Opera's Slashdot Easter Egg and Speed Dial 157
Thelomen writes "Opera Browser contains an Easter egg that is not widely known, recently reported over at OperaWatch.com: type /. in the address bar and you are taken directly to slashdot.org. Other recent news from Opera is their new Speed Dial feature, present in the most recent build from Desktop Team. At first glance Speed Dial just looks like 9 bookmarks you can open with CTRL+1 to CTRL+9. However, the pages on the Speed Dial are shown in thumbnail and are automatically pre-fetched in background — a useful thing if you have some heavy pages among your top bookmarks."
How about ctrl-l or F8 (Score:4, Informative)
Just add an entry for "d alt" "Focus address field" in the application or browser window section.
Re:Still won't use opera. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Still won't use opera. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Uh, Firefox has this also... (Score:4, Informative)
http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.h
It's amazing what two seconds in Google turns up.
Re:In firefox... (Score:1, Informative)
Bookmark Slashdot in Firefox. Now right-click the bookmark and select 'Properties'.
In the window that comes up, there's a field marked 'Keyword'. Enter
Now any time you enter
Re:In firefox... (Score:5, Informative)
Bookmark Slashdot in Firefox. Now right-click the bookmark and select 'Properties'.
In the window that comes up, there's a field marked 'Keyword'. Enter
Now any time you enter
(Accidentally posted this anonymous the first time. Reposting it so hopefully people see it.)
How Slashdot was named ... (Score:4, Informative)
That's very cool, and very nerdy, of Opera to add the "/." egg. I'm now tempted into downloading Opera and trying it out.
I've often thought that the Slashdot name was an unfortunately mistyped unix dot slash (./). Fortunately, I've recently discovered that it was originally named to confuse people who tried to verbalise the URL (i.e http colon slash slash slash dot dot org). Thus now I am reassured of the proper geek foundations for this site.
It's still a little unfortunate that Rob didn't choose "dotSlash" for this site's name. That would have appealed to the unix crowd, and would have been almost as confusing when reading out the URL (http colon slash slash dot slash dot org). Too late to change now, I suppose.
Re:g and r (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Opera runs without hardware DEP (Score:2, Informative)
It'd be nice if Opera supported DEP. I suspect it doesn't because they're very proud of its small size, even if it is enhanced by a packer. No other internet suite fits a browser, RSS reader, POP3/IMAP4 mail client, IRC client and NNTP client in such a small package. The packer makes it look even more impressive, of course, but even when unpacked it's still danged small for all that it does.
Opera has had surprisingly few really bad security issues over its lifetime - far fewer than most alternatives. The track history of the software and the attitude of its vendor do far more to assure me of its security than whether or not it uses hardware DEP support.
Because there's a difference between just being protected by hardware and being protected by good design. Other browsers may well support DEP, but we can probably all think of a certain browser that has an awful design which is almost impossible to truly secure because it places - deep in its design - functionality and integration with the OS above security.
DEP is nice, but not all attacks are buffer overruns. Some of them are just getting a browser to do something the designers thought was cool at the time, but didn't realise the security implications of.
Having read you article, I have a question - have you actually contacted Opera themselves about this and expressed your concerns to them? You don't say that you have, so I'm currently forced to conclude you're just griping for the sake of griping or worse, have no intention of doing more than self-publicising about this.
Speak to Opera. If you haven't before now, then start by apologising for posting this without first asking them what's up with this. Be polite, and tell them you'd like an official reply to follow up this entry with.
And in future, would you consider following responsible disclosure guidelines... If this is as serious as you seem to think it is, then it's bloody reckless of you not to, no?