Its not even a proper adblock, it only hides the images. Opera's adblock is pretty good and simple to use you just click on empty space and click block content and you block the ads you want. Also the link rabidch posted is fantastic, I never knew about this, thanks a lot.

YPang

United States4024 Posts

March 06 2010 17:07 GMT

#222

anyone know how to get out of user or author mode in opera?

edit: nvm fixed

snowbird

Germany2044 Posts

March 06 2010 17:23 GMT

#223

After using Opera for 2 days I'm back to Firefox.

Opera Pros:
- looks amazing and is space efficient
- feels faster and lighter than Firefox
- good features out of the box

Cons:
- no adblock, and the hosts file adblock sucks (doesn't work as good)
- some websites just don't work right and that annoys the hell out of me
- I had some problems with bookmarks
- I often had to reenter my password on some sites, even though I saved them, annoying.

I can't live with these Cons so it's back to good old FF to me. Only things I really miss are native speed dial and the cool UI.

Catyoul

France2377 Posts

March 07 2010 00:57 GMT

#224

Bleh, 10.5 is nice but I'm going back to 9.x, it's not stable enough for my taste.

rabidch

United States20289 Posts

March 07 2010 01:29 GMT

#225

On March 07 2010 09:57 Catyoul wrote:
Bleh, 10.5 is nice but I'm going back to 9.x, it's not stable enough for my taste.

Hasn't crashed on me yet.

YPang

United States4024 Posts

March 07 2010 01:31 GMT

#226

ive already transfeerd to opera 10.5 from chrome...

GG

rabidch

United States20289 Posts

March 07 2010 01:57 GMT

#227

for people who care about the 1 pixel "cant click the damned tab" at the top of the window
http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=9491

some other skins have already implemented this too but i linked the 10.5 default skin

semantics

10040 Posts

March 09 2010 03:07 GMT

#228

On March 07 2010 02:23 snowbird wrote:
After using Opera for 2 days I'm back to Firefox.

Opera Pros:
- looks amazing and is space efficient
- feels faster and lighter than Firefox
- good features out of the box

Cons:
- no adblock, and the hosts file adblock sucks (doesn't work as good)
- some websites just don't work right and that annoys the hell out of me
- I had some problems with bookmarks
- I often had to reenter my password on some sites, even though I saved them, annoying.

I can't live with these Cons so it's back to good old FF to me. Only things I really miss are native speed dial and the cool UI.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars
personally i only use hosts files that block sites known for malicious code i use it for security.

Manit0u

Poland17766 Posts

March 09 2010 06:50 GMT

#229

On March 09 2010 12:07 Virtue wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars
personally i only use hosts files that block sites known for malicious code i use it for security.

What a bullshit... I usually set ABP to allow my favorite sites for everything. Unless they introduce some god damned pop-ups or something which I will be forced to block manually.

EmeraldSparks

United States1451 Posts

March 10 2010 01:02 GMT

#230

I checked the link and the amount of entitlement-based whining is staggering.

"I like to look at your site without ads! Since you complained about it, I'll leave!"

"You should be able to run the site entirely off of donations!"

If you don't subscribe and you don't look at the ads, you use their server bandwidth and give them absolutely nothing in return and they would actually prefer that you leave and never come back.

Christ people are stupid.

Chunkybuddha

Canada347 Posts

March 10 2010 01:12 GMT

#231

On March 10 2010 10:02 EmeraldSparks wrote:
I checked the link and the amount of entitlement-based whining is staggering.

"I like to look at your site without ads! Since you complained about it, I'll leave!"

"You should be able to run the site entirely off of donations!"

If you don't subscribe and you don't look at the ads, you use their server bandwidth and give them absolutely nothing in return and they would actually prefer that you leave and never come back.

Christ people are stupid.

Who cares how they make their money, the less inconvenient my time on their site is, the more I'll use it; therefore I give them more hits, which feeds their bandwidth budget from advertisement. Win win if you ask me. Just look at teamliquid even... This site has very few ads and 90 per cent of the people here don't donate or give back anything. Seems like everything is doing ok though.

Anyway, I love Opera in all ways but one above Firefox. I don't like how java doesn't work half of the time. An example would be chess.com and their live feature. Oh well, I still use it.

EmeraldSparks

United States1451 Posts

March 10 2010 01:26 GMT

#232

On March 10 2010 10:12 Chunkybuddha wrote:

Show nested quote +

Sites do not get any advertising revenue from the pay-per-view advertisers (who can tell if their ads are not being displayed) if you visit them with an ad-blocker on. You win, they lose.

Also I have no idea how the finances of TL.net are run.

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

March 10 2010 01:54 GMT

#233

I'm making a genuine effort to try Opera as a replacement browser. It's fast, lightweight, but has some nasty issues.

- Redraw time is either instant or one second. Instant is too quick, you end up with badly rendered page that jumps all over the place as it loads, and one second is way too long. It needs to be configurable in milliseconds.

- Unable to import awesomebar / passwords from Firefox.

- Terrible ad blocking, blocked elements aren't collapsed leaving gaps all over the page.

- Tabs are big, can't fit as many tabs as FF.

- Odd missing elements when going back to a page that has been loaded for a while.

- Very poor behavior regarding bad SSL certs.

- Slightly odd rendering of some elements / CSS.

I'm hoping in time I'll get used to it as I'm growing tired of FF's ridiculous resource usage. A browser shouldn't feel slow on a 3 GHz Dual Core.

And another major one:

- Minimizing or not using the browser for a while seems to force it to deallocate memory so it takes forever to page back in.

offchance

United States15 Posts

March 11 2010 03:25 GMT

#234

i just went back to FF because opera is still too glitchy, java and some flash too, looks super cute though

i liked it a lot hope it gets fixed

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

March 11 2010 22:39 GMT

#235

10.5 has serious problems. After a concerted effort to try and use it, it's just too buggy. It has what appears to be a serious memory leak or other memory management problem, causing excessive pagefile usage that gets worse the longer the browser is open.

Catyoul

France2377 Posts

March 11 2010 23:15 GMT

#236

See, R1CH agrees with me :p
Try the last 9.x version, it's better in that respect : http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=windows&ver=9.64&local=y

MoltkeWarding

5195 Posts

March 11 2010 23:28 GMT

#237

Am I the only person for whom youtube will not load?

Edit: Apparently the solution was deleting all my youtube cookies.

niteReloaded

Croatia5282 Posts

March 11 2010 23:29 GMT

#238

R1CH, I wonder what you think of Google Chrome?

Poly325

United States99 Posts

March 11 2010 23:40 GMT

#239

On March 06 2010 15:35 Stormscion wrote:
I use Opera and Chrome as support ... before chrome i used FF as support ... i like opera a lot , mouse gestures and middle mouse scroll , and its fast and you don't need to thinker with extensions , FF out of box dont offer anything , yes you can make monster if you add like 100 extensions but i get all i need from opera instal so i dont need to think about that ... for people who need more i guess FF is best ... for me atm its opera then chrome tbh.

you do realize that Chrome has middle mouse scroll as well right? and if you hold the shift key, it'll scroll from left to right too. that's something that opera doesn't have and i really like in chrome cause i always have multiple windows open.