Comments on: Opera 10 Stands Up to the Competition

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:24:01 +0000

@Christopher :
Thank you for helping me turn off that hot click menu! I always found that to be an incredibly annoying feature, especially since my panasonic laptop has a touchscreen and sometimes it takes a few extra pokes to be precise.

By: ArAsh M. Dehghani

ArAsh M. Dehghani — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:47:35 +0000

Very nice article, but I prefer Chrome for surfing and Opera for download and something like that,…
at least is so better than IE

By: admin

admin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:53:24 +0000

@Chistopher:
Thanks for the tips. I mentioned that the mail error has been fixed many times and seems to come back. And the method you described was how I’ve fixed it in the past. Even though these quirks can be “fixed” in my opinion that doesn’t redeem the browser for those flaws, as I shouldn’t have to go through all that tweaking every time I install it on a machine.

But anyways, who cares about Opera 9 when Opera 10 is available for download…

By: Christopher vanDyck

Christopher vanDyck — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:57:44 +0000

Ahem… almost all of these points of annoyance which you blame on Opera can be fixed. Opera is a very unique kind of software, in that it is very customisable.

> Every time I open Opera 9.62 I get this lovely error.

Try this: Type opera:config in the address bar. Then navigate down to the “user prefs” section, and uncheck “Show Mail Error Dialog.” In my experience, this problem has occurred at times when I was not using an administrative windows account. It seems that there’s a problem with creating or overwriting certain data files.

> In most browsers if you open 10 new tabs in the background, then click the last one, you can work your way back by closing each tab and getting the next newest tab.

This can be changed. Run your finger up to the tools menu. Choose “Preferences,” then the “Advanced” tab, and then the “Tabs” section. Where it says “When closing a tab” choose the option: “Activate the next tab.”

> I’ll go to right click a link to open it in a new tab, or to save an images, and it randomly jumps to another open tab.

That’s a javascript thing that certain websites have set up. They will raise the window when it has completely loaded. It’s not Opera’s fault. Write an email to the webmaster of the websites which do this.

> The third and final quirk of Opera that keeps me from enjoying the experience is quite often when I double click some text, or select a block of text, it will randomly open my right click menu.

That’s called the “hot-click menu,” and you can turn it off. Again, type opera:config in the address bar, and under user prefs, uncheck “Automatic Select Menu”

By: datablocks

datablocks — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:23:32 +0000

Hopefully this brings us one step closer to finally seeing the death of IE6

By: Cody Taylor

Cody Taylor — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:52:27 +0000

Opera has never, not once, imported my bookmarks for me on ubuntu linux. Because of that I never bother using it.