What would you like to see in the next Opera desktop browser?
Published July 3rd, 2006 7:14 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanAfter the successful release of Opera 9 and its record number of downloads, Opera is moving right along with the next version of the browser.
Opera, this week, will be working on the initial product roadmap for the next version of the desktop browser, and is looking to its users for input. In particular, Opera is looking to prioritize what features Opera users, especially web developers, are craving.
I sent in my list of features and functionality that I would like to see implemented to the Opera team working on the roadmap, last night. The most important feature that is missing in the Opera browser, IMHO, is an Update Manager (similar to what Firefox has). I’ve written about it last November here on Opera Watch. (Read: Where is Opera’s Update Manager?)
Now Opera wants to hear from you, the one who will ultimately use the final product.
Here is your chance to have a say in what makes it into the Opera browser. What do you think is missing in the desktop browser? Are there any features or functionality you’d like to be added? Is Opera not supporting your favorite JavaScript or CSS functionality?
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What makes you so sure?
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Chaals, what makes me sure that they’re fine folk? Or that they’ll monitor the comments?
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The primary thing that keeps me jumping between Opera and Firefox are the debugging tools. Most of the stuff in the Web developer toolbar can be replicated through bookmarklets, but nothing I can find quite matches the sheer power of the DOM Inspector. I’d love it if they could implement a comparable tool and take the interface to the next level.
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Oh, Hi people from Opera. I’m actually an Opera user. Just trying out Flock.
Anyway
1. Update Manager
2. Something similar to Places (in Minefield)
3. Feed Manager similar to Flock (Flock’s builds on Safari’s)
4. Option to increase only Text Size (via Site Prefs)
5. Improve Search Plugin Manager (Move them up and down, try Search Engine Ordering Extension for Firefox)
6. Build on Site Preferences (make every option such as Page Zoom Site Specific)
7. This may not be possible, but add a cooler icon or just make the O look better.
8. Ability to subscribe to Filter Lists in Content Blocker
Pretty much that sums it up.
Good Luck Guys.
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1. ruby tag support
2. update manager
3. rich text copy/paste support
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CSS:
text-shadow. With one line of code you can make page noticably nicer.
border-radius. Gecko has it. Nightly WebKit has it.
text-justify:newspaper. IE supports it. It makes justified text much better (Opera’s buggy justification needs work anyway)
M2:
* filters attached to any view (not as separate section)
* PGP/GPG/S-Mime
* Forwarding of multiple messages in a single e-mail
* color-coded mails in views (I want filters to be able to make e-mail appear in red in views)
Mac:
* not losing session when window is closed
* using Keychain for Wand passwords
* optionally using Addressbook for contacts
* drag’n'drop of all text, downloaded files, received email attachments, mails, mail views.
* ability do drag tab to text editor to view page source. support for TextMate as source viewer (dunno who’s bug it is).
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Hey there. I am an Opera junkie myself, but I keep on using Flock in addition to Opera due to its synchronization abilities. Hence comes my wish to make Opera browsers synchronize its bookmarks, settings, widgets, etc. to my.opera.com accounts as well as include integration with photos and blog postings at the Opera Community. Try out, see the beauty of synchronization and integration for yourself.
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9. Private Browsing (Similar to that of Safari)
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10. New Theme
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The only things I really want in Opera right now are:
1) UserJS scripting for the IRC component. (i.e.: “when a user joins this channel and this nick is this, then /msg them hello”, etc.)
2) The ability to keep an IRC channel open in Opera even if you close it’s tab, and then being able to re-open it as if you never closed it via the chat panel of the sidebar.
3) “Auto connect to this network at startup” checkbox for IRC networks, and the option to turn off automatic opening of IRC channels in tabs when connected/joined.
Otherwise, I can’t really think of anything–Opera is a really great browser!!
Keep up the excellent work!
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HTML mail forwarding/composition capability.
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11. Resizable Search Box
12. Doing something with favicons (It’s annoying when you use all your favicons for the Bookmarks and Search Plugins just because you cleared your Cache)
13. Easter Eggs
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14. Real Anti-Phishing (Like Bon Echo or IE7)
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Like others have posted I’d like to see a better update manager. Other than that the mail support for IMAP is still limited in my view.
