Opera 9.00 Final released

Aardark · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 10:23 AM

http://www.opera.com/download/

If you already use Opera 8, you can just install it in your current Opera folder (all your settings will be saved).

New features:

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BitTorrent

You don't need a separate BitTorrent application to download large files. Simply click a torrent link and start the download.

Okay, this is shit. By default, it automatically opens torrents in Opera, and doesn't even give you the option to use an external program. You'll probably want to turn this shit off by going to opera:config and unchecking the bittorrent Enable box.

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Thumbnail preview

It is easy to have many tabs open at once in Opera. But exactly which tab had that video you wanted? Hover your mouse on any tab to see a thumbnail preview.

I'm not sure how useful this is, but it doesn't bother me either.

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Add your favorite search engines

Right-click on the site's search field and select "Create search" from the menu.

Cool.

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Content blocker

Remove ads or images - it's up to you. Right-click (CTRL-click on the Mac) on the Web page and choose "Block content".

Well, I guess this is pretty useful. I don't know if I'll use it a lot, but many people probably will.

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Site preferences

Want to view a site in a different way or deny certain cookies? Want to block pop-ups on certain sites only? Right click and select "Edit site preferences".

A++.

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Improved rich text editing

Use advanced text editing features for today's most popular Web applications.

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Widgets

Small Web applications (multimedia, newsfeeds, games and more) that make your desktop experience more fun. Use the Widgets menu to discover new widgets and access your favorites. Visit widgets.opera.com to learn more.

I personally think widgets are mostly useless, but maybe you cool indie hipster dudes from Post Your Desktop will like it. For those that use pandora.com, there is a widget for it, but it's a bit buggy so far.

B4-Hunter · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 09:53 AM

Who use Opera anyway =D? I still think FF is better =) Not because everyone say so but cause I'm using it and I love it =D

Go GO!!

kapsi · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 10:56 AM

I use Opera cause I can't stand FF memory usage.

B4-Hunter · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by kapsi

I use Opera cause I can't stand FF memory usage.

Is it really that much? I'm using FF at work and I have Celeron 133 with 128 RAM here. Can't say it's slow or anything. Never had problems with this =).

Duminas · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 01:37 AM

I don't use Firefox because it's been known to suck 500+ MB of RAM whenever I use it. This is probably due to how I tend to have 30 tabs or more open at any given point with large histories, but I still expect it not to die every time this happens with Out of Memory errors (SessionSaver was not an option for me).

I've got 27 tabs open right now and Opera's still chugging along fine. But yay for 9 being final. I've been using the Preview 2 for some time, but version bumps are fun.

* Torrents in Opera got nuked faster than you can shake a stick at them.
* Tab thumbnails, I've honestly never used.
* Didn't use that searchengine thing, but that's pretty cool.
* Content blocker never gets used by me, but I run the squid/adzapper combo (Linux only, pretty much), so Opera doesn't even know of the ads it nuked.
* Site preferences rock for those pesky sites that block non-IE users.
* The new rich text editor... huh? I just have it sending source and such to gvim.

Yay for Opera.

Bigblah · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 05:57 PM

Yeah, Firefox's retarded RAM usage is pushing me towards Opera (the memory flush on minimize trick apparently doesn't work well for me... memory usage climbs back up to 300+ MB a few seconds after minimizing the FF window).

One thing I noticed about Opera: it actually copies URLs in the proper encoding (no more jumbled Asian characters in Flashget, yay!)

There's still one feature sorely lacking though -- search keyword buttons like the ones found on Googlebar. I want my search terms to be automatically split into individual buttons on the toolbar which I can then click to search for that particular keyword on the page, instead of having to type them again.

Cal · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 09:12 PM

FF is a RAMtard yet Opera's the browser that can't display gifs properly and usually crashes trying to load embedded video.

Aardark · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 12:16 PM

naw dog, there are no problems with gifs. I don't know about embedded video, since I'm not a huge fan of myspace. sites like youtube and google video work fine, tho.

Cal · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 10:45 PM

No problems in v9 or no problems in general? Because from my experience, Opera does not read gif framerates properly. It displays them too slow.

Snowknight · Jun 21, 2006, 09:09 AM

Finally, Opera 9 final is out. Thankfully, it has now remembered that I told it--long ago--to open my home page every time I open the browser. (I finally have enough incentive to start using it as my main browser.)
There seemed to be a bug with the preview (beta) releases where it didn't seem to save that setting correctly.

russ · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 07:28 AM

I downloaded this to serve as my "work" browser, because of weird proxy settings that are required to browse at work now, so I figured instead of changing my proxy settings in firefox twice a day, this would be a nice way of trying out Opera. So far the biggest issue I have with it is that Shift+Left Click opens links in new tabs, which is not nearly as comfortable as firefox's Ctrl+Left Click. Because I'm running on a laptop, using the touchpad and keyboard, this is important to me, and the Ctrl button is in a perfect spot for my pinky to rest while I am running the touchpad, the shift key on that side is uncomfortable to reach. So naturally it is time to play around with it and see if that can be modified.

Cyrus XIII · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by russ

instead of changing my proxy settings in firefox twice a day

Why is that?

russ · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 08:58 AM

Because I use this laptop both at home and at work. So change proxy settings when I get in to work each morning, and when I get home from work each evening.

eriol33 · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 10:39 PM

Ah very cool. This browser has torrent support as well. and the best of all, it's free.

I need alternative when FF crashed (a lot)

Sorry, what is the real difference between english and international version? language pack? java-support?

Snowknight · Jun 21, 2006, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by eriol

Ah very cool. This browser has torrent support as well. and the best of all, it's free.

Sorry, what is the real difference between english and international version? language pack? java-support?

Yes, but the torrent support is quite annoying--I have a torrent client for a reason. (I wish it were turned off by default, but oh well.)

The international version probably contains a multitude of languages. It has nothing to do with Java support.

Roph · Local time: Jun 21, 2006, 05:10 PM

I'd maybe use Opera if firefox crashed alot on me or used alot of my RAM or had some feature I wanted that I couldn't do in firefox, but it doesn't, so I'm fine. Opera supposedly renders pages faster, though I can live without it.

AcerBandit · Jun 21, 2006, 02:27 PM

So I am curious as Pom and now OP like Opera a whole lot, what makes it better than Firefox? I used to be a big Opera user back in the day but then switched to Mozilla/Firefox. Please enlighten me how it is now better.

eriol33 · Local time: Jun 22, 2006, 01:36 AM

Probably the torrent support and less ram usage compared to firefox is make opera usable as alternative of firefox, especially when the time the firefox crashes. The loading time is also much faster because Opera access the cache first, though it would be little problem if you want to update some pages, like your gamingforce control panel, you must hit the refresh button first before you could see the updated subcribed threads.

I honestly only using opera to browse because it doesnt have support for flashget shamelessly. =(