Maybe I should post a bunch of general Opera info:
Where to Get ItIt is freely available for Windows, Linux, Mac, OS/2, Solaris, FreeBSD, QNX and Smartphones from Opera ASA's web site:
http://www.opera.com/News & SupportNews are announced on the Opera.com main page, for support, visit the MyOpera forums:
http://my.opera.com/forums/ExtensionsNot required - Opera comes with everything. The browser told the be the fastest in the world, the M2 email client, news, and RSS feed reader, and an IRC client... all in one 3.4 MB package - that's about half of Firefox's download size, and Firefox is just the skeleton which requires a lot of extension downloading to get some features.
There are naturally skins, menu and toolbar setups available at
MyOpera. There are lots of cool skins that can be made even cooler by applying a color scheme in Opera; there are currently 11 different color schemes available. That is a unique feature that only Opera has. By downloading a menu setup
here, you can get even more features. For instance, Jor's Menu Setup adds an extra "Resources" toolbar which allows you to validate the current page directly at W3C (CSS and HTML). It also has links to all sorts of web standard and Opera documentations, an option to know if the current page was rendered in quirks mode or standards mode, an option to open the current page in MSIE and Mozilla, and an option to resize the window to 640x480, 800x600, or 1024x768.
Opera supports the HTML, XHTML, CSS2 (with some exceptions), WML 1.1, and DOM. I'm particularly happy about the JavaScript support; it supports both Mozilla and IE specific methods and properties, like document.all and window.pageXOffset. It doesn't support ActiveX, clipboard functions and the IE specific event handlers though.
Opera has tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, various quick search functions in the toolbar (e.g. Google search), a page zooming function (unlike other browsers that only can resize the text), extremely customizable toolbars and interface (skinning), Java (applets) and Flash support available, small screen (handheld phone) simulation, various handy keyboard shortcuts, a bookmarks and mail importing feature that works with many different softwares, a popup blocker, easy page preferences configuring (press F12 to enable/disable popup blocking, JavaScript support, GIF animation, Java, Flash, cookies, proxy servers, referrer info sending, and to change the user agent string), session autosaving (if Opera is terminated unexpectedly, it remembers the pages you had open and you can continue from where you were when you open Opera again), a Transfers panel where you can control your downloads, and if you want, pause a download and continue it whenever you want), and so much more.
The free version of Opera has a banner ad (Google text ads), if it disturbs you a lot, then you can purchase the licensed version of Opera - it isn't that expensive after all.
You can see the default Opera configuration (for Windows) here:
http://www.opera.com/docs/screenshots/751/Here is what my configuration looks like:
http://members.surfeu.fi/jerkku/weborum/Opera.pngEven if you have decided that you will never use anything else than Mozilla, or Firefox, try Opera anyway. Just to know what Mozilla really is competing against. I have the feeling there are some invalid rumours of Opera... or what's wrong if you can't even browse through the toolbars before saying that something is impossible in Opera? I have a fresh example... (see the last posts)
http://www.techsupportdude.com/viewtopic.php?t=1152Well, enjoy. Happy surfing