Opera Problems? New browser...go?

starmanbrand

omg dbl h/a post.

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).

wmelon

Chrome is quite awesome now. I used to use Firefox as my primary browser and felt the way you did about it. But I tried the latest build a few months ago and was hooked. It's so much faster than Firefox and there are extensions to do just about everything I could want.

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.

kuhlmeye

Chrome is my primary browser. I also used to use FF, but switched over to chrome about a year ago now. It is significantly faster than FF, both to open and to load pages and whatnot. Like melon said, the new tab page shows your 8 most visited pages, which you can rearrange to your liking. Password manager is pretty standard fare nowadays, Google's app page is up and running, and it's getting more extensions pretty much all the time.

starmanbrand

The important feature of the speed dial, though, is that its more of a visual bookmark list. Open new tab and it displays a grid of sites that I define ( I use the 4x4 set and my top row is school/business, second is social networking, and so on).

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?

wmelon

oh no.. it uses the 8 most visited domains

BoomShake

starmanbrand wrote: »

The important feature of the speed dial, though, is that its more of a visual bookmark list. Open new tab and it displays a grid of sites that I define ( I use the 4x4 set and my top row is school/business, second is social networking, and so on).

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.

TychoCelchuuu

My Opera does all those things fine so I would just try uninstalling/reinstalling first.

ceres

Is there a way to downgrade? This is why I haven't upgraded to O11, despite loving O10.

starmanbrand

are you on O11, Tycho?

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.

TychoCelchuuu

starmanbrand wrote: »

are you on O11, Tycho?

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