My work email is IMAP based and I still find myself using Thunderbird instead of Opera, little things like the lack of a tree view of the folder list tend to bug me a bit in Opera.
If its possible and I don’t know whether this is at all, but integration with Bloglines would be fantastic!
As Erik said, a decent DOM inspector would be very useful as well!
Overall however the browser is fantastic, have been using it now for quite some years and it does just get better and better!
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15. New Password Saving Feature described by Myk Melez here
http://www.melez.com/mykzilla/2006/02/improving-firefox-password-saving.html
16. Similar to “I’m Feeling Lucky” in the Address Bar.
17. Animation when you create or close or reorder tabs.
18. Something similar to Live Bookmark and Microsummaries (to quickly just glance at the news)
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M2:
* automatically set From: field when replying to mailing lists (which allow mails from certain addresses) and to certain groups of contacts (separate account for bussiness and family).
* alt-click on column to show messages matching clicked value (see The Bat!) - click on attachement icon shows only maisl with attachements, click on person’s name, shows only mails from that person. Unlike views, these ‘quick filters’ can be accumulated. ESC returns to normal.
* check spelling as you type (+ support CSS3 wave border)
* UI for RSS. Current plain HTML link under message looks like quick’n'dirty hack. There’s no UI for post categories and other metadata (category-based threaded view might be a powerful feature).
* allow mail views to show fragments of messages in the same view (not in preview pane, but between messages themselves). This will allow RSS to be more safari-like and e-mail more outlook-like.
* don’t show unformatted XML when opening RSS/Atom feed (when user followed link instead of using icon in addressbar).
* don’t use developer’s error console for reporting e-mail problems
JS:
* allow UserJS to add or change Opera buttons (button labels) read and set checkboxes, so they can report status and be controlled from browser’s chrome.
* make JS messages to the point. Show variable names, report exact type names, show current values.
* make error console as panel… or just bring back the previous HTML-based console, so I can tweak it as I like.
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Oh yes and folders for feeds would be useful so its easier to catagorise feeds (e.g. Personal, Work etc).
It would be nice also if the email filters behaved more like thunderbird where it can automatically move emails to certain folders etc which I find very useful to prioritise emails.
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Oh, yeah, I’d also like to see these BitTorrent-related things added in:
1) Skipping certain files in .torrents where multiple files are included (probably via the transfer’s “properties” dialog)
2) More information on individual files in torrents (i.e.: # of pieces remaining, % complete, etc.)
3) Torrent priorities
Other things:
1) Extra “special fields” as needed in wand.
2) Fix dragging of widgets in Linux version. I’m using SUSE 9.1 right now, and if I try to drag a widget for too long, it will fly off the screen uncontrolably. This probably isn’t Opera’s fault, because other apps that have borderless windows that you can drag do the same thing, but maybe Opera could design a simple implementation of moving widgets that works? That’d be extremely awesome, but I don’t expect it to happen, since it’s not really Opera’s fault.
And that’s all I can think of for now. Thanks again for making the best browser there is!
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I don’t know, if this bug is still unfixed.
But when you right click on a mailto: link with a Subject, and try to copy it; then everything after mailto: gets copied (including &subject= and all the code stuff after it. Firefox gets it right by copying only the email address. It would be nice to see it fixed.
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You can see what I mean by right clicking and trying to copy Daniel’s email address in the Poll section.
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Replying to #15:
About the tab animation: if that’s going to be added, it should be an option–some of us don’t have any processing power to spare.
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Oops, sorry. I guess you’re right. That’ll probably never materialize given that it might be Power Hungry
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3 simple things:
1. Form autocomplete IE/FF way.
2. Ability to do some basic stuff (delete, new folder, drag & drop…) from bookmark’s menu right click menu.
3. In Windows version: REAL native top menu bar behavior (ie, no selected coloring on hover).
That’s it!
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1. Update manager
2. Browser sync (like Google Browser Sync)
3. Better feed interface. It looks like **** compared to the rest of Opera :p That probaby goes for M2 as well, but I don’t use it.
