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Opera Problems? New browser...go?
starmanbrand
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So I love Opera and have had very few problems with it. Most notably, some sites refuse to work in it. This doesn't bother me as I can use Firefox or IE for the few that give me problems. After upgrading to O11, however, I've run into several problems.
I can no longer check Gmail through opera (although other google services work and my digsby wont connect to it either so it must be on Goog's side?), I can't open PDFs in browser anymore, I can't do simple things like type in the search bar on several sites (netflix being the first example to jump to mind), and a few other problems that aren't jumping to mind. Searching leads me to believe that I am not the only one having these problems, but I've found no solutions.
So do I stay or do I go? I love Opera, but these problems compound to make me have to use firefox about 50% of the time rather than 5%. Is IE a viable contender now? I liked Chrome, but found it too bare bones a couple years ago. Is it better now? What other choices are out there? FF will remain my backup browser.
Most important features to me are probably something like speed dial (a starting homepage with a thumbnail of sites I visit often but I can edit what appears and their order) and a password manager (one button click to enter pw/username).
So I love Opera and have had very few problems with it. Most notably, some sites refuse to work in it. This doesn't bother me as I can use Firefox or IE for the few that give me problems. After upgrading to O11, however, I've run into several problems.
I can no longer check Gmail through opera (although other google services work and my digsby wont connect to it either so it must be on Goog's side?), I can't open PDFs in browser anymore, I can't do simple things like type in the search bar on several sites (netflix being the first example to jump to mind), and a few other problems that aren't jumping to mind. Searching leads me to believe that I am not the only one having these problems, but I've found no solutions.
So do I stay or do I go? I love Opera, but these problems compound to make me have to use firefox about 50% of the time rather than 5%. Is IE a viable contender now? I liked Chrome, but found it too bare bones a couple years ago. Is it better now? What other choices are out there? FF will remain my backup browser.
Most important features to me are probably something like speed dial (a starting homepage with a thumbnail of sites I visit often but I can edit what appears and their order) and a password manager (one button click to enter pw/username).
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The speed dial page is essentially the same as the new tab page that chrome has. it keeps the 8 most visited pages on there and a list of all the pages you've recently closed. The password manager is a pretty standard feature across the browsers nowadays.
I didn't like chrome's when I used it because it was like "you visit h/a a lot, heres a link to h/a. you also visit the boardgame thread a lot, heres a link to that. oh and you browse the pa comic, heres a link to that" when I really only need a link to the forum directory. Is it still like that?
While it's not a direct control, you're able to move, pin, and "delete" things off of the new tab page. So, with a little bit of time, you could set it up with the bookmarks you want.
Or, even better, when you first start using it, go to the sites you want bookmarked on that page first. Then go set up the page and pin them.
I don't know if there's an extension to add direct control.
Im hesitant to uninstall/downgrade because opera has a weird system for storing bookmarks and I'm not 100% sure that I could do it without messing something up somewhere.
Yeah I'm on the latest release. Opera's bookmark storage is all in the cloud if you've got that set up so you don't lose it when you uninstall/reinstall. Otherwise your bookmarks are likely in C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\bookmarks.adr