Comments on: Opera 9.2 teaser

By: Nathar Leichoz

Nathar Leichoz — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:55:24 +0000

@Fyrd: if a firefox-extension would exist for this feature the second part of the quote couldn’t be true

… you have not seen it in a desktop browser before…

@ResearchWizard: They could always use the term “real” to make it into something unique. e.g., RSS reader? There’s an extension for that already. But a real RSS reader? Now that’s new.

By: Yahia

Yahia — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:13:18 +0000

I think I got it
It’s going to be an IM unlike IRC…

By: Yahia

Yahia — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:10:09 +0000

Haha!! I think I got it everyone!
It’s probably going to be an embedded IM like MSN (read: unlike IRC)

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:03:07 +0000

Remote file management or syncing would be awesome.
I think adding a calendar would complement the mail,chat, and contact manager well.

What about that one VOIP program that Opera was supposed to integrate?

By: Øyvind Ø

Øyvind Ø — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:57:57 +0000

Do I dare to wish for Microformats handling of any kind????

By: ResearchWizard

ResearchWizard — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:33:33 +0000

Keep standard data (name, address, phonenumber, etc.) in a note folder

Why that complicated? This type of standard data belongs in the “Personal information” fields on Tools - Preferences - Wand. If you start to type in a (one line) form the fitting info is instantly available for autocomplete.
The advantage compared to implementations in other browsers: this works on any site, also those you’ve never filled anything in before.

Some time ago I even discovered the Wand could fill out multiple fields at once: just use the wand (icon or CTRL+Enter) with the yellow borderd fields - you can read my blog-post about this: “Great discovery: New Opera feature to auto fill in personal information - look out for the yellow borders around forms”

As the Personal information fields have a very limited number notes are indeed useful for further information: I have my bank account information as a text-snippet to insert it into an email (or copy to form fields), all my tens of own phone numbers etc in notes in a seperate folder which I put on top of all my other notes and a seperator after it.
This could also be used to have (small or big) templates for email or forum posts (Right click - Insert note).

Carl, if you want to have autocomplete pretty much like in other browsers you should check “OpS - Opera input suggestion” on userjs.org

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:08:58 +0000

Too much time and press is devoted to the Wii and Mini and the desktop browser falls into third place.

What makes you say that? Since when is press coverage a barometer for how much work is actually devoted to either product?

By: Investor

Investor — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:04:21 +0000

Regarding *Autocompletion*…

As a workaround… Keep standard data (name, address, phonenumber, etc.) in a note folder, and insert or drag/drop it into a form when needed… Same with (long) search strings, write/edit it in note, and drag/drop it into addressfield… ?

By: Discofever

Discofever — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:59:39 +0000

I sure hope the new feature helps Opera work on at least on 99% of the sites and solve the Flash Problems some people are experiencing with opera 9. I would also love to see some improvement to the mail client. Too much time and press is devoted to the Wii and Mini and the desktop browser falls into third place.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:27:17 +0000

I am constantly using 5 different browsers because none of them are perfect. I like the design of Opera but it has one shortcoming (aside from the fact that it doesn’t work on quite a few websites)and that is the lack of autocomplete in search forms. Most people do a lot of searches and more often than not you go back and modify your serach a bit. In Opera - as the only one of the 5 browsers I use - I have to type in the whole smear again. Please fix that in the next version.

By: Gongo

Gongo — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:55:53 +0000

I follow sirnh1.
My guess:
bookmarks can be stored remotely, so desktop and mobile devices share the same file? (a bit like delicious .. . mmmmhhhh )

The UI become a simple xml file which can be shared between desktop and mobile?

By: carmine cece jr

carmine cece jr — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:11:16 +0000

I was using opera 9.1.I liked everything about except just one thing.It dosn’t have a feature called inline autocomplete like I.E,Avant Browser and FireFox. Inline autocomplete store information that you type into web form fields. By storing this information, Internet Explorer can automatically fill in form fields if you begin to type the same information later.I hope the next version of opera haves this very usefull feature

By: sirnh1

sirnh1 — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:07:17 +0000

Maybe a way for ‘mobile devices’ and ‘desktop’ opera version to connect with each other…somehow…and if the desktop didn’t have internet access it could use the device to go online…

I know that this might not be possible, but it would be something ‘never seen’, no? It’s probebly something else though, something even better…

By: John Scott

John Scott — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:03:28 +0000

Opera does not provide support for third party browser extensions. This will be great for a next version.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:42:15 +0000

Investor, Ryan, I get hundreds of comments spam each day, so I hold some comments for moderation, such as ones with links and certain keywords that oftenly found in comment spam. Your comments contained links — I’ve approved them.