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- form autocomplete
- session management for single window
- button for updating all feeds
- optional native theme under kde
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I generally use Firefox but gave Opera a spin for a week and prefer Opera “vanilla” to Firefox “vanilla.” The only things that had me going back to Firefox was a few extensions: Sage because I prefer feeds next to my browser window; DOM Inspector; and Firebug for debugging Javascript. So the features I would like to see are developer tools for testing– plus CSS support for :target would be great!
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Just a few:
M2:
IMAP support needs to be improved big time.
When you delete a message in one of your imap folders, it should be moved to your imap trash folder. ( Need an option to specify it first. )
When you create a draft, it should be uploaded to your imap drafts folder. (need an option to specify it first)
When you mark something as junk, it should be moved to your imap junk folder. ( need an option to specify it first.)
Also need options to automatically empty the trash and junk imap folders.
None of this local filters mumbo jumbo as that’s just not what IMAP is about. Keep that for pop3.
Put simply, we need an option to turn on a webmail-like (or thunderbird-like) interface for IMAP with great drag-n-drop support etc .and be able to manipulate everything on the imap server *directly* like other clients can.
HTML composing for others.
Feeds:
If feeds are going to use the mail client, we need to be able to adjust the view/toolbar settings separately. User might want to display just a message list for feeds, but display both a message list and preview for mail.
Printing:
We need to be able to print everything in a selection. Not just text. Printing needs to surpass IE.
other:
Selecting and copying of rich text for pasting in other applications.
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How about fixing a major piece of all rendering regressions since Opera 7 ?
Anyway,
* better javascript debugging, and error messages
* error console embeded with the rest of Opera’s UI
chat logs for irc
* relaxed security for panels, or load a widget inside a panel, because many users don’t like widgets clutttering their desktop, like me
* fix all the gaps in DOM 1 and DOM 2, CSS 1 and CSS 2.1… it’s about time
* major ftp support (download, upload, rename, delete, multiget)
* download queing
* persistent store for userjs
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1. Update Manager
2. Grouping of feeds
3. Seperate Feeds into seperate panel
4. Right click for wysiwyg editors
5. Column layout display in css
6. Border radius in css
7. DOM inspector. Please!!!!!
8. View Source is annoying cause you can’t hit / to bring up quick search
9. Something like the webdeveloper toolbar
Opera already is my fav browser for developing, but the addition of developer tools like are found in the developer toolbar and DOM inspector of FF would mean I can use Opera exclusively for testing
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To match correctly all menus and functions, especially search functions, with Japanese and the other Asian languages.
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I’m a developer, so I care more about the web technologies that Opera supports.
JavaScript:
- Object.watch() / Object.unwatch()
- Array extras
CSS:
- overflow-x / overflow-y
- :root
- :last-child (Opera supports :first-child, that just doesn’t make sure to not support :last-child)
- :target
- :empty
- :contains()
- :not()
HTML:
- rowspan=”0″ and colspan=”0″
- cellspacing=”n%” and cellpadding=”n%” (currently percentage values are treated as integers)
- Better looking optgroup
Developer tool:
- DOM inspector
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Typo, I mean “that just doesn’t make sense to not support :last-child”.
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Also, things that will make Opera better:
- Use better font for Chinese please. Now Chinese webpages just look bad under Opera.
- Better QA on Chinese (simplified) version of Opera. See the problems I encountered in Opera 9 Chinese (simplified) version
- Extension, extension, extension.
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UI:
1) tagging support for bookmarks
2) mechanism to support remote bookmarks in XML-like formats
3) mechanism to use roaming profile
4) mechanism to backup profiles
web tech:
1) support XBL2
2) support CSS3 selectors
3) support CSS3 multi-column layout
4) support CSS3 advanced layout
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- equivalent command of reorderring current tabs to the previous/next tabs for keyboard settings
- Better find highlighting like what Maxthon does, it allows highlighting text as multiple words simultaneously by separating text as a unit
- advanced APIs for widgets, I want to manipulate the UI elements of Opera using APIs, and etc…
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A working email client!
I mean, M2 would be very nice, but it’s so buggy that it’s completely unusable (at least IMAP, have never tried POP). It locks up, hides old messages, doesn’t download new messages, creates duplicate messages, can’t move certain messages, and so on ad infinitum.
