Comments on: What people are saying about Opera 9 (Part 1)

By: Dr. Floyd

Dr. Floyd — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:27:57 +0000

I love the ease of use of Opera…but I also was wondering about the auto-completion feature. Are there any tweak programs out there that anyone knows of that could be installed to add this functionality to Opera?

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:58:30 +0000

Maurcio, did you install Opera 9 over Opera 8? If so, try installing Opera 9 in a new directory.

By: Mauricio

Mauricio — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:26:23 +0000

Hi,

I love the Opera Browser, since 5.0 version. Basically because it is made for navigate, open, intuitive, light, and ready to to take advantage of the web in many ways (Dictionary, search, RSS, etc.) Currently I’m using 8.52. This time I had problems with the new version. My OS is Win 98 (may be is a reason). The point is that I’ve tried with the beta version and at the beginning i’ve got some messages from the error console, then I could go further and navigate, however it falled down many times, therefor I wait until the official release. When I installed it, at the beginning I’ve got a lot of messages from the error console and Opera9 couldn’t open the sites I tried to connect to.

Then I’m back at 8.52, wich I enjoy.

Bye,

Maurcio D.
mauricio.diazp@gmail.com
Colombia

By: asd

asd — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:36:41 +0000

Ehi, IE7+ is a pretty decent browser, even if inferior to Opera 9/8 and Firefox.

By: Steven G

Steven G — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:57:47 +0000

The Opera 9 browser is an awesome piece of work. When compared to the new IE7 beta (”Crash7″–cannot open 2 tabs at once), it is plain to see that you are being copied in many respects.

I absolutely LOVE the widgets feature, but wish you would encourage designers to include a ‘close’ button ON the widgets they design. I hate having to go to the drop down menu each time. Maybe a link to post directly to your blog is next (a la WordBlog?)

By: minghong

minghong — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:03:09 +0000

@Simon Houston, thanks. But I think it should be changed to Alt + Enter, as what Firefox does.

By: Wilhelm

Wilhelm — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:14:58 +0000

Nobody mentioned that they firefoxed opera up with this release. They even copied annoying “features” like the download window poping up after you save an image to your computer, AGH!

Hope Opera remember they have OLD users that like (and are used to) how opera behaves.

By: Simon Houston

Simon Houston — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:10:23 +0000

@minghong because that replaces a popular feature of opening the address in new tab/background tab.
However you can configure it to do the same as the others though.

By: Meh

Meh — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:42:04 +0000

The funny thing about the CNET review is how self-contradictory it is…

They say that in the end, people who “simply want a good, secure browser” should use Firefox. But since Opera is more secure than Firefox, that must imply that Opera is not a good browser… And that contradicts other parts of this crappy review.

Odd, odd, odd.

By: ReWiz

ReWiz — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:33:22 +0000

Rick wrote “One review omitted: CNET. It’s not a happy, happy, joy, joy review, so perhaps that’s the reason.”

CNET deliveres a pretty poor review. Not because it tells Firefox is better, but because the author seems to have no idea about what he is writing.
http://reviews.cnet.com/Opera_9/4505-9241_7-31929435-2.html?tag=sub
To name just the two most obvious things (there are lots more but they’d need explanation):
CNET: “BitTorrent-like media players”
- Shouldn’t CNET know what BitTorrent is?

CNET: “the new trash can icon”
- Shouldn’t CNET know about what is new in the product or at least be able to read the change log (it’s quite a bit to read)?

On the other side the article is telling pretty good things about Opera, except for some (partly false) drawbacks on details.
CNET: “Opera 9 is a good Internet browser. It is light-years ahead of Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 7 beta. ” … “We really do like Opera 9 …”

By: Pallab

Pallab — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:16:36 +0000

Opera’s autocompletion feature never works. The only thing it suceeds in doing is filling the email address on ocaasions. I really hope opera provides the functionalities of AI Roboforum in future.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:03:21 +0000

oops, guess Q doesn’t get styled here… should have used BLOCKQUOTE

Done

By: minghong

minghong — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:43:15 +0000

Finally Ctrl + Enter for .com.

But why no Shift + Enter (for .net) and Shift + Alt + Enter (for .org)?

By: Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:46:20 +0000

oops, guess Q doesn’t get styled here… should have used BLOCKQUOTE

By: Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:45:20 +0000

Please don’t try to pass off the Wand as autocompletion. It’s so limited that it’s not even fair to use the word. Alas, we wait in vain for actual autocompletion, where any field remembers anything that you’ve previously typed.

Depends on what you want from autocomplete. I don’t want to accidentally re-enter mistyped search queries from months ago I don’t want to a name field trying to autofill my internet handle when I’m filling out a business form… and so on.

I actually prefer Opera’s approach of only inserting pre-defined items.

Still, I can see it’d be good to have an option to remember everything – that seems popular, even if I personally wouldn’t use it