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PDF Conversions
by Charles - May 6th 2003 14:53:12
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
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www.2convert.com
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I guess you get what you pay for
by rudedog - Apr 26th 2003 04:35:25
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.
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Re: I guess you get what you pay for
by Raven Morris - Apr 21st 2005 00:18:40
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
-----------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." -- Groucho Marx
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'crashes'
by David Hunt - Dec 5th 2002 13:46:45
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.
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Re: 'crashes'
by Tripp Lilley - Jan 19th 2003 14:15:59
> 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 :)
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Opera 6.0 TP3 and XFree 4.2.0
by sandolo - Feb 6th 2002 07:34:00
I get this error when running opera:
[...]/opera-6.0-20020110.1-static_qt.i386/plugins/operamotifwrapper:
error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file:
cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
ldd on operamotifwrapper says that
libXm.so.2 => not found
I don't know if it's my problem (XFree 4.2.0 compiled without that
libXm), or an Opera compilation problem...
I use XFree 4.2.0 compiled by hand (not distro package) on a slackware
8.0.
Does anybody has the same problem?
bye
sandolo
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Re: Opera 6.0 TP3 and XFree 4.2.0
by Frédéric L. W. Meunier - Feb 6th 2002 13:46:55
You probably need Lesstif or Open Motif.
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Re: Opera 6.0 TP3 and XFree 4.2.0
by Frédéric L. W. Meunier - Aug 28th 2002 02:04:31
> You probably need Lesstif or Open Motif.
BTW, I really think operamotifwrapper from Opera static should
statically link libXm, what I can confirm still doesn't happen with
6.0.3.
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No Proxy settings?
by Neil Watson - Dec 5th 2001 14:08:34
Does Opera 6 have no settings for a proxy
(junkbusters) or can I just not find it?
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Re: No Proxy settings?
by T o F - Dec 6th 2001 05:00:31
I've got it in TP1 and TP2... in the network part, proxy tab.
> Does Opera 6 have no settings for a
> proxy
> (junkbusters) or can I just not find
> it?
>
>
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Finally a useable browser on linux
by carambar - Nov 26th 2001 04:17:25
I just discovered opera for linux after konqueror crashed my computer for
the nth time. I was bored to wait for netscape to load web pages too...
The difference is amazing. It a lot of faster than netscape and has plenty
of unusual and interesting features.
Moreover it's up to date concerning html, javascript, css support etc...
The very good point is that the 5.05 version recognizes nestcape plugins
so flash and java are working. Although it's claimed to be a a
technological release, I only found minor bugs so it's very useable.
I'm waiting with impatience for the next release.
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_almost_ the right browser
by WesMo - Aug 22nd 2001 13:48:53
It definitely lives up to its promotion about being fast. The 5.05
release is nicely featured, and makes me quite happy with the proper
drawing and display of HTML pages and fonts.
The biggest downside is that Opera uses its own "virtual desktop" (similar
to other Apps like "Eudora"), which works great under Windows, but is a
great hindrance under X.
With Netscape, the beauty of it was that you could bring up another
browser window and drag it to where-ever you wanted to within your X
environment. With Opera, you are limited to being able to move the browser
window only within the "virutal desktop" that Opera provides.
However, that's the only limitation that I came across, aside from
the fact that it is less forgiving for bad HTML coded pages than other
browsers (which really isn't a big deal, honestly). It is a nice
alternative, but, without it being X-friendly, I cannot see it
taking much hold in the Linux universe IMHO.
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Re: _almost_ the right browser
by Nerijus Baliunas - Aug 22nd 2001 19:07:07
> The biggest downside is that Opera
> uses its own "virtual desktop" (similar
> to other Apps like "Eudora"), which
> works great under Windows, but is a
> great hindrance under X.
I actually like this feature very much (and use the same tabbed windows
interface in Galeon). Of course it could be configurable. What I don't like
though is absolute lack of i18n features. You have to choose another font
in prefs if you want to see a page in different language every time!
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Is from the best!
by Apopatos - Sep 22nd 2001 20:09:33
Is the best browser for windows,Linux and of course and for the other OS.It
is fast,with beautiful and useful interface and now supports and a lot of
Netscape's plugins.I had only a little problem,when i tried to to use
Internet Explorer favorites,(Opera supports and netscape's and others),my
Opera stopped to work and I couldn't do anything,I uninstalled it but it
could'nt again to work.But I do not care anymore because I don't use still
Windows.
Go and download Opera immediately!!!
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Re: _almost_ the right browser
by WesMo - Nov 21st 2001 12:36:40
Looks like the best of the best is coming down the line. Check out the
specs on Opera 6. They have it in beta right now for Windoze (no mention
of the Linux version), but it supports both types of
interfaces!
They call it the SDI/MDI - Single Document Interface [per window] and
Multiple Document Interface [per window]. The MDI is basically the way
Opera 5 and older run, where the SDI is more X-like. You get the choice of
running one or the other! Most excellent!
Interesting wording on their website, though: "Opera is most known for
its multiple document interface, but users of IE and Netscape may feel more
at ease in the single document interface, and can graduate later as
advanced users to the multiple document interface." Someone needs to tell
them that their "SDI" is the basic way that X works which has shown itself
to be geared towards the "advanced users". ;-)
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Re: _almost_ the right browser
by Nils O. Selåsdal - Jan 25th 2002 10:05:52
> It definitely lives up to its promotion
> about being fast. The 5.05 release is
> nicely featured, and makes me quite
> happy with the proper drawing and
> display of HTML pages and fonts.
