Opera 7...
Hi guys,
For all you Opera lovers, a beta version of Opera 7 is out now. I haven't tried it yet myself but they say there is a new email client and a changed interface.
PS. There are so many different forums I never know which one to start a thread under so please feel free to move this if It's in the wrong forum.
Cheers.
Megan posted this at 15:24 — 13th November 2002.
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Oh goody goody! Thank you for posting this!! I'm off to download it straightaway...
Man, there must be tons of people trying to get to their site - it's really slow right now.
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The Webmistress posted this at 15:32 — 13th November 2002.
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Can you have more than one version of opera?
Megan posted this at 15:43 — 13th November 2002.
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Yes - same as Netscape, just install it in another directory. The only browser that has problems with multiple versions is IE, since it's so tied into the OS.
ALready I've noticed a couple of bugs fixed (specifically a problem with flash not handling files stored in external directories)
I don't particularly like th enew chrome, but that can always be changed. They've added a few new things to the hotlist (history, transfers, and windows) which is nice. That's all I've noticed so far... I'll have to find a page with a dhtml menu that didn't work before, because their handling of the DOM is supposed to have been fixed, so there should be greater compatibility in that area.
edit: Cool! YOu can also make any webpage to a hotlist panel...
Sorry about the type-os here, I'm really excited...
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Megan posted this at 15:57 — 13th November 2002.
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To add:
As a sidenote - the Toronto Star page at thestar.com just came out the other day - it really irritates me to know that someone probably got paid big money to make such a badly coded page.
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The Webmistress posted this at 16:16 — 13th November 2002.
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Well it sounds like O7 has one huge fan already! I'll download it later and who knows I might like it as well
Megan posted this at 16:29 — 13th November 2002.
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It's kind of funny, because before I read this post this morning I was actually thinking about giving mozilla a chance. Ack! The betrayal! I just paid for Opera the other night, how could I think of switching??? But with Opera 7 I am in love again... so beautiful with this healthy green glow.... or purple glow, I can't decide...
Oh, does anyone know what's up with the new built-in navigation bar they have here? It's got the following options: home, index, contents, search, glossary, help, next, previous, first, last, up, copyright, author - is this accessing meta tags or xml schema or what? Some of those would logically move through the file structure I guess. Seems like a really useful addition and I can see some other options that could be added here (privacy statements, security, availability etc.). It's only available on a few pages right now (you can set it to auto, so it'll only show on pages that support it, or top/bottom/left/right as the other toolbars are).
(I would try to go look this up but I'm supposed to be working not playing with Opera here!
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Busy posted this at 20:55 — 13th November 2002.
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Megan did you buy Opera6 or 7?
If 6, apart from no ads, any different?
I used opera for a while but got sick of all the chinese ads that I couldnt even read and the ocassional lock up (but handy options like browse where you last were helped) so switched to mozilla
Megan posted this at 21:00 — 13th November 2002.
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I never saw Chinese ads on there - that's funny, but then I adapted after awhile and stopped paying attention to them for the most part.
I bought 6 because they had a sale on (and upgrade to v. 7 came included). All registration does is get rid of the banner ad, so yeah v. 6 unregistered is the same as v.6 registered.
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The Webmistress posted this at 07:42 — 14th November 2002.
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So is it really worth buying it if you can learn to ignore the banner ads?
zollet posted this at 07:55 — 14th November 2002.
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I found a little bug. Maybe it's just my computer, I don't know. But if you have a page with background image and the page content only covers prats of the page (vertically), then the rest will be white (the background doesn't show).
PS. Sorry about the cut picture. It's a project I'm working on that is yet not complete. Maybe I'll post it here when it's done for review.
Megan posted this at 14:10 — 14th November 2002.
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Maybe I wasn't clear above - if you buy it, the banner ads go away. I think that all of the extra user interface features are worth putting up with the banner ads, if you want to put it that way.
Zollet - I guess we have to remember that v.7 is still in beta so surely there will be problems
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zollet posted this at 16:47 — 14th November 2002.
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Of course. Just letting you guys know of my discovery
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