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One feature I got hooked on back in the day was auto-URL completion by using Ctrl. So you type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter, and the url would automagically become http://www.google.com/ [google.com] . Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter.org, and Shift+Enter.net. Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would fail and then try.com, and by the time it got around to getting the url right, I could just type it in by hand. I think it would be nice to at least be able to turn this feature on.
The real reason I moved back to Firefox after I tried Opera (and I gave it a good month) was because one day, Gmail just stopped working. On different days, both at work and at home, I could not log back into Gmail no matter what I did (short of reinstalling Opera, because I'm just too lazy to do that). This also happened to a coworker; he switched back too.
I also miss the Ctrl-Enter shortcut from other browsers.
In regards to Gmail, I've found that setting Opera to clear the cache upon exit greatly decreases the amount of times it hands at the "loading..." page. I believe it has something to do with how Opera caches the scripts on gmail.com, and this workaround has made it almost never happen anymore.
Better method: Set gmail.google.com, mail.google.com, and gmail.com to 1 in the ua.ini (on Windows, C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\ua.ini, on Linux ~/.opera/profile/ua.ini).
The real reason I moved back to Firefox after I tried Opera (and I gave it a good month) was because one day, Gmail just stopped working. On different days, both at work and at home, I could not log back into Gmail no matter what I did (short of reinstalling Opera, because I'm just too lazy to do that). This also happened to a coworker; he switched back too.
Same here. I actually have Opera and Firefox installed on my machine. I *try* to use Opera since it sounds promising, but it always fails on Javascri
When using Opera, I don't understand why people type 'www.google.com' and then enter the search after that page loads. To search for "foobar" using google, I just type this in the URL bar (works for both Firefox and Opera):
g foobar
This is something I configured in Firefox so I'm not sure if Opera does this by default or if it imported this from my Firefox settings.
Also, there's the 'google search' field next to the URL bar but then I'd have to remember another shortcut key.
Default behavior. This is also configurable in Opera, but unsupported (google "opsed" for the easy way). Another neat thing about Opera is being able to set nicknames for bookmarks; I have "slash" for this site, "sa" for somethingawful, and several other nicknames. You can also do this with folders; "com" opens up all bookmarks in my webcomics folder. Check it out. The address bar is very useful. One nitpick I had with Firefox the last time I tried it was that opening a new tab didn't immediately register m
I could not log back into Gmail no matter what I did
I used to have problems with logging into sites on Opera. There was a period of time when I had to log into my.opera.com using Firefox (oh, the irony!). It turns out that Opera's behind-the-scenes cookie management is not always intuitive.
I wrote up my findings [hyperborea.org] last summer, but the basic issue is with cookie permissions. "Treat as specified in Server Manager" seems to ignore any cookies that you haven't explicitly allowed in the Manage Cookies dialog, and some sites require you to accept third-party cookies. From what I can tell, there are situations in which site1.example.com sets a cookie for example.com (so that site2.example.com can read it), but the cookie is interpreted as a third-party cookie, so if you have told Opera to block third-party cookies it'll just ignore the cookie, preventing you from logging in.
I think the cookie management is one of the major flaws of Opera.
I really like the browser but why oh why can't they simply copy Firefox, Konqueror or half a dozen other browsers?
If they'd only change the fact that the cookie dialog always defaults to the same value, not the one you chose the last time. So most times you have to use the dropdown menu (in itself slower than bullet points) and most times you also have to disallow both cookies and third party cookies for any given domain because somehow the
The real reason I moved back to Firefox after I tried Opera (and I gave it a good month) was because one day, Gmail just stopped working. On different days, both at work and at home, I could not log back into Gmail no matter what I did (short of reinstalling Opera, because I'm just too lazy to do that). This also happened to a coworker; he switched back too.