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+ reorder toolbars. I want my personal bar under the address bar.
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If there was one thing I want to happen with Opera, it is for the download manager to be overhauled. At the moment, I don’t trust Opera with my big important downloads - here’s what would make me happy:
- Ability to resume transfers after restarting Opera (is it meant to be able to do this? because I’ve never had it work on me)
- Allow user to add multiple sources for files and ability to download from these sources simultaneously
- Ability to use something like FileMirrors to find extra sources and submit sources (default: opt-out)
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It would be nice if “Fit to width” would work in the source code view.
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I like to think Opera is flawless but there are a few addons that would be welcome.
*RSS Feed organized in folders just like the Widgets
*Widget control from the taskbar icon (just like the Widgets menu
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Dear Opera developers,
what I want to be changed in next Opera version
are things removed, not added.
First, and most important, focus on fixing bugs.
Do exhaustive beta testing and deal with 95% of bugs
_before_ you release the new version. Not in x.01,
x.02, etc bug-fix patches.
“Release WIR” worked great, “release at [date]” doesn’t work at all.
And second, throw away glittering eye-candy useless
stuff.
Widgets? What the hell is that good for? Bit torrent?
Code good download manager _first_, then tinker
with Bit torrent. UserJS? Oh great, but why did you
brake UserCSS _again_?
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please, PLEASE make an option to backup and restore all my settings between installs (toolbar, personal css, skins, etc.).
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1. Update Manager.
2. Debugging tools. I’d love something similar to Firebug.
3. A better source viewer. There’s a few cases where the highlighting gets out of whack. Line numbers would be nice too.
4. RSS folders or feed merging. When I have 40 feeds, going through a long list is a bit annoying. If I could put them in folders or merge certain feeds into on (example being friends blogs), I’d be happier.
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1. API/SDK allowing extensions
2. Form Filler
3. Update manager
4. Better ftp support.
5. A more improved implementation of widgets.Each widget shouldnt make a new entry in the taskbar.
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1. Extensions. Plain and simple. :p
Just kidding.
But I would like to see what Opera currently offers brought forward.
Right now, we have UserJS and buttons to customize our browsing experience, and widgets also; but most people cannot find them without a lot of digging.
A few of my ideas on how to capitalize on them would be to include them in the Opera Community and changing the Customization area to the “Add-ons” area or something similar.
Also, it would be cool if the add-ons’ installation could be automated somehow, with developers choosing certain features to add, and having them placed into the interface (like putting a button on one of Opera’s toolbars, a userjs added to a webpage, and a widget to tie them together–much like installing a setup). Notsomuch a new feature, but just an easier way for the “average” user to find and install them.
Other than that, the only other thing I can think off would be widget management from the tray icon, and a show-all, hide-all button for them. (Not sure about applying this on other systems than Windows though). Oh, and a new icon for Opera would be nice.
Now what are you doing still reading this? Go and get working on the new Opera browser!
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Opera should do better with using network.
Opera browser sync, just like Google browser sync for firefox(http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/).
Saving opera configuration all at Opera Server, so we needn’t re-config opera when we reinstall or use opera between different computers.
Please see my notes on the different between opera and google: http://my.donews.com/jnan/2006/05/17/software_opera_internet_google/ (in Chinese, but you can translate it into your language with help of google translate, like this english copy: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmy.donews.com%2Fjnan%2Ftag%2Fopera%2F )
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One-click backup. You would not believe how important it is when you have to reinstall your OS or move everything from one computer to another. Currently it is like pain in the a…
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Socks5 support please!
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Better Import/Export options would be one i know some would like.
API:
I would REALLY like a way for an external program to query opera for say how many unread emails there are and stuff…
Maybe a COM Object that could be used to access some internals of opera would be handy, To prevent malicious applications from taking over opera you could perhaps limit what the api could be used for(like only reading certain things from opera).
Uhm.. Also, Changing the DEFAULT theme from the auful setup which REALLY confuses those coming from IE/FF.
Seriously, anytime i do a fresh install of opera i spent 10-15minutes moving icons around, changing toolbars, etc, just to something that most would find ‘normal’
Even just having a wizard on a ‘fresh install’ which asks for the default toolbar layout, or a more familiar IE layout.
