The Opera Thread!

[daver160]

glad to have helped. i can't believe i missed this thread! very handy to have all the tips and tricks laid out in a linear read (rather than relying on stumbling upon my.opera.com blogs)

[MidnightSun]

A big Opera 12.00 alpha hardware acceleration update. There's mention that a full beta release will be coming up, too

[Kuu]

Does anyone have issues with the Verge's website? Even its main page is horrible to scroll in on Opera, its laggy and jerky on pretty much any page you go to there; I'm not sure why, but its the only site that gives Opera issues for me.

[MidnightSun]

Does anyone have issues with the Verge's website? Even its main page is horrible to scroll in on Opera, its laggy and jerky on pretty much any page you go to there; I'm not sure why, but its the only site that gives Opera issues for me.

Yep, same. I'd imagine it's the same thing as what was happening with Facebook a while back: Opera's doing too much "work" rendering the content with their layout code. Doesn't help that The Verge is very content-rich as is.

[Kuu]

Yep, same. I'd imagine it's the same thing as what was happening with Facebook a while back: Opera's doing too much "work" rendering the content with their layout code. Doesn't help that The Verge is very content-rich as is.

Ah, that helps me because I was thinking it was an extension I added in or something.

I haven't tested it with the beta though, I installed that on Windows 8, maybe I'll look into that tomorrow..

[MidnightSun]

After some detective work, it would seem that a possible reason for the poor performance on The Verge is the heavy use of Javascript. The Verge does suffer a bit from "content overload" though...

[baiii]

Interesting, I think I should give opera a try. Does opera suffer as much compare to chrome for multi-tab?

chrome kneel down around 20 tabs per windows on some of my frequent visited blog/forums/youtube.

Edit: one thing that I notice is that opera seem to don't have much customized skin? I am a "kid" and need some color and girl on my browser xD

falling in love on opera abit for the amount of customization it have like firefox, just hoping it wont become a turtle like firefox when mounted with extensions.

edit2: my opera adventure ended , no drag and drop kill it for me ~~ on a laptop with a clicky touch pad, right clicking is annoying , even with 2 finger tap.

[daver160]

Don't forget that you can customise mouse gestures. (click and hold right mouse button).

Interesting, I think I should give opera a try. Does opera suffer as much compare to chrome for multi-tab?

chrome kneel down around 20 tabs per windows on some of my frequent visited blog/forums/youtube.

Edit: one thing that I notice is that opera seem to don't have much customized skin? I am a "kid" and need some color and girl on my browser xD

falling in love on opera abit for the amount of customization it have like firefox, just hoping it wont become a turtle like firefox when mounted with extensions.

edit2: my opera adventure ended , no drag and drop kill it for me ~~ on a laptop with a clicky touch pad, right clicking is annoying , even with 2 finger tap.

As for memory usage, Opera is not immune to the "XYZ browser is eating up all my memory". I find that Opera is generally more... hungry... when there is lots of free RAM in your system, but it can also be very sparing if there is not much memory available. For example I currently have about 30-40 tabs open across 3 windows (on 3 different monitors). Right now Opera is using up about 1.5GB/16GB of my desktop's memory (keep in mind that I hav some web apps debugging in the background so this is expected). Normal usage on my laptops is anywhere from 50MB to 500MB (both laptops have 8GB RAM).

I find that Opera is less "user friendly" than Chrome and Firefox who seem to dedicate their functionality to every possible person on the planet. A lot of users on Chrome and FF don't seem to appreciate the use of keyboard shortcuts. I can navigate everything in Opera with just one hand using the keys Z,X,Q,W,E,A,S,D,6,9,0,F1 (custom, switch to previous tab), F2 (custom, switch to next tab),F3,F8.

That said, I understand why many users would like the extra usability functionality such as drag and drop of images (quick download/save to folders) and extra smooth scrolling. However, IMO Opera's features seem to be more appropriate to a niche set of users. I believe I fall under that niche, and I don't customize Opera at all. THe only extensions I have are AdBlock, ImgTip, and Kick a$$ (because coffee breaks aren't complete without Asteroids!).

[baiii]

does mouse gesture work well with touchpad?(no button clicking). right mouse on touchpad = 2finger tap which is not really convenient for gesture. I tried before with mouse but i find keyboard shortcut is faster.

I do like the customization, and chrome require some extension for some minimal function. Would had use firefox if not for its slow startup with extensions loaded.

I forgot 1 thing that make no drag/drop text a pita for me. I read/write/listen/speak chinese but I can't type chinese so drag word to phase/sentence search is fastest

[daver160]

does mouse gesture work well with touchpad?(no button clicking). right mouse on touchpad = 2finger tap which is not really convenient for gesture. I tried before with mouse but i find keyboard shortcut is faster.

I do like the customization, and chrome require some extension for some minimal function. Would had use firefox if not for its slow startup with extensions loaded.

I forgot 1 thing that make no drag/drop text a pita for me. I read/write/listen/speak chinese but I can't type chinese so drag word to phase/sentence search is fastest

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.

as for drag and drop text, that's a nice-to-have feature that i actually would prefer not to have. i like the granularity of highlighting the text i want and right-click + C.