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Geek Culture / Opera 8

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MiR
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 12:36 Edited at: 31st Oct 2005 12:38
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The other day I found out that Opera had been released for free so yesterday I decided to download it as I remeber version 7 having good downloading abiltities (it´s pause and resume actually worked). After changing the style to a mimilist look and importing my bookmarks I must say that this is the by far the best brouser I´ve encounted. It makes Firefox look like it takes up too much space, it´s lightning fast both at loading and general working and has a very complete download manager. I´d recomend it to anyone who uses firefox for the fact it´s saves space or for tabbed brousing.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 12:40
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i may consider switching, but firefox is my friend

is opera using a much different renderer than firefox? i mean will all webpages look the same as in firefox?

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MiR
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 13:15 Edited at: 31st Oct 2005 13:15
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Quote: "is opera using a much different renderer than firefox? i mean will all webpages look the same as in firefox?"

From what I seen it seems to render pages the same. It says it complies with the web standards so it should act the same.... One thing I´vew noticed it the cursor jumps to the begining of (quote) or (code) after adding them.

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re faze
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 15:08
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firefox makes some pages look bugged, for example the page in my sig im working on for my friend looks bugged under firefox but it looks fine in ie.

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David R
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 15:16
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Don't you have to pay for Opera? Otherwise you get horrible banner ads built into it


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John Y
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 15:29
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No, 'tis free now.


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 23:48
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Quote: " may consider switching, but firefox is my friend

is opera using a much different renderer than firefox? i mean will all webpages look the same as in firefox?"


I made the switch, but then swtich back to firefox, I liked it, but seemed to run slow at times on my PC< but thats prolly just my PC, the persion who recommended it said it was slightly faster

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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 02:29
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How do I take my bookmarks for FF and put them in opera?


http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=63573&b=5
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JoelJ
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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 06:28 Edited at: 1st Nov 2005 06:31
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Quote: "firefox makes some pages look bugged, for example the page in my sig im working on for my friend looks bugged under firefox but it looks fine in ie."

actually, you're wrong. IE doesnt follow the standards, so Firefox displays them as they are suposed to be and IE displays in their own little gay standard

blech, I'm editing this post in opera, I don't like opera Gross.

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DARKGuy
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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 08:13
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Opera rocks anyways - it can save tab sessions, and the pause/resume/restart downloads -actually- works... Firefox's "download manager" (if it can even be called that) is SLOW (stupid fading) and the pause/resume fails 80% of the times...

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Jeku
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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 17:12
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The pause/resume features are dependant on the servers the file is downloaded from IIRC.

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MiR
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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 17:57
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Quote: "The pause/resume features are dependant on the servers the file is downloaded from IIRC."

I thought that but it must be something else as Opera handles it much better. For example, with Firefox downloading the videos from yahoogames was very hit and miss. I´d download something and find out that it finshes before it´s completely downloaded or just sits there doing nothing. Even when I pause and resume it nothing happens. With Opera these downloads work fine and you can carry on the download even after closing Opera (At least with v7 you could. I haven´t tried v8 with that yet)
Quote: "How do I take my bookmarks for FF and put them in opera?"

You export them in firefox as html and import them in Opera as html.

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JoelJ
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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 21:12
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easy fix to the FF download manager problem

Get another one

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David R
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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 21:12
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Yeah - flashget is pretty decent


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DARKGuy
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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 21:24
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Download Accelerator is free and pretty awesome too (no, not the DAP.. there's another free one with the kinda-same name)

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MiR
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2005 20:40
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I don´t know. Opera uses less screen space so I might keep it anyway. History isn´t very good though.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2005 22:36
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in opera,

you can press rmb and move up then down with your mouse, fast.
this will open a new tab and open the same page in that tab

you can also move left right fast while holdin rmb down.
it will close the tab

awesome effect, but dangerous.

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JoelJ
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2005 22:55
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in Firefox, if you download mouse gesters, it does the same, but better


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