Opera
Opera is a full-featured Internet tool, most notably a fully standard conforming Web browser. Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like a password manager, mouse gestures, native Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support, an email program, RSS newsfeeds, and IRC chat. It is designed to be fast and highly customizable.
| Tags | Internet Web Browsers |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Other |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux BSD FreeBSD |
Recent releases
- 06 Jun 2009 01:43
Changes: Many new features were implemented, such as visual tabs, more configurable Speed Dial, Opera Turbo, integrated crash logging, inline spell checking, and automatic updates. Significantly improved performance was achieved, particularly on CSS/HTML rendering. HTML compose support was added to Opera Mail. 100/100 score and pixel-perfect representation were achieved on the Acid3 test. Many other improvements were made.
- 04 Mar 2009 15:47
Changes: Several security and stability fixes were made, upgrading is strongly recommended.
- 16 Dec 2008 22:33
Changes: This recommended upgrade fixes several security flaws, such as execution of arbitrary code by manipulating text input contents, execution of arbitrary code though an HTML parsing flaw, execution of arbitrary code through long hostnames in "file:" URLs, revelation of contents of unrelated news feeds by script injection in the feed preview, and cross-site scripting by built-in XSLT templates. SVG images embedded using <img> tags can no longer execute Java or plugin content.
- 30 Oct 2008 17:27
Changes: This release fixes an issue where History Search could be used to execute arbitrary code. Furthermore, the links panel no longer allows cross-site scripting. Upgrading is recommended.
- 22 Oct 2008 13:36
Changes: This release fixes several minor security flaws, such as an issue where History Search could be used to reveal browsing history, cross-site scripting through Fast Forward, and news feed preview revealing the contents of unrelated news feeds. An issue with Opera Link which could generate duplicate bookmarks during the synchronization process was fixed. The image toggle button on the status bar is now a normal button, and does not have a menu.
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Recent commentsRe: I guess you get what you pay for
Perhaps you were using the dynamic Qt version (which is often unstable) and an incompatible version of Java ? Opera has been getting more and more stable for me the past 10 versions or so. Currently on 8.0 I am able to keep it running with over 45 tabs open for more than a week at a time without a crash.
USER PID PPID PGID STAT STIME TIME %CPU RSS COMMAND
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raven 3329 624 3329 Ss Apr12 01:06:35 0.5 107680 /usr/lib/opera/8.0-20050316.5/opera
The current date is Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 0013.16 PDT (-0700 UTC)
Perhaps give 8.0 another shot.
Regarding plugins, they work fine for me (Acrobat, Flash, etc.), in fact Flash works far better in Opera than in other web browsers -- the zoom feature not only scales the page graphics and fonts, but also the Flash animations ! Wonderbar.
PDF Conversions
I'm offering my webpage to pdf convrsion utility to all of the browser projects and would love it if Opera accepted. I've built a online file conversion engine which takes public webpages, changes them to pdf docuiments and then e-mails the pdf document to the end user. A running copy can be found at www.2convert.com.
If you want it, let me know.
Charles
I guess you get what you pay for
As of 7.1.0 I am officially in the market for a new browser.
The suck factor has finally incremented past the tolerance
stop and I'm done. This has all the same 'features' as the
6.X seriies (spontaneous crashes, flakey rendering, poor
java and javascript support, poor flash support, poor plugin
support in general), with some new and improved flaws
(S L O W flakey rendering, flakey 'new browser' rules,
download directories must be selectedEVERY SINGLE
TIME. no option for download window to 'pop up' instead
of just creating a whole window. )
I'm done. There are some great features but the pain level is
too high. So long Opera, write when you get it to work.
Re: 'crashes'
> anyone else noticed a disturbing
> tendancy for opera to senselessly crash
> upon viewing any webpage after an update
> is available?
Absolutely. With each successive release in the 6.x series, I've been experiencing more of the sort of stability that made me leave Netscape.
The upside is that Opera keeps plenty of state, so when I restart, I'm back with all of my (dozens) of windows open. However, I distinctly remember it not crashing nearly as much back at 5.x.
I'm also noticing that 6.11 periodically flips out and starts chewing up CPU time like mad, hitting 90+%.
I'm a bit afraid to revert to an earlier version, though, since I'm not entirely sure my bookmarks and other such state would survive the trip back in time.
Perhaps it's time to install a centralized bookmark manager and upgrade my Mozilla install :)
'crashes'
anyone else noticed a disturbing tendancy for opera to senselessly crash upon viewing any webpage after an update is available? Two weeks ago, opera began to crash for no apparent reason; when I updated, it worked. Yesterday, Opera reverts to senseless crash on start behavior; it's not the .opera subdirectory either.
Honestly, if Opera wants people to upgrade, update notification in a form friendlier than segfaults would be much appreciated.