>
> The biggest downside is that Opera
> uses its own "virtual desktop" (similar
> to other Apps like "Eudora"), which
> works great under Windows, but is a
> great hindrance under X.
For me this is the greatest part. in the recent versions
you can configure whether to use MDI or open documents in a seperate
window...
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QA ?
by blob - Apr 28th 2001 04:52:04
Install QT2 RPM.
Install Opera RPM. (with deps)
Type Opera, disk/cpu activity...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Its this kind of quality that means i keep using IE on a Win2K machine for
browsing.
--
Ian Kirk
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Re: QA ?
by T o F - Dec 6th 2001 04:59:47
apt-get install opera
opera&
thats done ! :)
> Install QT2 RPM.
> Install Opera RPM. (with deps)
> Type Opera, disk/cpu activity...
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Its this kind of quality that means i
> keep using IE on a Win2K machine for
> browsing.
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5.0-0beta7-20010320-018 still segfaults...
by Klaus Alexander Seistrup - Apr 2nd 2001 04:36:29
Opera is still not compatible with the libsafe library.
Starting Opera from the CLI yields:
mutende@zigzag:~$ opera
Detected an attempt to write across stack
boundary.
Terminating /usr/X11R6/bin/opera.
mutende@zigzag:~$
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Unselfish actions pay back better.
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great, great, great.
by sirm - Apr 2nd 2001 08:05:39
great browser... i've been using it since the 4.x series for linux, and
with each update all the bugs i encountered have been removed.. i love it
:)
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Sweeeeet
by Arthur H. Johnson II - Feb 14th 2001 17:18:45
I just used Opera for the first time yesturday, and I can't seem to exit
it! Opera 4.0b6 is just flat great, and when they release java support on
the Linux platform, I am SO buying it.
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4.0b3 quite good, 4.0b4 seems great!
by spinkham - Dec 14th 2000 03:28:31
I use both Opera, Mozilla, and Netscape 4.7x on a daily basis. As of the
newest beta, I'm spending much more time in Opera opposed to Mozilla which
was previously my predominate choice.
Opera is now fast, stable, and opens most all pages I throw at it,
which is more then I can say for either Mozilla or Netscape. Mozilla may
one day be better, but for now at least give Opera a try...
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Doesn't work on OpenBSD
by Jason R. McVetta - Dec 5th 2000 16:07:34
No luck getting Opera to run under linux emulation in OpenBSD. It might be
possible if one is willing to put up with making far more symbolic links of
libraries than I can personally deal with.
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Stay Away From the 4.0 Alpha Builds!!
by david e. weekly - Sep 28th 2000 11:45:21
They provide .bz2 and .deb install options, but no standard .tar.gz or
.rpm, first off. So unless you're running alien, you have to shove
things around yourself with RedHat. Admittedly, this is a no-brainer, but
sometimes it's the little things that count.
The main thing? The 4.0 alpha builds are amazingly unstable.
They're so buggy that Opera isn't even taking bug submissions
because they already have their hands full with them. I realize that this
isn't a final release, but Opera crashes if open for more than five
minutes and will freeze up your computer for 2-3 minutes straight from time
to time. (It also caused X to suddenly consume well over 100Mb of memory.)
The simple things you want in a browser are missing. Like a status bar
at the bottom and an address bar that shows you where you are and lets you
type in an address right there, without having to click to bring up a
"What address do you want to go to?" dialog. (In the screenshot
they show it, but we did not see it when we ran it.) A large back button in
the upper-left corner of the screen, not buried in a slew of other
buttons.
Here's hoping a 4.0 final will be actually usable. The preview
releases suck to the point where it is not useful for them to be demoing
them. (Especially if they're not even taking bug reports - who wins?)
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Forgot one thing...
by Josh Lauricha - Aug 18th 2000 22:29:20
in true Linux fashion, it absolutly FLIES!!! It starts up several times
faster than Netscape (A bit faster than IE in windows) the renderer is
great, and, best of all, its tiny compared to the others yet looks bettter
than Netscape, and is stabler as well.
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Great browser!!
by Josh Lauricha - Aug 18th 2000 22:21:46
I've just started to use Opera for Linux, Tech release 4, and it is just
about everything they say it is. The only problem I've seen is (asside from
it not being OSS) is it appears to use its own DNS lookup system rather
that the standard one, so stuff you've put in /etc/resolv.conf doesn't
work. This is only a problem if your like me and have a caching DNS (go set
one up!!). It also doesn't recognize localhost, you have to use the IP#.
Oh, and it uses Qt not GTK ;P Other than that, its a great browser.
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Opera may be our only hope.
by Reagen Ward - Aug 8th 2000 13:27:33
Considering the lack of quality going into the current Netscape/Mozilla
product line, Opera may be the Great White Hope for many UNIX/Linux users.
Their Windows product is excellent, and well worth the price, so I can only
hope that their Linux product will be of the same quality and stability.
I also hope that they support UNIX platforms other than Linux, as many
users use Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, and the like. The BSDs would be an
excellent place to start.
Reagen
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