of their settings menu?
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Firefox has the same thing, apart from it's about:config. Can change lots of things in there that you can't see otherwise.
 
It's debatable whether it's not as fast as Chrome... try it on a low spec system and Chrome will be using all available RAM and 100% of CPU time! :P
 
I've been using Opera for a couple of weeks now having got fed up with IE7 crashing randomly and firefox not remembering logins to some interent forums. I have to say, it's not a bad browser and although I'd say it is no faster than firefox, it is definately fast enough.
 
Ratbag said:
I've used Opera in conjunction with the mighty Admuncher for years and it beats FF with Adblock hands down. I haven't really customized it apart from removing a few buttons here and there and trying a few skins. I like to keep things minimal, I can live without "extensions". In fact, I wish the dev team would add an option to leave out the email and bitorrent elements on installation as I don't need them either.
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Nice, adblock is the main reason I've stuck to FF (along with noscript).

I may give opera another go - I remember when you had to pay for it!
 
I used to swear by opera. I use chrome now, I find its more lightweight....


Ive just downloaded opera though!
Opera Mobile is awesome
 
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