Opera tutorials, try and tell me

when you put an user name and password Opera asks you if you want it to be saved. You click "yes" and after that you will only have to hit ctrl+enter when you are on that page for Opera to fill the gaps and auto-click the login button.

What's wrong?

Also, I really don't like you to say that Opera fails when you have obviously not tested it that much. I'm saying that IE fails but trust me that I do know what I say after using it for years.

Yours,
Albert

Hallucynogenyc said:

2)It works for me. how are you doing it? Remember you first have to export them from firefox: Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks -> Import and Backup -> Export HTML

This is the file you have to open with opera when trying to import!

3.-why does it matter to first select the foler and then clicking "save" than first clicking "save" and then selecting the folder?

Yours,
Albert

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2) I did it exactly as you described it, but it only imports the bookmarks firefox came with - "welcome to firefox" and all that other crap. None of my user created bookmarks are imported.

3) You don't understand.. in firefox, when you choose "save picture" or some other file, you get a window.. in this window I just go click the search bar, type "fail pics" if it is a picture of epic fail, "summer 2009" if I want to save the picture in this year's summer folder which is located inside my "friends" folder. Then that folder is immediately shown, I just click it and click save.

With Opera I have to choose "desktop", then "documents", then "pictures", then "fun pictures", then "fail pics".. and then I can save it. The next time I want to save a picture of me building a snowman I have to click "desktop", then "documents", then "pictures", then "friends", then "Winter 2008".

Sometimes image files are located in another place than the "pictures" folder in my documents, sometimes I have to save work related stuff, sometimes it's music or videos. It is a major pain in the ass to manually track down the correct folder because Opera lacks such a basic function.

EDIT: I want to add that the ctrl+enter login works perfectly here.. so far works for any site, unlike firefox. My friends don't log onto my profile by mistake either when using my computer because they don't know that simple key combination.

Seb

Hallucynogenyc said:

Also, I really don't like you to say that Opera fails when you have obviously not tested it that much. I'm saying that IE fails but trust me that I do know what I say after using it for years.

Yours,
Albert

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It's not nice of you to ASSUME things either. I did use Opera for YEARS on my old PC as it completely sucked. It runs faster on SHIT PC's and that's all there is to it. So don't try and tell ME that I haven't used it that much. I have, and it is nothing special AT ALL.

Hallucynogenyc said:

This happens always or happened to you once? If you close opera and open it again everything should be as it was. have you tried to press F5 when this happens?

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It happens always but f5 does not work

Silvershot said:

It happens always but f5 does not work

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Reinstall flash player FROM Opera. I think this will solve the problem. Flash player must be installed with all the browsers installed, if you don't and install browsers with the old flash installation there will be problems.

Hope this helps.

@humansymphonykay, from saying that it has nothing speciall at all compared to Firefox (something I also disagree at) to say that it FAILS as browser there's a very big difference. Sorry if I asumed wrong, but saying that Opera fails as browser means IMO that it's useless or that it just doesn't work properly, and this is something only someone who had not tested it would say.

Hallucynogenyc said:

Reinstall flash player FROM Opera. I think this will solve the problem. Flash player must be installed with all the browsers installed, if you don't and install browsers with the old flash installation there will be problems.

Hope this helps.

@humansymphonykay, from saying that it has nothing speciall at all compared to Firefox (something I also disagree at) to say that it FAILS as browser there's a very big difference. Sorry if I asumed wrong, but saying that Opera fails as browser means IMO that it's useless or that it just doesn't work properly, and this is something only someone who had not tested it would say.

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I never once said it fails as a browser. In fact, if you look at earlier posts, I even said it was a good browser. I said it FAILED to input passwords like firefox does, and I have the same problem as silvershot, and no it is not flash player. It will just start not working and eventually won't load ANY pages. It's odd really.

Well, then maybe I'm not understanding things the way they are, but this

Quote:Originally Posted by mfo
That's because Opera fails as a browser.

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True.

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is what made me think what I understood.

Leave it anyway

This about the browser stopping working is strange. I've never heard about something like that and I'm usually reading the Opera help forums. About the password manager, in my case it's firefox the one that doesn't save them properly, as Jaseth said.

So, the problem is that after normally browsing for something like 10 minutes, Opera suddenly stops and you have to close it? wtf xD

Yours,
Albert

mfo said:

That's actually a bad idea. What if I'm typing a URL that has commas in it?

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You best be trolling...

mfo said:

Sorry, but I tried Opera a long time ago. It blows IMO. I prefer IE8 over any other browser, followed by chrome.