I have an even better idea. If you like Opera, it'd probably be easier to search for your problem [opera.com] rather than customize a different browser. The Ope
Is it THAT MUCH TROUBLE to type in.com? I mean, seriously. I have myself so trained to type in.net,.com, or.org after a URL, I'd save about 1/10 of a second by doing a Shift-Ctrl-Enter chord.
Translation: a queer effect of a browser I got used to doesn't work in Opera. Can you implement, bugtest, QA, and deploy a feature that me and three other people will use?
> Translation: a queer effect of a browser I got used to > doesn't work in Opera. Can you implement, bugtest, QA, and > deploy a feature that me and three other people will use?
It's a trivial fix. It's handy and an obvious feature to implement. It's not just.com it adds but the http www stuff on the left too. Computers exist to make life easier for the user, not vice versa!
Actually, I understand people wanting that feature, and if Opera wouldn't be pigheaded, their current keyboard mapping ability *could* allow it if they didn't disallow certain random keys (like enter) from being mapped. That all said, if you turn off another stupid default (the check for local lan addresses) which should be off by default... then finding www.foo.com from foo is instaneous.
And if you are going to sites frequently, I find (for instance) that setting a bookmark with a nickname is much faster.
I would guess other browsers are similar, but in Safari, I type usually 1 or 2 characters in my address bar after typing Apple-L to load the location. If its a site I've been to recently or is bookmarked, I'm there. If its a new site, I hit tab and then put the company name in the google search and the first link will usually suffice. Having to press shift+control+enter takes me about the same time as pressing.org. Having to press shift+enter is about the same as typing.net. Having to remember 1 to 2 c
type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter [...] Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter.org, and Shift+Enter.net
But not on Macs. I've never been able to get these tricks to work on the Mac, which sucks because I use them all the time on my Windows machines. But then Safari is more than good enough, so... I wish it had this feature, though.
Safari has had autocomplete built-in for a while. Start typing in the address bar and it shows a progressively-shrinking drop-down menu of matching urls from your history & bookmarks, sorted by frequency of visit.
Even better, go install the Sogudi extension. You get a customizable list of search engines and abbreviations, so that you can type "goo britney spears" or "mov king kong" or "amz oprah book club" and immediately get the google, imdb, or amazon results for those queries. Comes with about a
Yes, I'm aware of all that. The Firefox autocomplete which we were talking about is different, and something I wish Safari could also do, for those sites which I don't visit often enough to have in my bookmarks or history, or for those times when I want to go to a sogudi site's front page rather than search it. It's a silly little thing, only not having to type in "www." and ".com" or ".org" or ".net" - but it's usually the silly little things that one misses.
Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would fail and then try.com, and by the time it got around to getting the url right, I could just type it in by hand. I think it would be nice to at least be able to turn this feature on.
Better yet, just search from Opera address bar. Type "g kerneltrap" into the address bar, hit Enter, and voila - Google search results page. Of course this doesn't apply if all you want is the Google home page, but person
One feature I got hooked on back in the day was auto-URL completion by using Ctrl.
I thought that was an IE-introduced feature. It's certainly been there for ages longer than moz. I have never paid much attention to opera because I don't feel like paying for a web browser, and unless you are on a POS computer, the speed issue is pretty irrelevant, so I don't know where that feature came from for sure.
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URL Autocomplete (Score:4, Insightful)
One feature I got hooked on back in the day was auto-URL completion by using Ctrl. So you type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter, and the url would automagically become http://www.google.com/ [google.com] . Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter .org, and Shift+Enter .net. Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would fail and then try .com, and by the time it got around to getting the url right, I could just type it in by hand. I think it would be nice to at least be able to turn this feature on.
The real reason I moved back to Firefox after I tried Opera (and I gave it a good month) was because one day, Gmail just stopped working. On different days, both at work and at home, I could not log back into Gmail no matter what I did (short of reinstalling Opera, because I'm just too lazy to do that). This also happened to a coworker; he switched back too.
