24 Comments

1. 1 decimal May 9th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
   using Opera 2.12 on Windows 95

   Cool, at last!

   Now i’ve got a real reason to upgrade my browser

2. 2 Daniel Goldman May 9th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
   using Opera 9.50 on Windows XP

   decimal, you must be kidding. Windows 95?

3. 3 William May 9th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

   LOL. He probably just went to some older versions website and downloaded it for fun.

4. 4 kyleabaker May 10th, 2007 at 12:37 am
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows Server 2003

   Nice blog entry Daniel, lol. Glad to see that the blog entries are picking up once again! They seemed to have slowed down over the past few months, but once again the Opera related news begins to flow. Thanks.

5. 5 kyleabaker May 10th, 2007 at 12:47 am
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows Server 2003

   By the way, I’m actually on Windows XP Pro 64-bit, not Server 2003. Your server seems to be interpreting my OS incorrectly.

   “Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is based upon Windows Server 2003 SP1 (build 5.2.3790.1830), as that was the latest version of Microsoft Windows during the operating system’s development, but takes Windows XP as its name.”
   Wikipedia: Windows XP Pro 64-bit

   By the way..Windows 95 was awesome, lol, j/k. So many bugs. :\ Atleast it’s not 3.x, lol.

6. 6 David Naylor May 10th, 2007 at 1:40 am
   using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP

   lol

7. 7 eburhan May 10th, 2007 at 2:24 am
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

   Very cleverly

8. 8 Øyvind Ø (at work) May 10th, 2007 at 3:08 am
   using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP

   Or changed ISP (or what it is called) in about:config to what he wanted to trick your UA detection.

   - ØØ -

9. 9 Tobbi May 10th, 2007 at 3:11 am
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

   I agree with him

   Greets,
   Tobbi

10. 10 Dasch May 10th, 2007 at 3:35 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Mac OS X

    lol
    Maybe Opera comes in Future as an addon for Firefox? No, Opera is too big. First the other way around.

11. 11 Jezetha May 10th, 2007 at 3:53 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

    Very funny!!!

12. 12 Adrian Lee May 10th, 2007 at 5:53 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

    Heh, as soon as I tried Speed Dial I made a comment to some people at work that’d it’d be the next Opera feature to get an FF extension.

    They reckoned they couldn’t see the point in it at the time (they are all FF fans) but I’ll be amused if any of them install the extension

13. 13 Rhonnysparks May 10th, 2007 at 8:08 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

    I installed the extension and I can say that it should be renamed to just “Dial” coz there is nothing speedy about it. Besides the fact that it looks not as nice as Opera’s implementation, it is just on the whole laggier; laggy to open speed dial, laggy to click on the bookmark and go to the page (even when using the CTRL+number shortcut) but that just might be firefox’s fault and not the add-on’s. It also took me awhile to realise that u can’t add pages to the speed dial but clicking on the number but have to right click on a tab or page and add it there. I applaud the author’s effort, but it’s not a substitute for opera’s speed dial.

14. 14 Khaled Khalil May 10th, 2007 at 8:41 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Linux

    i tried those two ff extentions (showcase & ff speed dial) just now, and to be frank, i liked them a lot, ff speed dial is very similar to opera’s one (also pages are limited to 9 like opera’s), showcase is exactly the page switcher opera needs, very neat, and opera is much more serious about tabed browsing across huge sessions
    if this is only the difference between the two browsers, i think i would prefer ff.
    while opera team really inovate, firefox has the extentions capability, and lets every one the oportunity to make his own extention, thus work go in parallel and feature like this don’t disturb firefox team to be implemented.
    i think opera take a very huge overload to compete ff and ie with their extentios and toolbar, and even konqueror has his plugin from the kde.
    i think if opera implemented extentions soon (like Adrian Lee suggested), it will be the fastest browser … to gain marketshare

    @decimal
    2.12 ?!!?
    from where did you get it ?
    the first ever i heard about was 3.21, (you can find it here: http://arc.opera.com/pub/opera/win/321/french/), but even that wasn’t the first i used, when i heard about opera the first time it was version ~5.x (windows also)
    but the opera musiumitself don’t have your version!!
    or you are working for opera long time ago and that was an alpha ?
    another option before i get mad, you may edited the browser identification yourself ?

15. 15 Steve May 10th, 2007 at 9:20 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

    Wow I was just cracking up yesterday reading over that comment yesterday and lo and behold I find it here. I also liked http://digg.com/software/Get_Opera_like_Speed_Dial_Feature_in_Firefox#c6595819

16. 16 decimal May 10th, 2007 at 9:55 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

    i’m using windows xp, using opera 2.12 automatically gives windows 95 as os, very funny

17. 17 decimal May 10th, 2007 at 9:59 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

    Khaled Khalid:
    i took it from there:
    http://browsers.evolt.org/

    is indexing almost all old browsers of the web, even those that never ‘existed’.

18. 18 Mike May 10th, 2007 at 10:58 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

    Isn’t calling this FF extension “Speed Dial” a bit risky though, as on the Opera homepage it shows that “Speed Dial” is a trademark of Opera?

19. 19 comnut May 10th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows 98

    well it would depend how limp opera is…

20. 20 Ilgaz May 11th, 2007 at 7:46 am
    using OmniWeb on Mac OS X

    Just count the months before a Firefox fanatic claims that was a Firefox invented feature %)

21. 21 Khaled Khalil May 11th, 2007 at 9:15 am
    using Opera 2.12

    thanks decimal

    Ilgaz, months, i think there is already some people in spread ff comunity think that it is firefox’s innocation

22. 22 EC May 11th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP

    @Operawatch:

    Maybe you should turn on Digg’s Profanity filter, you wouldn’t have seen that stuff…

23. 23 so.what May 12th, 2007 at 6:44 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows 98

    Ilgaz, Khaled Khalil: yup, thats what happens when you dont stand up fer yerself…

24. 24 yokey May 15th, 2007 at 1:12 am
    using Opera 9.21 on Windows XP

    I like Speed Dial and like creating work good from Opera. I adhere to the trend of Opera very that 7 year. I believe in finally Opera will reach the goal.