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I really like Opera. I've used it for months, but every time i just come back to Firefox. One big problem (for me) it's their release cycle. I know that many pe
by Spittie 14y ago
I really like Opera. I've used it for months, but every time i just come back to Firefox.
One big problem (for me) it's their release cycle. I know that many people hate the fast releases of Firefox and Chrome, but this way i get new features sooner than Opera.
Another problem are addons. I'm an heavy Scriptish/Stylish user, and there aren't equivalents for those in Opera. I know that i can enable the userscript folder and copy scripts here, but I'm honestly too lazy to do it, and loading CSS through javascript is just not fast enough.
Then there are the nitpicks. For example, on Firefox/Chrome "right click > search on google" open a new tab, on Opera it load Google in the current tab. Or, on Firefox/Chrome middle-clicking on the back button open the previous page in a new tab. On Opera this just doesn't work (at least, until Opera 11.64 - I haven't tried Opera 12 yet).
And Opera is not opensource. While it's not a so big deal for me, i prefer to use opensource applications when i can.
There are also features that i would love to see on Firefox. Tab Stacking is awesome, way better than Panorama. I really like also how Opera put the tab bar on the left, I find it better than Tree Style Tab.
I'll try the new version later, but i doubt that the new features will be worth a switch for me.
- Tomis02 14y ago> For example, on Firefox/Chrome "right click > search on google" open a new tab, on Opera it load Google in the current tab. In Opera Ctrl+Click opens a new tab, Ctrl+Shift+Click opens a new tab in the background. It's not a new feature. Learn to play your class. ;)
- adamtulinius 14y agoNice trick. I use Opera as well, and didn't know about this. However, i can't think of any other software where modifier keys makes a difference in context-menus, so i really wouldn't blame people for not knowing.
- Tomis02 14y agoI'm not blaming people for now knowing, Opera has so many cool features it's hard to become fully aware of them. To be honest I don't remember how I found out about this one. In Opera (and other browsers) you can use modifier keys when clicking links, so it kind of makes sense to use this in context menus as well. Opera is always surprising. Did you know you have mouse gestures (such as 'close') in menus such as preferences? It blew my mind.
- vijaykiran 14y agoOn a Mac, hitting modifier keys, change the menus (both the menu bar and context-menus). e.g. right clicking a folder in Finder and holding alt will show different options.
- joliveira 14y agoOn windows right clicking on a file and selecting delete sends it to trash, right clicking, holding shift and selecting delete skips trash. This is at least windows xp old. On windows 7, don't remember the others, if you hold shift while right clicking more options appear (probably depends on the file).
- maggit 14y agoIn the "Advanced" tab in Opera's preferences it is possible to uncheck "Reuse current tab". In my opinion it would be a much better default to have this unchecked. With this configuration change "Right click->Search" will open a new tab.
- rplnt 14y agoAlso Ctrl+number to open Speed Dial entries becomes usable.
- anonymfus 14y ago>For example, on Firefox/Chrome "right click > search on google" open a new tab, on Opera it load Google in the current tab. Uncheck Preferences-Advanced-Tabs-"Reuse current tab". >on Firefox/Chrome middle-clicking on the back button open the previous page in a new tab. You can clone tab, so it's possible to implement clone tab and go back macros with custom button like opera:/button/Duplicate%20page,,,%22Back%20in%20background%22,Rewind%20&%20Back