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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 f
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, a
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 first doesn't include the second (even if I've heard people say differently, it never worked that way for me).
That means the only workable way to manage your cookies in Opera is to start with a fresh Opera installation, allow all cookies, visit all sites from which you need cookies, disallow all new cookies. Stupid.
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 f
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:5, Interesting)
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, a
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:2)
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 first doesn't include the second (even if I've heard people say differently, it never worked that way for me).
That means the only workable way to manage your cookies in Opera is to start with a fresh Opera installation, allow all cookies, visit all sites from which you need cookies, disallow all new cookies. Stupid.