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Again, best be trolling.

nikokapo said:

OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE.....OH WOW....*snif* DUDE I'M CRYING IN JOY...THEY'VE FIXED ONE OF MY MOST COMMON MISTAKES!!!

If you type www.google,com it will transform that comma into a dot!

And when I thought I couldn't love Opera more.

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Just write "google,com" in FF and there you go. Opera is a copycat.

Hallucynogenyc said:

You totally got me here. There are 2 cons on Opera:

1.-Webmasters do their websites for IE or for firefox, but they never check how it's working on Opera. This means that Opera has to adapt itself to the firefox standarts, something that it does successfully on a 99.9% of the times, but sometimes not.

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Well, I try to check out my work in Opera (the work I do outside the main organisation I work for, I always check out my own work in most browsers I can get my hands on). This one bugged out because of a bug in Operas javascript engine. You are supposed to be able to ask if a variable exists or not but Opera just seams to stop the javascript if it cant find the variable. Not good

Hallucynogenyc said:

2.-SunMS does never look on how their JVM is working on Opera, so Opera has to take care on it, again some times it fails. This used to happen to me in a concrete site on the past, but I sent a bug report to them and they fixed it in the next version.

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Thats good. But for me it was actual page loading that seamed a bit slow next to Firefox or Safari (under Mac OS X, it may be a whole lot different under Windows).

While Opera is a good browser it has its faults. But it still beats the crap out of Internet Explorer that far to many people are using

well, if it's true that this was implemented in Firefox before, I'm glad to announce you that Opera has copied something from Firefox for the first time. But here's the bad side. Opera has had this optional feature for years, just that Firefox implemented it by default and so Opera has made the option default on Opera 10.

let's make the list of things Firefox has 100% copied from Opera.

Tab Browsing
Password manager
Speed dial (FF addon)
Sessions
Notes
Voice Navigation
mouse gestures
Getting back closed tabs
tabs miniatures

Opera is a copycat

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@SSargon: You using MAC! You didn't mention that! I know Opera for MAC has many bugs with the Java engine, but well, I've always been talking in the windows context. I have a total lack of knowledge about MAC, Opera for MAC etc, sorry but I can't help you here. However, the official Opera forum is filled with Experts that will kindly help you

Hallucynogenyc said:

Well, then maybe I'm not understanding things the way they are, but this



is what made me think what I understood.

Leave it anyway

This about the browser stopping working is strange. I've never heard about something like that and I'm usually reading the Opera help forums. About the password manager, in my case it's firefox the one that doesn't save them properly, as Jaseth said.

So, the problem is that after normally browsing for something like 10 minutes, Opera suddenly stops and you have to close it? wtf xD

Yours,
Albert

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Yeah it's strange. Sometimes even when I first start it it won't load anything lol. I DO use it on occasion Like I said, it's a good browser. For me it's like choosing between a blue skittle and a green skittle. I like both, but blue razzberry tastes just a little bit better win analogy FTW! lol

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@SSargon: You using MAC! You didn't mention that! I know Opera for MAC has many bugs with the Java engine, but well, I've always been talking in the windows context. I have a total lack of knowledge about MAC, Opera for MAC etc, sorry but I can't help you here. However, the official Opera forum is filled with Experts that will kindly help you

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The info was actually in my first post about Opera. You must have missed it

Yes, I am sure there are lots of people in there that can help me with various things but if they cant invent a time machine Im afraid I dont have the time to go look for them

Jokes aside I have tried Opera several times and its just not for me. I always try to keep an updated copy on my harddrive but I always find it not up to my taste when I try it out.

Silvershot said:

HELP PLZ. I has problem with stupid opera. when i am watching a video on youtube, after like 10 min without doing anything, i click on another video but page does not load. so i have to close opera and open it again, so i lose all my work plz help

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Well, you've admitted that it's stupid, so why should you be inconvenienced with trying to make it work? If I were you I'd go back to my default browser. As Napoleon Dynamite once said....

"It's a piece of crap, it doesn't work!"

Downloading opera, i have seen before, but I have never downloaded it, going to check it out..

mfo said:

Well, you've admitted that it's stupid, so why should you be inconvenienced with trying to make it work? If I were you I'd go back to my default browser. As Napoleon Dynamite once said....

"It's a piece of crap, it doesn't work!"

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maybe because he found out how amazing it is except for this strange bug? But well, how can you understand anything, IE user...

@Losah: How did it go?