Opera 9 Preview 2

JellyWarrior · Post by **JellyWarrior** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:15 am

Just letting you know that you know that Opera 9 Preview 2 has been released, you can get it at:
http://snapshot.opera.com/

Opera has come a really long was in recent years. I remember a time when it was slow, was plagued with rendering problems, poor css support and authentication issues.

Opera 9.0 seems to address just about all my major complaints. The CSS support is excelent (even supports CSS 3.0), pages render great, it's fast and great looking.

Now that it's free, its almost converted me plenty of times, but Firefox still has the edge for me (because of it's extension support).

PS. Firefox 2.0 Alpha is also due out on 10 Feb, it's supposed to include phishing protection, improved tabbed browsing, and inline spell checking amongst other things.

Pyrite · Post by **Pyrite** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:55 am

Nice, I'll try it, I was disapointed with 8 and 9 beta mail was not so good on the first beta. Right now I'm using 7.54u2 best browser I ever used.

navi · Post by **navi** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:29 am

Looks sweet I downloaded it to my flash drive I'll try it out later when I get home.

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:25 pm

Firefox 1.5 has been dissapointing to say the least. I am seriously considering Opera, especially if that alpha goes wack.

What opera needs is extensions.

navi · Post by **navi** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:02 pm

Sir Savant wrote:Firefox 1.5 has been dissapointing to say the least. I am seriously considering Opera, especially if that alpha goes wack.

What opera needs is extensions.

You know it is possible to have more then one Web Browser on your PC. I have 4 myself just because I like to support the Open Source Community and also because ocasionaly I switch between them when certain webpages don't load correctly with one.

Post by **|darc|** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:38 pm

Opera is a nice browser, and I used to use it long before Firefox existed, but I can't stand its interface.

Jeeba Jabba · Post by **Jeeba Jabba** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:48 pm

I'm more of a classic rock/hiphop kind of guy.

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:27 pm

navi wrote:
Sir Savant wrote:Firefox 1.5 has been dissapointing to say the least. I am seriously considering Opera, especially if that alpha goes wack.

What opera needs is extensions.
You know it is possible to have more then one Web Browser on your PC. I have 4 myself just because I like to support the Open Source Community and also because ocasionaly I switch between them when certain webpages don't load correctly with one.

I actually have quite a few browsers. OBO, Firefox, IE(oh noes!), MYIE2, Lynx.

Unfortunately, I am low on hard drive space. Extensions would definitely (sp?) pull me over to the dark side.

But I am trying it out at school (yay for admin access!). So there is hope for the anakin in me.

hrb2k3 · Post by **hrb2k3** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:47 pm

trying out opera 9.0 p2 right now. seems faster than 8.51.

JellyWarrior · Post by **JellyWarrior** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:23 am

navi wrote:
Sir Savant wrote:Firefox 1.5 has been dissapointing to say the least. I am seriously considering Opera, especially if that alpha goes wack.

What opera needs is extensions.
You know it is possible to have more then one Web Browser on your PC. I have 4 myself just because I like to support the Open Source Community and also because ocasionaly I switch between them when certain webpages don't load correctly with one.

Sounds like you need IE View, it's a great little extension that adds the IE rendering engine to Firefox. If a web site gives you trouble then you simply click the IE icon and then problem solved!

Post by **Quzar** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:41 am

Sir Savant wrote:
navi wrote:
Sir Savant wrote:Firefox 1.5 has been dissapointing to say the least. I am seriously considering Opera, especially if that alpha goes wack.

What opera needs is extensions.
You know it is possible to have more then one Web Browser on your PC. I have 4 myself just because I like to support the Open Source Community and also because ocasionaly I switch between them when certain webpages don't load correctly with one.
I actually have quite a few browsers. OBO, Firefox, IE(oh noes!), MYIE2, Lynx.

Unfortunately, I am low on hard drive space. Extensions would definitely (sp?) pull me over to the dark side.

But I am trying it out at school (yay for admin access!). So there is hope for the anakin in me.

Opera has the ability to use plugins. There just aren't very many of them.

My biggest problem with opera is that since i have it set to store like... every url ever typed into the address bar, it takes forever once i type the www. and it pulls up a hundred million responses.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:44 pm

You can clear those or set it to do that automatically.

Post by **Quzar** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:31 pm

my point is that i want them all to be there. If i wanted to clear them i could do it easily. i wish though that i could have it both store all my old addresses, but wait until i'm done typing www. to start narrowing down the search, so that i wouldn't have to wait like... 30-120 seconds before typing in the rest.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:54 pm

I'm rockin' the Firefox with no plugins. Starts fast, doesn't give me any problems, and it works perfectly. No viruses, no bullshit going on. It works.

And that's all I ask for.

Pyrite · Post by **Pyrite** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:13 pm

Preview 2 of Opera is really good I like when you have multiple tabs you can move the mouse pointer to a tab and it shows a screenshot of the page in that tab.

Show widgets is also interesting, lots of new stuff.

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:38 pm

Quzar wrote:my point is that i want them all to be there. If i wanted to clear them i could do it easily. i wish though that i could have it both store all my old addresses, but wait until i'm done typing www. to start narrowing down the search, so that i wouldn't have to wait like... 30-120 seconds before typing in the rest.

You know you don't have to type "www", right? Especially if it's a site you've been to before. Opera (along with Firefox and, I believe, IE) will start pulling up that site's address without you typing "www". For instance, if you simply start typing "dcemula", it should pull up the address: http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/index.php

hrb2k3 · Post by **hrb2k3** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:28 pm

or you can just bookmark the site.

Post by **Quzar** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:46 pm

curt_grymala wrote:
Quzar wrote:my point is that i want them all to be there. If i wanted to clear them i could do it easily. i wish though that i could have it both store all my old addresses, but wait until i'm done typing www. to start narrowing down the search, so that i wouldn't have to wait like... 30-120 seconds before typing in the rest.
You know you don't have to type "www", right? Especially if it's a site you've been to before. Opera (along with Firefox and, I believe, IE) will start pulling up that site's address without you typing "www". For instance, if you simply start typing "dcemula", it should pull up the address: http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/index.php

! i hadn't realized that... i mean, i knew it did that, but it didn't occur to me to always do that and it would sort anyways. that drastically cuts the load time (down to 1-10 seconds, although I'm on my laptop which has MANY less addresses on it than my desktop, so as soon as i get my desktop fixed i'll see how long it takes there). thanks.

and hrb2k3, i have every site i go to frequently opened all the time, with the session saved to open as default, but every once in a while i'll navigate through links to some random page that i won't save, but later will be like hrm... what was that, all i remember is it started with bea, ah there we go.