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- An optional skin which feels like KDE, maybe the upcomming KDE 4 style.
- The same for Windows Vista. I hate it, if every app has an different look and feel compared to the OS. And most user made skins don’t look that great.
- Simple save&restore of made preverences. I need up to an hour to reconfigure an newly installed Opera.
- Remove the ugly search dialog! Every time I search something, the first match is hidden by the dialog. Compare Firefox - I like that behavor.
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Things I’d like to see in the Opera Web Browser:
Better CSS support.. With Google developers working on Firefox 2, and a massive work in progress on Gecko, Opera needs to finish implementing the rest of CSS 2, and get a head start on CSS 3. I’d hate to see Gecko based browsers blow Opera’s standards compliance away… (Not that Konqueror hasn’t already done that)
Some performance enhancments in the rendering engine. There are a lot of things that move and resize in CSS and JavaScript that do so very slowly in Opera. Examples (check out the animation examples, which should run smoothly). Opera’s rendering engine is lightweight, but has a tendency to use too many resources (and max out CPU usage) when rendering something that’s moving. I’ve heard that Opera Software is afraid of messing with a certain feature, even though it would fix this issue, but it really needs addressed.
Drag and drop toolbars. Not an essential, but being able to drop the toolbars in the exact order you want them would be nice.
Widgets that are capable of docking in a toolbar. It’d be nice to have the ability to integrate a widget with a toolbar, as if it were a button. It would make for a simple weather widget that doesn’t get in the way of the page being viewed, or another application.
An option to load a widget on startup. There’s no way I’ll remember to start them up by hand, so they’re no good to me if they won’t turn on by themselves…
Last, but not least, I’d like Opera Software to take this into consideration when going over all of these feature requests (mine included). I think it really brings the whole idea of feature requests into perspective.
Thanks for taking the time to listen to a delusional mind. It’s always refreshing to know that you guys really do care about what us peons think…
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(Sorry about that mess, didn’t realize that while an unordered list would display in the preview, it wouldn’t after the comment was posted. This should be a little easier to read.)
Things I’d like to see in the Opera Web Browser:
*Better CSS support… With Google developers working on Firefox 2, and a massive
-work in progress on Gecko, Opera needs to finish implementing the rest of CSS 2,
-and get a head start on CSS 3. I’d hate to see Gecko based browsers blow Opera’s
-standards compliance away… (Not that Konqueror hasn’t already done that)
*Some performance enhancments in the rendering engine. There are a lot of things
-that move and resize in CSS and JavaScript that do so very slowly in Opera. Examples
-(check out the animation examples, which should run smoothly). Opera’s rendering
-engine is lightweight, but has a tendency to use too many resources (and max out
-CPU usage) when rendering something that’s moving. I’ve heard that Opera Software
-is afraid of messing with a certain feature, even though it would fix this issue,
-but it really needs addressed.
*Drag and drop toolbars. Not an essential, but being able to drop the toolbars in
-the exact order you want them would be nice.
*Widgets that are capable of docking in a toolbar. It’d be nice to have the ability
-to integrate a widget with a toolbar, as if it were a button. It would make for a
-simple weather widget that doesn’t get in the way of the page being viewed, or
-another application.
*An option to load a widget on startup. There’s no way I’ll remember to start them
-up by hand, so they’re no good to me if they won’t turn on by themselves…
*Last, but not least, I’d like Opera Software to take this into consideration when
-going over all of these feature requests (mine included). I think it really brings
-the whole idea of feature requests into perspective.
Thanks for taking the time to listen to a delusional mind. It’s always refreshing to know that you guys really do care about what us peons think…
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I only have on request: improve the printing functionality! It happens quite often that Opera is not able to print properly. Example: http://www.amentio.no/
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I whould like to see support for Trackerless BitTorrent trasfers (DHT)!
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More focus on M2, please. (See “Compiled M2 wishes” in the wish list)
Expand the concept of Access Points to other parts of the browser as well: Bookmarks, contacts, notes…
Official Opera on USB support, ideally multiplatform.
Opera PIM? And no, widgets don’t do it for me
The searches need a proper editor where we can move searches up and down etc. OpSEd is not quite obsolete yet.
