Opera is a web browser and internet suite developed by the Norwegian Opera Software company. It is a high quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded internet products. The Opera browser offers the user a unique experience with a different functionality, security, usability and accessing the web. Here are some of the things that started my romance with Opera:
Efficient surfing
Transfer Manager is one of the highlights of using Opera, it’s stable and it opens in the next tab unlike other browsers that open a new mini window.
Tabbed browsing which is also found in other web browsers is found in Opera.
Password manager: Opera has a password manager which remembers all your usernames and passwords for you.
Searching: One can search different stuff under one search field which means that you can search Google, Yahoo, Answers.Com, Amazon.com and others.
Mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts: Just like all other browsers, Opera has keyboard shortcuts which can be good for saving time and jumping to the needed stuff, and it also supports mouse gestures which can allow you to access commonly used features.
Notes: You can keep notes of websites that you want to refer to later or that have information that you might need.
Customization: Skins give you the power for the look and feel that you want by giving it icons and colours that suit you. It also comes up in a number of languages and you can change it to suit your language.
Special Features: If I am to do a presentation and I need to use the web, I can change the projection of Opera to full screen mode using the F11 key, and it can be used by internet cafes as it allows for lock down mode for unattended computers.
Mail, chat and web development: Opera has its own mail, which is an email program and news reader. When it comes to web development it supports all web standards like HTML 4.1+.
Security and privacy features: Under privacy and security features Opera gives you the power to delete privacy settings as soon as you exit the browser. It also offers a 256 bit encryption which is quite good in terms of web browsing. Opera gives you power of the cookies, which ones to accept or delete. One of the pluses of using Opera is that it protects the user from information phishing and other security threats.
I would say Opera offers a secure and stable environment which keeps you away from viruses and the web’s prying eyes. When it comes to speed I would say its super fast especially when you’re working with downloads, and lastly, you can customise it and give it the feel and look you want. Looking at all of the above I think my romance with Opera is just blossoming into a full relationship.
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9 Responses to “My love for Opera”
Joseph,
What do you mean by “efficient surfing”?
Doesn’t Firefox do all these things, too? (except for the notes function, which sounds cool)
i use opera. i’m glad i’m not the only person in south africa who does.
opera can find its way around connectivity issues in some places that even firefox cannot, which is also nice.
however, running gmail in opera can be problematic. [and running gmail in firefox can be just as bad as well.]
i download a lot for my work, and for many of the sites from which i download, opera is superior to even firefox. i try not to run M$ internet products on my computer, as most viruses and worms are written for them.
i’m actually quite clad that they have gone back to giving it away rather than charging for it, courtesy of the deal they have done with yahoo.
one of the nice things that opera does and that firefox does not is that you get a mini blurb of the page when you pass the mouse over each tab. in firefox you have to commit to clicking on the tab to remember what was on the page.
i like that opera isn’t as resource hungry as either firefox or IE, even when you have 10-15 tabs going, as i often do. [there’s a caveat to that: if one of those tabs is gmail, you’re toast. but that’s true across all browsers.]
joseph, have you used lynx? or safari on a pc? i didn’t know the latter was available for pc until very recently. i’ll probably be testing it out later this week.
ah something i forgot, and it goes back to gmail in opera.
gmail chat in opera: don’t do it. open firefox for that.
another thing that takes some adjusting is that popups that you are using [as if, you open a gmail chat in a popup or have other websites that run chats in popups] must be found via control+tab instead of by alt+tab. it takes a while to get used to.
but, it’s nice that, in opera, when you right click on a link, it gives you the option to open the page in either a background tab [which is more or less the default for ffx] as well as a new immediate tab. i like that it gives 3 options, basically. [new tab, background tab, new window]. nifty.
Thank you very much for the support on Opera, really appreciated. I hope they fix the google problem and then it will be perfect. The downloads are more stable than in any other browser. I have tried safari on my machine which is running Vista and its very grey, not appealing tot he eye like other browsers. I havent worked with Lynx yet but i hope to give it a shot in the next few days….
vista. ugh. i’m really upset that in south africa you almost no longer have the option of buying a NEW computer that is running xp. i *knew* i should have picked up a new laptop when i was in the states [where you can].
as you know, getting a vista machine and downgrading to xp voids the warranty. this is a problem.
Well, guys, thanks for the heads-up! Perhaps I’ll give Opera a try when they sort out the Gmail functionality (my gmail tab is permanently open). For now, though, Firefox (3 beta 5) is rocking my world…
(Perhaps you won’t care, but perhaps you’d be interested to know that Firefox are trying to set a world download record when they release Firefox 3 - apparently sometime in June.)
I only used Opera once and just to open my home page, and to my horror 12MB of my databundle was consumed (as opposed to approx 120 KB on average) ,due to that unfortunately we had to part ways (Opera and I)…
Firefox saved the day though…
I have to give Opera props when it comes to cellphone web browsers, mainly because you can view the entire webpage on ur small cellphone display, and zoom in to what ever you want to view on the page
I don’t see a single feature advantage over Firefox. You talk about tab previews and this has been taken care of in the form of plugins, see TAB SCOPE.
I think that the plugin culture that Firefox has established makes it a leader in the browser sphere. It’s a pity that IE dominates market share!
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Joseph Misika is a Web Applications Developer at the Mail & Guardian Online. He has been working there for a year now but has been playing around with web applications for 6 years.
A student at heart and always looking to learn new stuff. He is currently focused on web development, linux( think there is more to linux than we know) and gaming (Playstation). His interests range from sports to development. In the future looking to build a media & technology empire. Favourite teams are Mamelodi Sundowns (SA) and Manchester United (Abroad).
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Joseph,
What do you mean by “efficient surfing”?
Doesn’t Firefox do all these things, too? (except for the notes function, which sounds cool)
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