The Opera Thread!

[MidnightSun]

Opera 12 beta has been released! Download it and read about new features here. See the latest blog posts on Opera 12 beta here.

unfortunately no, mouse gestures require that you hold down the right-click for a full second (to register). i don't know if tap-and-hold the two-finger touchpad would activate the mouse gestures.

Unless I misunderstood you, no, you don't have to hold right-mouse for a second to register a mouse gesture (there is a delay before the visual hint comes up, though--personally I have those disabled).

I don't have multitouch enabled, but if two-finger tap is right-click, it could feasibly work with gestures as well, ie two-finger drag left to go back. Not sure. You could try it out and report back!

[daver160]

Unless I misunderstood you, no, you don't have to hold right-mouse for a second to register a mouse gesture (there is a delay before the visual hint comes up, though--personally I have those disabled).

I don't have multitouch enabled, but if two-finger tap is right-click, it could feasibly work with gestures as well, ie two-finger drag left to go back. Not sure. You could try it out and report back!

Sorry I think I over-generalised a bit. When I meant it takes a second to register the mouse gesture, I meant that it may take a few cycles for the touchpad to determine the difference between its own gestures and Opera's mouse gestures. For example many multitouch touchpads have their own hardware/driver level gestures that may kick in before Opera's mouse gestures, except for the basic up/down/left/right/hooks. This happens on my Dell Vostro, but not on my XPS15, due to the touchpad's own set of gestures.

As for the two-finger right-click, I am unable to get the mouse gestures going on my machines. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but I didn't spend any time trying to solve the issue as I only ever really use my touchpad in cramped spaces as I use a USB mouse 90% anyways.

[daver160]

Thanks daver160

rep sent.

glad to have helped.

also, fwiw, if you're like me and sometimes are just that lazy to use a mouse, you can use Z and X to navigate backwards and forwards, respectively, through pages.

i find that i can do just about everything in Opera with just my left hand: navigate (Z,X,Esc,F5,Ctrl+R), move around the page (Q,W,A,S,Space), switch pages (1,2), zoom pages (8 out,9 in,0 reset). That covers about every "standard" functionality that your grandmother would use in a web browser

[jaug1337]

Beautiful thread! +rep when I can give

Good job, I wonder if it's okay if I borrow some of your code? credits will be given.

[MidnightSun]

Beautiful thread! +rep when I can give

Good job, I wonder if it's okay if I borrow some of your code? credits will be given.

Thanks

And sure, a lot of the formatting I used is borrowed from justinkw1 and 2.0™ anyway. All I did was choose the font faces, make the Opera "O" logo, and a few minor tweaks

[Goschi]

Hmm, now i'm kinda interested in using Opera

[MidnightSun]

Opera 11.64 is released, with some minor stability/performance and security fixes:

General and User Interface

• Stability improvements
• Resolved a handshake failure on https://autoupdate.opera.com

Network and Site-Specific

• Fixed an error where an on-demand-plugin placeholder could lower the security status of a secure site to insecure
• Fixed an issue with some secure pages not loading - PayPal, Ebay
• dojotoolkit.org: Errors when using the dojo amd loader have been resolved
• rts.rs: A JavaScript error has been resolved

Security

• Fixed an issue where certain URL constructs could allow arbitrary code execution, as reported by Andrey Stroganov; see our advisory

Also, Opera 12.00 Beta has been updated, with Mac sandboxing.

[Rodster]

I started using Opera again. I've always like the smooth scroll of Opera. And Opera has features other browsers just started implementing.

[makatec]

The last 64bit build is very stable. No flash shuttering or crashing.

[jaug1337]

Thanks

And sure, a lot of the formatting I used is borrowed from justinkw1 and 2.0™ anyway. All I did was choose the font faces, make the Opera "O" logo, and a few minor tweaks

Great to hear. I would love to update my Clevo EU reseller thread with this technique hehe