Okay, the newest annoyance is the facebook ads. The hosts file provided earlier in the thread did nothing to keep them from appearing. The images accompanying the ads have gone but the text and links remain, and trying to block the appropriate content through the "inspect element" -> preferences -> blocked content did nothing but disable facebook chat. Any ideas?

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

March 03 2010 11:44 GMT

#143

I just downloaded it and it's fast, but so far it's not faster than Chrome for me. Unfortunately, Chrome + Win7 x64 has always had really weird hiccup lag for me, which has made it unusable.

It's a shame, since it ran so well on Vista x64.

mel_ee

2448 Posts

March 03 2010 12:22 GMT

#144

long time opera fan here, I must say I love the new opera!

one thing about the 10.5 that might not be a big deal to others is the fonts for asian languages (korean)...

i cannot seem to change it and when I read korean it doesnt look the same as the opera 9 default font. I have no idea how to change this..

edit: nvm..it is there just the name isnt "korean" its under "hangul" in the international font options..however facebook still displays it stretched out for some reason..

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

March 03 2010 12:40 GMT

#145

Bleh, not really a fan of this. I used to be an Opera user back in 7, but this just doesn't do it for me anymore. I could probably tweak it a bit (although I'm not sure how much you can really do to it) but I don't really want to. I just want Chrome to work normally again.

EDIT: Holy god, I fixed it!

Pakje

Belgium288 Posts

March 03 2010 12:41 GMT

#146

does anyone know how you can get history come first instad of "search the web"

Chuiu

3470 Posts

March 03 2010 14:01 GMT

#147

Type 'h' before you type anything else in the address bar.

snotboogie

Australia3550 Posts

March 04 2010 03:19 GMT

#148

Does anyone know how to turn the transparency off?

HaruHaru

United States988 Posts

March 04 2010 03:45 GMT

#149

does anyone know how to get the "Find in Page" functionality back. I accidentally deleted it in my list of search engines now i dont know how to get it back D:

StayFrosty

Canada743 Posts

March 04 2010 04:23 GMT

#150

I'm such a Firefox diehard it's gonna be hard to even consider anything else. Hmmmm maybe i'll check this out though. Graphs with cool colours really hook me in lol

Smorrie

Netherlands2922 Posts

March 04 2010 04:30 GMT

#151

I'm surprised to see there actually are so many Opera fans!

I'd say the bottleneck of loading most of the websites I visit is due to the download speed rather than the rendering speed though. I'm pretty sure that counts for almost everyone. I have enough browsers installed already >.<

I'm also very skeptical towards the graph in the OP. If I remember clearly Opera's performance at v.10.x (I can't remember which it was) was pretty poor, doing worse than FireFox at that moment. While I don't doubt they improved it (since the new js engine is supposedly to be really good) I find it hard to believe that it actually jumped so far ahead of Chrome. Anyway, I know FF isn't the fastest around, but their Add-on's still rock the best out of all other browsers. I don't really care too much whether Opera is able to render a page faster when I can hardly notice it in a practical fashion. I know I won't be changing browsers anytime soon.

SoLaR[i.C]

United States2969 Posts

March 04 2010 04:57 GMT

#152

Edit: NM! Found that the default setting in Opera is for "smooth scrolling". I HATE that.

Edit: I timed 20 random websites with a stopwatch and Chrome is still faster. Sticking with Chrome for general browsing.

SleepSheep

Canada344 Posts

March 04 2010 05:14 GMT

#153

FastEddieV

United States614 Posts

March 04 2010 05:21 GMT

#154

I'm loving the options this browser has. Most of the widgets so far are disappointing (the chat widget looks worse than AIM Express, I prefer the resource-hogging version with ads to this; the sudoku widget is completely awful; the crossword widget doesn't even connect to what it says it will) but a few are nice, like twitter and google translate.

The lack of alt-text on images gets to me. Maybe there's an addon that fixes this as there was with Firefox.

SleepSheep

Canada344 Posts

March 04 2010 05:47 GMT

#155

On March 04 2010 13:30 Smorrie wrote:
I'm surprised to see there actually are so many Opera fans!

I'd say the bottleneck of loading most of the websites I visit is due to the download speed rather than the rendering speed though. I'm pretty sure that counts for almost everyone. I have enough browsers installed already >.<

I'm also very skeptical towards the graph in the OP. If I remember clearly Opera's performance at v.10.x (I can't remember which it was) was pretty poor, doing worse than FireFox at that moment. While I don't doubt they improved it (since the new js engine is supposedly to be really good) I find it hard to believe that it actually jumped so far ahead of Chrome. Anyway, I know FF isn't the fastest around, but their Add-on's still rock the best out of all other browsers. I don't really care too much whether Opera is able to render a page faster when I can hardly notice it in a practical fashion. I know I won't be changing browsers anytime soon.

yeah i was thinking the same too initially, i was pretty content with chrome. after a day using opera though there's no way i'm going back to chrome. it's not the speed so much as the features like mouse gestures, speed dial, security, and general layout that i like. i literally spent an hour doing nothing but opening and closing random websites practicing browser "hotkeys" since i was enjoying the mechanics of it so much. i guess it's the combination of those built in features and the speed that makes me okay with it not having the best adon support.

Fontong

United States6454 Posts

March 04 2010 09:37 GMT

#156

Wow this is so awesomely fast for me

cooooool

snowbird

Germany2044 Posts

March 04 2010 09:46 GMT

#157

On March 03 2010 20:05 FastEddieV wrote:
Okay, the newest annoyance is the facebook ads. The hosts file provided earlier in the thread did nothing to keep them from appearing. The images accompanying the ads have gone but the text and links remain, and trying to block the appropriate content through the "inspect element" -> preferences -> blocked content did nothing but disable facebook chat. Any ideas?

I have the same problem. I installed the hosts file thing but I still have ads in gmail and some other places, also sometimes the picture of the ad will be gone, but the pop-up is still there. Am I doing something wrong or is the host file replacement just that crappy

Headlines

United States482 Posts

March 04 2010 16:15 GMT

#158

Opera seems fantastic, but I have one really big issue that is preventing me from using it.

When I do the "open in new tab", it'll send me to the new tab. I would like to know how I can just stay on my current screen without it sending me to the newly opened tab.

This may not seem like a big issue, but when I try to solve 14 manual complaints in a row, all of which are new tabs, I don't like the idea of going back on forth after each new tab.

Please help!

crate

United States2474 Posts

March 04 2010 16:26 GMT

#159

On March 05 2010 01:15 Headlines wrote:
When I do the "open in new tab", it'll send me to the new tab. I would like to know how I can just stay on my current screen without it sending me to the newly opened tab.

Open in background tab.