Opera services: Bookmark, Contact, Notes etc. sharing over the internet for multiple Opera installations (synchronizing home/work machines, etc.) - also a good way to generate income from “premium” users, I think. Could be integrated into my.opera. Maybe I’ll expand on this idea sometime in the wish list.
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The title said “features users are craving”, so I guess fixes are implicit
– M2: private emails. If Opera is installed with separate settings for each user, then why not have the mbs files encrypted with the master-password or something ? This goes for IRC details too (”perform outgoing commands” on connect usually contain some private authentication to IRC servers), but not for Feeds
– Wand:ability to jump to wand management for the current site
– Wand:why hide the fact that the Wand passwords are retrievable when you know Opera’s master password ?? I have to jump through JS hoops every time
– UI: ability to undo all commands, especially close window with lots of tabs in it, and close tab when filling a form (paranoid copy to note might help, I know)
– Dev tools, like decent DOM Inspector. Especially style rules for elements
– Enhancements of stats like page size, d/l speed, encoding sent: I want log of HTTP headers, most notably
– Transfers fixes
– Saving is improving, but I would like Opera to save things listed in CSS (like background: url(image.png)) and just maybe, in JS
I know this is not a voting poll and devs will consider the best suggestions above (and bellow. and level), some of them really whet my appetite for the next version. Some are just crazy
Oh, and extensions, please. Just kidding.
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Minimize to the system tray, even when the mail/feed thingy is not turned off. Maybe an option for it.
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1. Stability, stability, stability. Don’t crash.
2. Linux Opera’s qt related compatibilities in CJK input.
3. Compatibility with major web services, as Google something.
4. More CSS/ECMA Script compliences.
5. Above all, fast in speed and small in size.
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I agree strongly with many of these ideas and hope Opera takes the community’s opinions into consideration! Opera should identify the things Firefox offers that Opera cannot match, as this is preventing it from increasing its marketshare amongst those using alternative market (which I see as Opera’s most likely potential market.)
Speaking as a Mac user, please, _please_ dedicate some resources to making Opera a really great Mac app! Some heavy tweaking and beautifying of the native skin and some simple native Mac features\shortcuts\etc would make Opera a far stronger contender on the Mac platform and justify the effort already spent on making it such a fast and stable port. The Mac forum at My Opera is a great source of wishes related to Opera being better for Mac - creating a perfect Cocoa imitation skin is the first and most important step here.
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Saito point 3. Shouldn’t that be sent to GoogleWatch? :-p
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I’m actually quite happy with the browser core; I have few quirks with integrated Flash-stuff, but I’d guess they’ll fix that.
For the next major version I’d like to see M2 enhanced further, from simple things (nicknames for E-Mail-Adresses) to more advanced stuff (HTML composing, text blocks similarly entered like in The Bat, custom reply/compose templates for each contact).
However, what I’d really like to see would be the addition of an integrated calender, where I could link dates with mails and URLs and have a reminder for it. But given the general feedback here so far, I doubt that this will happen.
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RSS feeds into folder would be great.
IRC slightly more options
M2; I’d like mail that was not filtered into another folder to go to a ‘general’ folder. Your intray has all mail, so its harder to delete old mail since some are actually filed elsewhere (in a ‘view’) and you do not wat to delete those. If there’s a ‘general’ view/folder, you now you can delete things in it because you know they are not in another folder.
Bookmarks: being able to move/delete them from the menu would be very handy.
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:: High Priority
1. Complete AJAX support.
2. Encoding on Site Preferences.
3. Update manager FTW.
:: Not so-high priority
1. Show/hide with one click from tray icon (tray icon useless otherwise) for Windows
2. Folders for Feeds.
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* Remove [target="_blank"]
* Reload userStylesheet like 8.54 for edit&testing render
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The most important change I would like to see in Opera is FLEXIBLE and MOVEABLE TOOLBARS. I just want to move address bar to the same line as menu bar, change width of search bar, rename shortcuts dragged to bars and so on. It is possible for every other browser (Firefox, MSIE) but not for Opera.
Opera interface has very fast response, it is very speedy and I like it very much, but unfortunately it is rigid and there was no significant change since I remember.
