Opera 11 Beta Released, With Extensions Support 142
An anonymous reader writes "Opera 11 Beta has just been released and now includes support for extensions. Also new in this release Tab Stacking, Visual Mouse Gestures, performance improvements, new installer, and much more. Even with its many new features, Opera 11 is 30% smaller than Opera 10.60. That means that Opera downloads more quickly and installs in fewer steps. There are over 130 extensions and climbing including NoScript and AdBlock! Extensions can be found here."
Re:Extension not exactly needed for adblock (Score:3, Insightful)
Opera also makes it very easy to block ads as you encounter them. Right click, block content.
Script blocking however has been terrible in my experience. You can block scripts by default, and can make exceptions for sites, but you cant allow single scripts within a page, at least not that I've found. Noscript is really a huge plus.
Re:adblock extension (Score:2, Insightful)
noscript knockoff? (Score:2, Insightful)
I can't find noscript available. There's noTscript, which claims to be the same thing, but where's the real thing that I've been using for years?
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Re:Extension not exactly needed for adblock (Score:2, Insightful)
You are right, but in my experience setting up adblocking on Opera has been been a pain compared to Adblock. So not exactly needed in the theory. But if users use another browser because of this, then for Opera, it is really needed. This has been the case with me at least.
Re:adblock extension (Score:3, Insightful)
>about fucking time
Say what?
How bloody hard is it to copy a file? A text one at that? How hard is it to literally grab and drag a file from "Download" to where your local .opera directory is, or to directly save the file to .opera?
So now it's got a GUI wrapper? BFD. It actually makes it *more* complicated.
I swear that every complaint that "Hurr, durr, Opera had no adblock" is an intelligence shibboleth. Those that said it are stupid, without reservation.
Two best browsers on the 'net - Chrome and Opera. Hands down. The others aren't even close. Not Webkit nor Gecko based browsers. And IE is just a special case all to itself - a reminder of a bygone era when standards didn't matter.
-- BMO
Your mentally challenged or just plain ignorant by mocking WebKit and praising Chrome. Chrome is WebKit with Google crap bolted on. Thanks to WebKit we have Chrome, Chromium, Epiphany, Safari, and other WebKit based browsers.
By the way, Opera 11 beta still blows chunks for HTML5 support. Wake me up when it's HTML5 Algorithm is complete and HTML5 Tokenizer, HTML5 Tree Building, SVG in text/html and MathML in text/html for HTML5 is supported. Their HTML5 Element support is garbage and their user interaction [Drag and drop, Undo History, Session History, Text Selection] at the rate they are going will take another 12 months to be covered.
Re:Extension not exactly needed for adblock (Score:5, Insightful)
I personally get by with Opera the 'Enable Plug-Ins' checkbox placed on the status bar and turned off by default. This stops any flash ads. This works for me as I follow the 'Ad blocking hurts the websites you love' approach, and its the flash ads that are the really annoying ones - YMMV.
Re:Too little too late? (Score:4, Insightful)
#1 browser in Ukraine [statcounter.com], exchanging #1 spot with FF in Russian Federation [statcounter.com], nearing 50% and far above other browsers in Belarus [statcounter.com]; generally a very notable share in most of ex Warsaw Pact. Some worldwide stats appear to be underreporting, by focusing on pages most likely to be visited by specific demographics / rarely visited by some others. How Opera is the #1 mobile web browser worldwide by website stats (despite most of its users being in places with expensive data access, certainly frugal about number of pages visited) might help one day, when those people shift to desktops.
Opera addons are at least based on W3C widget specs...
(if you really want speed you'd better not ignore Opera BTW - especially in cases when it really matters (slow machine, slow connection; this contributes to CIS popularity))
Anyway - they have healthy, rising profitability as is (also during the last 3 years)
FireFox 4 Beta? (Score:1, Insightful)
Guess what? FF4 now has the identical thing!
Opera has always had the URL attached to each "Tab". Meaning there is a tab and under the tab is the URL, which is unique to each tab. As opposed to other browsers where there is just one URL above the tabs and then as you click tabs the URL just changes. FF users use to bash Opera for this.
Guess what!? That is how FF4 now works!
If you bring up FF4 and Opera at the same time, FF4 looks identical to Opera now. Other than the name.
If I was a FF4 user I would be embarrassed at the lack of uniqueness and ingenuity that has over taken FF.