Anybody using Opera?

[Woofmeister]

After an endlessly unresolved shockwave plugin error with Firefox 2.0, I switched over to Opera. I have to say I'm pretty impressed. It's infinitely customizable and it seems to resolve webpages faster than Firefox or IE.

Anybody else?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

:thumbsup:

- JaAG

 

[Furyline]

 

[Anubis]

ye aive uses it for many many years

 

[jcmuse]

used it for years as well (back when it was nonfree) for both email and browsing. unfortunately, however, i had to switch to Firefox for compatibility reasons.

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: Anubis
ye aive uses it for many many years

Wasn't talk like a pirate day last month?

 

[clamum]

I switched to it from FireFox when it became free awhile back. Never went back to FireFox. The only time I load up IE is when there's issues with video playback (which is rare).

 

[Alone]

Firefox is slowly getting worse in its own respect. I may consider switching to Opera in the near future.

 

[xtknight]

The lack of AdBlock is what really keeps me away from Opera these days. Is there a decent content filter for Opera yet? I know you can block individual URLs, but it's not as good as AdBlock still. AdBlock seems to eliminate ads and preserve the layout almost flawlessly every time.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: xtknight
The lack of AdBlock is what really keeps me away from Opera these days. Is there a decent content filter for Opera yet? I know you can block individual URLs, but it's not as good as AdBlock still. AdBlock seems to eliminate ads and preserve the layout almost flawlessly every time.

The builtin content blocker supports wildcards. You can find precompiled lists online. Those two combined work very well.

I use a program called The Proxomitron thought because it works with FF, IE, Opera, and pretty much everything else. Very useful when testing various browsers.

- Newbie

 

[LiekOMG]

I was decently impressed with Opera, but the quirky way it handles tabs (when you close a tab, it goes back to your previously viewed tab, and not the next one in line, with NO way to change that) keeps me from using it.

 

[sandorski]

It's better than IE for sure, but I prefer Mozilla. Opera does certain things that really irritate me, although there's probably a way for me to change those things, I have better things to do with my time then figure those things out.

 

[x1v]

I had been using Firefox for the past 2 years in Windows XP. Ever since I switched to OS X last month, I have seen performance hits and much slowdown with Firefox and OS X. I have Opera installed, but I gotta say I use Safari more.

 

[xtknight]

I almost forgot about The Proxomitron. I'll try that again. I had used Opera+Prox in the past. I forgot why I stopped using it. I think it was because of layout problems occurring often. Plus proxies can be slow and eat up CPU. I'll just have to see how it works. I even got it (Proxomitron) to work under Wine for Linux but it was sort of slow.

Originally posted by: LiekOMG
I was decently impressed with Opera, but the quirky way it handles tabs (when you close a tab, it goes back to your previously viewed tab, and not the next one in line, with NO way to change that) keeps me from using it.

That's one of the reasons I love it.

 

[rainypickles]

i luv opera

 

[bigben2wardpitt]

Originally posted by: x1v
I had been using Firefox for the past 2 years in Windows XP. Ever since I switched to OS X last month, I have seen performance hits and much slowdown with Firefox and OS X. I have Opera installed, but I gotta say I use Safari more.

yea firefox sucks on macs. USe safari and then add ons from pimpmysafari.com

 

[mulletgut]

I too love Opera, love tthe integrated mouse gestures, love the magic wand, love a widget or too...........love..love.....love
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Wasn't talk like a pirate day last month?[/quote]

No it was the month before........he's warming up for next year.

 

[StrangerGuy]

I made the switch from FF to Opera...Scrolling pages was so much more smoother that I wouldn't want to go back...

 

[potato28]

I tried Opera a few days ago... I didn't like that there wasn't an adblock filter built-in. Plus there isn't a spell checker!

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: potato28
Plus there isn't a spell checker!

Spellchecker for Opera.

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

My firewall does a decent enough job blocking ads. Opera is nice indeed.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: potato28
I tried Opera a few days ago... I didn't like that there wasn't an adblock filter built-in. Plus there isn't a spell checker!

Umm, Opera has both of those...

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

Originally posted by: potato28
I tried Opera a few days ago... I didn't like that there wasn't an adblock filter built-in. Plus there isn't a spell checker!

Umm, Opera has both of those...

The built in ad-blocker in Opera is not as good as the adblock extension for firefox. But yeh, it has one built in and firefox does not.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

I abandoned FF for Opera a little while ago. I need IE for a few sites, so I installed IE7. Does anyone else notice a similarity to Opera?

 

[SonicIce]

:heart:It's all about the O