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One again, killer feature would be - feed and bookmark sync via my.opera. And thanks for Opera 9!
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I would like to repeat the HTML mail once again: We can read it in M2, why can’t we also compose it?
There are occasions where I need to be able to format my message or embed an image for clarification, and I keep an Thunderbird installation just for this purpose. And no, attaching a pdf document is not the same thing.
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1. EXTENSIONS, EXTENSIONS, EXTENSIONS
2. Better feed reader with folders (take a look on )
3. Form autocomplete like in FireFox
4. Remote bookmarks and feeds
5. Download queue in transfers
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One thing more:
- fast and not-resource-greedy address auto-completion, even for large history volumes (over 1000 addresses)
- the same auto-completion for forms
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I’m not craving so much, I think almost everything is perfect, but I want a new interface and maybe a cooler icon. I believe that there’s more things that can be improved in Opera, but I only use Opera to surf the internet. I’m not using widgets, M2, feeds etc. so I don’t know if anything is needed to be fixed there. Sorry if my english is bad, I’m just a 14 year old swede, but I hope that you understand what I want to say and that you don’t lose respect for me as I am only 14 years old. My opinion counts to.
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The second point meant to be in my previous post:
Better feed reader with folders (take a look on Akregator)
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I’d like to see ftp upload capability, and improved IRC chat support, oh and an updater too.
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Based on importance:
1. Bug fixes
2. Speed (specially the startup when there’s a big cache)
3. DOM Inspector
4. JavaScript Debugger
5. Update manager
6. Serious improvements for Search Engine (separators and some more stuff).
7. More site-specific options.
8. WYSIWYG editing for the mail client.
The list could go on.
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I’m happy to know at least Olli watched here, thanks a lot.
For those who new to Opera, not working Google Service is big issue, albeit it’s their faults, I recently came to think so.
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1. Update Manager.
2. Debugging tools. Especially for javascript.
3. A more improved implementation of widgets.Each widget shouldnt make a new entry in the taskbar. And put the widget menu in the tray icon menu.
4. Although I have not had any specific problems with M2 the IMAP support could be improved.
Other than that, keep improving the best browser known to mankind.
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1. An option that prevents download links fom opening a blank new tab would be fine and very useful (like the FireFox extension “Disable Tartget for Downloads”).
2. Update Manager
3. A better search engine
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For me personally, I would really like to see a version of Opera that supports the Yahoo! Mail Beta. Also, I would like to be able to synchronise my contacts with other applications (in my case, my Yahoo! contacts). It’s a nuisance that I have one set of contacts in Opera and an overlapping set in Yahoo! (which sync with my mobile phone, but not with Opera).
I know Opera doesn’t want to be a PIM like Outlook or Notes, but as long as M2 is a part of Opera, there is information in Opera that could be very usefully sync’d with a PIM (local or online).
Cheers, Tony.
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I am surprised more people haven’t said extensions….:)
- Bookmark sync (maybe indpendant of del.icio.us and so on, and with my.opera.com as already said).
- Update manager.
- More CSS3 implemented.
- Anti phising.
- Some integration with Microformats? Automatic detection of hCard, and possibility to add it to your mail address list?? Too experimental?
- Red lines under words spelled wrong. Like in Konqueror, Fx Minefield and Word.
Probably lots more too. But now lunch is over, so back to my desk upstairs in 40deg C…:(
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Socks support. So that I can use the mail client at work. IE and FF both have socks support, but Opera doesn’t.
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RSS reader usability:
1. Looser integration with the mail client. Currently the RSS reader has some annoying limitations if you choose not to configure the mail client (f.i. the corresponding panel is not available).
2. A feed aggregator.
3. Threaded view for feeds, like Firefox’s Sage; a more compact item view, like Firefox’s Feedview.
4. A connection throttling counter separate from the browser’s connection counters. Reloading the feeds is not a time-critical operation, it shouldn’t swamp the line with dozens of simultaneous connections every few seconds.
5. Automatically delete the read feed items when a threshold (count / time, configurable per feed) is reached; automatically purge the deleted items when a time threshold is reached.
