Comments on: Opera 10.50 Pre-Alpha Is Here! http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/ Web Browser News and Reviews. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Tiago Sá http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/#comment-83264 Tiago Sá Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:33:42 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=3388#comment-83264 Because that's so much better than dragging and dropping? Well, it's not. It's not on laptops or similar stuff, and it's not even on desktops with proper mouses. Dragging and dropping is always easier. Because that’s so much better than dragging and dropping? Well, it’s not. It’s not on laptops or similar stuff, and it’s not even on desktops with proper mouses. Dragging and dropping is always easier.

]]> By: Tiago Sá http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/#comment-83263 Tiago Sá Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:32:46 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=3388#comment-83263 Don't doubt that for a moment my friend. Chrome is the most simplistic non-useful piece of browsing crap in existence. Bookmarks are a pain, searches are a pain, tabs are a pain too, in many ways, and it doesn't read RSS... Last time I checked, at least. Don’t doubt that for a moment my friend. Chrome is the most simplistic non-useful piece of browsing crap in existence. Bookmarks are a pain, searches are a pain, tabs are a pain too, in many ways, and it doesn’t read RSS… Last time I checked, at least.

]]> By: kryz http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/#comment-83229 kryz Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:20:55 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=3388#comment-83229 "swimming upstream works only for so long" What are you talking about? 10.5 is using Presto 2.5. In-between they've been working on Presto 2.3 and 2.4. Video was in at one point but apparently had to be taken out just before release. How is Opera swimming upstream when they've been working on all these things you see in 10.5 for all this time? "theyve dwelled into strange areas as unite and link and widgets, completly neglecting that their browser was outdated and simply unpleasant to use sometimes" Yeah, God forbid Opera spends time on things that make them money! How is something they are making money from a "strange area"? And with two Presto versions before the one in 10.5 how can you claim that they have neglected anything? Clearly they have been doing anything BUT neglecting it, and have been working on this all along (at the SAME TIME as widgets and Unite). Looks like some people think Opera can only work on one thing at a time. “swimming upstream works only for so long”

What are you talking about? 10.5 is using Presto 2.5. In-between they’ve been working on Presto 2.3 and 2.4. Video was in at one point but apparently had to be taken out just before release.

How is Opera swimming upstream when they’ve been working on all these things you see in 10.5 for all this time?

“theyve dwelled into strange areas as unite and link and widgets, completly neglecting that their browser was outdated and simply unpleasant to use sometimes”

Yeah, God forbid Opera spends time on things that make them money! How is something they are making money from a “strange area”?

And with two Presto versions before the one in 10.5 how can you claim that they have neglected anything? Clearly they have been doing anything BUT neglecting it, and have been working on this all along (at the SAME TIME as widgets and Unite).

Looks like some people think Opera can only work on one thing at a time.

]]> By: Ichan http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/#comment-83224 Ichan Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:55:45 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=3388#comment-83224 Yes Oper was identifying itself as IE due to opera:config#UserAgent|SpoofUserAgentID being set to 3 instead of Opera (1) They neeed to add a setting in preferences to change this globally. I do not mess around with the config page too much unless If I need to enable a specific setting or if I need to bypass a artificial limit Cant wait for the beta Yes Oper was identifying itself as IE due to opera:config#UserAgent|SpoofUserAgentID being set to 3 instead of Opera (1)

They neeed to add a setting in preferences to change this globally. I do not mess around with the config page too much unless If I need to enable a specific setting or if I need to bypass a artificial limit

Cant wait for the beta

]]> By: nobody http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/#comment-83193 nobody Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:44:32 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=3388#comment-83193 yep. im, however, it was obvious that they are going to add it, swimming upstream works only for so long. btw, theyve chosen stupid way of handling right clicks, wish list suggestions were better (display BOTH menus side by side) because opera' context menu is actualy usefull. so theyve changed one very wrong behavior with another, a bit better. C-, could do better in this case :) what i do not like is the new find in page position and details - it moves the page down (this is counteruntuitive!) and it obscures page with that overlay. it looks great (like safari) but it doesnt help you find what you want. anyway, after months of polish and fixing constant crashing, it at least is a modern browser again. theyve dwelled into strange areas as unite and link and widgets, completly neglecting that their browser was outdated and simply unpleasant to use sometimes. what i find strange and dangerous is the number of crashes, i dont know how opera does unitTests, but letting so many crashers into the code is a bad sign, however, it depends on their development process. btw - mouse gestures are broken, somthing is messed with sensitivity. yep. im, however, it was obvious that they are going to add it, swimming upstream works only for so long.

btw, theyve chosen stupid way of handling right clicks, wish list suggestions were better (display BOTH menus side by side) because opera’ context menu is actualy usefull.
so theyve changed one very wrong behavior with another, a bit better.

C-, could do better in this case :)

what i do not like is the new find in page position and details – it moves the page down (this is counteruntuitive!) and it obscures page with that overlay. it looks great (like safari) but it doesnt help you find what you want.

anyway, after months of polish and fixing constant crashing, it at least is a modern browser again. theyve dwelled into strange areas as unite and link and widgets, completly neglecting that their browser was outdated and simply unpleasant to use sometimes.

what i find strange and dangerous is the number of crashes, i dont know how opera does unitTests, but letting so many crashers into the code is a bad sign, however, it depends on their development process.

btw – mouse gestures are broken, somthing is messed with sensitivity.

]]> By: Somebody http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/#comment-83190 Somebody Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:16:50 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=3388#comment-83190 They said that they will merge 10.2 into 10.5 in the Desktop team blog. Regarding the Video element, Dstorey talked about it in Twitter. Right click menu also works now in google maps. Nobody must be happy :) . They said that they will merge 10.2 into 10.5 in the Desktop team blog.
Regarding the Video element, Dstorey talked about it in Twitter.

Right click menu also works now in google maps. Nobody must be happy :) .

]]> By: Daniel Hendrycks http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/#comment-83179 Daniel Hendrycks Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:38:57 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=3388#comment-83179 Nevermind, I found the answers. I didn't read the Desktop Team post in full because I thought it was practically a repost. But there where some differences. Nevermind, I found the answers. I didn’t read the Desktop Team post in full because I thought it was practically a repost. But there where some differences.

]]> By: Daniel Hendrycks http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/#comment-83173 Daniel Hendrycks Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:38:22 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=3388#comment-83173 Where did they say they would merge 10.2 with 10.5? Where did they say they would merge 10.2 with 10.5?

]]> By: bingo007 http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/#comment-83167 bingo007 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:29:43 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=3388#comment-83167 once you select a text,right click and choose 'search with' and select your search engine once you select a text,right click and choose ‘search with’ and select your search engine

]]> By: Rachid http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-50-pre-alpha-is-here/#comment-83164 Rachid Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:23:08 +0000 http://www.favbrowser.com/?p=3388#comment-83164 Hi, I decided to do some benchmarking myself and give insight in what I did and how I did it, following scientific guidelines. The results seem very consistent and you can find them here: http://www.rachid.nl/browsers/ Please take a look at it and let me know what you think. I appreciate all feedback. :) Of course, whoever wants to, can link to the url mentioned. Hi,

I decided to do some benchmarking myself and give insight in what I did and how I did it, following scientific guidelines.

The results seem very consistent and you can find them here:
http://www.rachid.nl/browsers/

Please take a look at it and let me know what you think. I appreciate all feedback. :)

Of course, whoever wants to, can link to the url mentioned.

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