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Opera tutorials, try and tell me

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Honestly, I love Opera. I used to use Firefox, but once a friend told me to try Opera, I haven't gone back. It's faster, has better tabs, and the speed dial is amazing. I have a lot of sites on their, that with my browsing habits, would often forget to check for updates, new comics, videos, and the such. But when I get bored online, I just open up the speed dial, and go to a site. Loves Opera :D
 





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So can Opera do anything that Firefox can't (including add-ons)? I prefer functionality over a few second faster loading times.
 
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search as you type, opera turbo, mouse gestures, IRc client, mail client, torrent client, closed tabs recovering...

I don't for sure if all of these features aren't covered by add-ons on firefox, but I think they aren't. Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
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killmore231 said:
Yes. Im an Opera fan, but I understand that alot of people dont use their browser the same way I do. Try it, and see if you like it. ;)
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This list was made when Opera 9 was released. Nowadays most of that features have been implemented on Firefox by Mozilla or by add-ons
 
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killmore231 said:
Yes. Im an Opera fan, but I understand that alot of people dont use their browser the same way I do. Try it, and see if you like it. ;)
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Thats and old and outdated list. Several of those exists as plugins in Firefox and a few is even standard in Firefox nowadays.
 
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Meh.
I just downloaded it, and will be sticking to Chrome, mainly for the reasons Charlie gave weeks ago
 
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I have found 1 add-on that blows Opera out of the water IMO. You see, I have netflix, and netflix movies can only be viewed in IE (fail). Low and behold, a FF add-on called "IE Tab" that will open a tab in IE (in FF). The best part is, it never even actually opens an instance of IE at all. You can also add sites to a list to open in IE automatically! It's genius! :D
 
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HumanSymphony said:
I have found 1 add-on that blows Opera out of the water IMO. You see, I have netflix, and netflix movies can only be viewed in IE (fail). Low and behold, a FF add-on called "IE Tab" that will open a tab in IE (in FF). The best part is, it never even actually opens an instance of IE at all. You can also add sites to a list to open in IE automatically! It's genius! :D
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You are technicly wrong. It opens an IE instance the second you ask it to use Internet Explorer in a tab. You just cant see it.
 
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Ssargon said:
You are technicly wrong. It opens an IE instance the second you ask it to use Internet Explorer in a tab. You just cant see it.
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Not wrong. It doesn't open the actual IE, the add-on has it's own IE engine in it making it lighter and less fail. I have a HUGE problem with IE opening a ton of itself. When I have 1 instance of IE open, looking in task manager there will be 15+ running in the background. I do not know why it does this. :undecided:
 
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HumanSymphony said:
Not wrong. It doesn't open the actual IE, the add-on has it's own IE engine in it making it lighter and less fail. I have a HUGE problem with IE opening a ton of itself. When I have 1 instance of IE open, looking in task manager there will be 15+ running in the background. I do not know why it does this. :undecided:
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AFAIK, IE opens a new instance for each page/session, along with a new IE process which "oversees" the others, and offers the "window" to which each session is drawn. Thus, if any one session crashes or is compromised, in theory it doesn't drag the others down with it (unlike, say Firefox or I think Opera, not sure though). This results in slightly higher memory and CPU consumption, in return for increased security and stability. If you're getting more than 5 processes, that sounds like an odd glitch - but I had a Browser "Helper" virus in IE8, which spawned an invisible IE process in the background, and I think began to click on adverts, earning its writer some money. Not nice, not easy to remove or detect, and I have no clue how it got in, which is why I don't use IE at all any more.
 
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charliebruce said:
AFAIK, IE opens a new instance for each page/session, along with a new IE process which "oversees" the others, and offers the "window" to which each session is drawn. Thus, if any one session crashes or is compromised, in theory it doesn't drag the others down with it (unlike, say Firefox or I think Opera, not sure though). This results in slightly higher memory and CPU consumption, in return for increased security and stability. If you're getting more than 5 processes, that sounds like an odd glitch - but I had a Browser "Helper" virus in IE8, which spawned an invisible IE process in the background, and I think began to click on adverts, earning its writer some money. Not nice, not easy to remove or detect, and I have no clue how it got in, which is why I don't use IE at all any more.
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Yea, it starts out with just a few, but after a while there's just TONS of them. They don't go away either. I have to close every single one in task manager. If it's a virus, it surely can't be detected. I won't be using it anymore for this reason, and since I got the FF add-on I don't even need to :D 2-in-1 browser ftw!
 
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