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Avoid annoyances
1) Bug Fixing
2) Save page with images in a separate folder
3) Copy richtext/html to clipboard (Just like IE)
Core changes
1)FTP client (upload)
2)WYSIWYG in M2
3)Calendar/Task manager in M2
4)SOCKS support
5)More CSS3 selectors
6)Auto Update (like firefox)
Minor Changes
1)Check for update of widgets
2)Folders for Feeds
3)Increase text size only
4)Encoding in Site preferences
5)Offical DOM inspector and Developer toolbar
6)Toolbar widgets (html contents in toolbar)
7)Export Favourite to IE
8)Allow users to “create” new toolbars
9)Improved Default skin
10)Better Bug tracking/reporting system
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Support for Trackerless Torrent-files.
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1. more css3 modules
2. more Javascript support (E4X)
3. Xforms
4. Xhtml 2.0
UI:
1. better Feed reader.
2. docable error console or always ontop option.
Maby:
* suport fore sip uri (built in voip klinet added like voice suport).
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The features that I would like to see on the next version are:
1. Update Manager
2. More compability on the websites
3. Better Content Blocker, that can support, receive and auto-update filter files, like the Filterset.G
4. More stability and speed
5. On the Status Bar, a section to put the information about the network:
legend: speed in/traffic in | speed out/traffic out
And on the right, show our IP with an option to copy it…
6. On the Status Bar, a section where we can see the count of ads/popups that had been blocked, and right click on it, we could see their url and open them…
7. Improve the M2 to became the best Email client on Earth, like your browser already it is!
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Better undo- or a backup-feature for notes
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1. XForms
1.1. XHTML Basic 1.1
2. SVG Support for CSS Property
2.1. WICD Core 1.0
3. XBL 2
1. More on tooltips
1.1. q@cite, table@summary, etc…
1.1.1 Preference for tooltips using XPath or CSS Selector.
2. Support Qt4 for unix.
2.1. better CJK Support
2.2 (Print to PDF)
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what I miss most:
- update manager
- profile backup
- possibility to see and export wand passwords
- automatically move mails into folders
- improved reliability of the mail client (although there has been progress already), e.g. “stop downloading” button does not react
- mail categories fully configurable (add new ones, rename them)
- export mails and notes
- more input fields for address book (see Thunderbird)
- display unstyled XML files
- fix performance issues with very long HTML code
- respect charset ASCII setting
- make fast “back”-button default setting again (hard to find in opera:config / UserPrefs)
- documentation of opera:config (which is an excellent feature!)
quite a long list, but with some of these topics I see it’s getting into the right direction.
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RSS:
1. Folders for feeds - I have 159 feeds, and these spread across THREE menus. Reading feeds is actually beginning to become cumbersome. Not so cumbersome as using a seperate feed reader - Opera is still faster and more convenient - but it’s getting borderline to be honest.
2. Nicknames for feeds - Why can’t I just jump to a feed by using a nickname, like I can for page bookmarks? Even if I have to preclude the nickname with rss: or feed:, this would be a major improvement in getting to feeds when you have a lot of them.
3. Opening feed links automatically - Just about every feed item has a link attached to it. Why do I have to click on that link? With a little experimenting, I’ve found that I can TAB into the feed item, and then use SHIFT+DOWN to keyboard navigate through the links. Nifty, if cumbersome. Shouldn’t I be able to open the orginal linked feed item just by hitting enter? (With CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to open in a background tab, for consistency? Please?)
The feed reader is good, but only for small numbers of feeds. It needs improvement…
Mail:
1. Certificates - I’m not a huge user of the M2 client, partly because (as others have pointed out) it has no GPG/X.509 security support. I’ve used the mail client in emergencies, and I liked it. But I can’t consider using it full time without this support.
Notes:
1. Better import/export options - Notes are just text files, right? So why not let them be imported/exported accordingly?
That’s about it. Opera is my default browser, and has been for years. (I even paid for it several times!) These criticisms may seem harsh, but Opera’s still better than the competition. Thanks for listening!
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-Better open/save dialog. This is painfull to use:
http://my.opera.com/kriko/homes/files/operadialog.png
-Possibility to use KDE native style (like in windows -> windows native)
-Better download manager:
-queue
-overall dl limit
-per dl limit