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In regards to Gmail, I've found that setting Opera to clear the cache upon exit greatly decreases the amount of times it hands at the "loading..." page. I believe it has something to do with how Opera caches the scripts on gmail.com, and this workaround has made it almost never happen anymore.
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Same here. I actually have Opera and Firefox installed on my machine. I *try* to use Opera since it sounds promising, but it always fails on Javascri
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:1, Informative)
To search for "foobar" using google, I just type this in the URL bar (works for both Firefox and Opera):
g foobar
This is something I configured in Firefox so I'm not sure if Opera does this by default or if it imported this from my Firefox settings.
Also, there's the 'google search' field next to the URL bar but then I'd have to remember another shortcut key.
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Me, I just use the search box in both.
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I used to have problems with logging into sites on Opera. There was a period of time when I had to log into my.opera.com using Firefox (oh, the irony!). It turns out that Opera's behind-the-scenes cookie management is not always intuitive.
I wrote up my findings [hyperborea.org] last summer, but the basic issue is with cookie permissions. "Treat as specified in Server Manager" seems to ignore any cookies that you haven't explicitly allowed in the Manage Cookies dialog, and some sites require you to accept third-party cookies. From what I can tell, there are situations in which site1.example.com sets a cookie for example.com (so that site2.example.com can read it), but the cookie is interpreted as a third-party cookie, so if you have told Opera to block third-party cookies it'll just ignore the cookie, preventing you from logging in.
Hope this helps
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I really like the browser but why oh why can't they simply copy Firefox, Konqueror or half a dozen other browsers?
If they'd only change the fact that the cookie dialog always defaults to the same value, not the one you chose the last time. So most times you have to use the dropdown menu (in itself slower than bullet points) and most times you also have to disallow both cookies and third party cookies for any given domain because somehow the
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:2, Interesting)
I have an even better idea. If you like Opera, it'd probably be easier to search for your problem [opera.com] rather than customize a different browser. The Ope
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:1, Informative)
Click to edit a keyboard setup. Then go to advanced\edit widget. Here you will add the shortcuts for autocomplete
For example you can set the input context/shortcut as "alt+f3" and set the actions as:
Go to line end & Insert, ".org" & Go to line start & Insert, "www." & Go
This will add www and
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Translation: a queer effect of a browser I got used to doesn't work in Opera. Can you implement, bugtest, QA, and deploy a feature that me and three other people will use?
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> doesn't work in Opera. Can you implement, bugtest, QA, and
> deploy a feature that me and three other people will use?
It's a trivial fix. It's handy and an obvious feature to implement. It's not just
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That all said, if you turn off another stupid default (the check for local lan addresses) which should be off by default
And if you are going to sites frequently, I find (for instance) that setting a bookmark with a nickname is much faster.
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I would guess other browsers are similar, but in Safari, I type usually 1 or 2 characters in my address bar after typing Apple-L to load the location. If its a site I've been to recently or is bookmarked, I'm there. If its a new site, I hit tab and then put the company name in the google search and the first link will usually suffice.
Having to press shift+control+enter takes me about the same time as pressing
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But not on Macs. I've never been able to get these tricks to work on the Mac, which sucks because I use them all the time on my Windows machines. But then Safari is more than good enough, so... I wish it had this feature, though.
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Even better, go install the Sogudi extension. You get a customizable list of search engines and abbreviations, so that you can type "goo britney spears" or "mov king kong" or "amz oprah book club" and immediately get the google, imdb, or amazon results for those queries. Comes with about a
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Better yet, just search from Opera address bar. Type "g kerneltrap" into the address bar, hit Enter, and voila - Google search results page. Of course this doesn't apply if all you want is the Google home page, but person
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I thought that was an IE-introduced feature. It's certainly been there for ages longer than moz. I have never paid much attention to opera because I don't feel like paying for a web browser, and unless you are on a POS computer, the speed issue is pretty irrelevant, so I don't know where that feature came from for sure.