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."
easter egg? (Score:3, Insightful)
Not an easter egg! (Score:4, Insightful)
At best, this is an undocumented shortcut. Lots of software has them.
(You can tell it wasn't hidden, because the obvious shortcut for "slashdot" is "/.". If it were hidden, you'd be doing something completely unlikely and suddenly and unexpectedly get to Slashdot, like pressing Ctrl+Alt+/, then Shift+Meta+., then double clicking on the "Help" menu item.)
Free Mac? (Score:1, Insightful)
Or did I miss the end of that analogy?
Re:Opera runs without hardware DEP (Score:4, Insightful)
Opera has been packing executable for years and I can't remember a single buffer overrun bug in the wild.
You can say ANYTHING about Opera but you can't say it is insecure, period.
(posted via licensed Omniweb on OS X)