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Are you using Opera on the Mac?

Published July 19th, 2007 10:41 AM EDT By Daniel Goldman

If you’re using Opera on the Mac, you most definitely want to head over to the Desktop Team blog and read some exciting news.

The Mac team at Opera has been working on lots of changes to the UI and behavior of Opera on Macs. Opera’s skin, for example, has been improved to conform to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines.

We’ve heard lots of feedback from Opera users on Macs about the UI and how it doesn’t “fit in”. We’re listening.

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  1. 1 breun Jul 19th, 2007 at 10:54 am
    using Opera Opera 9.22 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    I am most certainly using Opera on a Mac and I’d love to see Opera be more Mac-like on OS X. Looking forward to it! Although a brushed metal skin might be a little late, since Apple is ditching brushed metal in OS X 10.5 Leopard.

  2. 2 Adrian Lee Jul 19th, 2007 at 10:56 am
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows XP

    While I was using a Mac, I was quite pleased that using Opera was pretty similar to Windows, the general things like keyboard shortcuts and general programme things aside.

    But then, I was hardly a willing Mac user, and I’ll shut up before I start the whole PC/Mac thing :)

  3. 3 Mike Haugland Jul 19th, 2007 at 11:03 am
    using Opera Opera 9.22 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    This is good news. I actually preferred the Mac version over the Windows version since I got it, but there have been a few things which have bothersome. Let’s hope this preview is going to impress!

  4. 4 comnut Jul 19th, 2007 at 11:43 am
    using Opera Opera 9.22 on Windows Windows 98

    MAC fans please NOTE!!

    there are hundreds of skins available, just by the ‘appearance’ dialog..
    Shift+F12, Skin, find more skins.. you can download a new skin, try it *real time*, and if you dont like it, just say no…

    If you say yes, it saves it, and you can change back later…

    there are also fill info on How to make your own!!

    my.opera.com/community/dev/skin/

  5. 5 Cyro Jul 19th, 2007 at 11:45 am
    using Safari Safari 522.13.1 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    Excellent news!

  6. 6 still no sign in.. Jul 19th, 2007 at 11:50 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0 on Windows Windows 98

    and it still hates ‘mask as IE’

    “You were temporarily blocked because your Web browser used a false User-Agent string. Reset your User-Agent to its default setting and try your request again.”

    But of course this does not apply to a “false User-Agent string” saying firefox…

  7. 7 Chuck Monroe Jul 19th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.22 on Windows Windows Vista

    What’s up with all these Windows 98 users! First time I have seen so many in a single thread…

  8. 8 XP1 Jul 19th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows Vista

    I wish I had a Mac.

  9. 9 Ryan Wagner Jul 19th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.22 on Windows Windows Vista

    Darn…I thought we might actually get a more firm date as to when to expect the weekly builds. :)

  10. 10 Max Jul 19th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu Linux

    Good job. Now do it with GTK (Linux). Right now it uses QT, and while that’s great and all, it looks terrible in Gnome. I’ve tried skins too, none of them come close to the real thing.

  11. 11 kL Jul 19th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    Yay! I’m waiting for some mac-love in Opera for a long time now!

  12. 12 comnut Jul 19th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0 on Windows Windows 98

    you will need to ask Junyor on the blog about ‘when’… I think he *hoped* for a few weeks, but then something went wrong…. :(

    there are a lot of win98 guys out there.. its much safer, because its ‘forgotten’ by the hackers…

  13. 13 Ilgaz Jul 21st, 2007 at 3:42 am
    using OmniWeb OmniWeb on Mac OS Mac OS X

    “Skin” or UI was never a big deal. The real big deal is lack of OS X technologies like Keychain, Colorsync and native font rendering.

    The UI/Skin easily fixed, keychain and font rendering are real issues.

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