Thoughts about Opera

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:38 pm

Patrick wrote:I played around for a little bit with Opera. It worked fine but the interface was not as intuitive as firefox or konqueror.

I dont get what part of the interface is NOT intuitive. This is the most intuitive interface that I have seen. I have start seen some of this interface on KDE, you see it on Konqueror side panel. Opera has this panels to display the transfers, Email, URL, History etc.

Opera also is the only browser that is completely workable throught the keyboard and also have complete control of the keystrokes. Opera has a db like to store the RSS which is great since you can label them store it or even email it striaght away. The quick reply make the reply of emails really easy.

Opera db is fast fast fast, is sqlite so we know is fast and queries are so effective. Opera doesnt use live bookmarks but real RSS catchers whcih are great since you get the description.

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:30 am

Jza wrote:Opera also is the only browser that is completely workable throught the keyboard and also have complete control of the keystrokes. Opera has a db like to store the RSS which is great since you can label them store it or even email it striaght away. The quick reply make the reply of emails really easy.

Opera db is fast fast fast, is sqlite so we know is fast and queries are so effective. Opera doesnt use live bookmarks but real RSS catchers whcih are great since you get the description.

While I do much prefer the way Opera uses RSS over the Firefox way, I like Konqueror's even better which is to use a different application specifically for RSS. I like this better because in the tray it will tell me how many unread articles there are in the feeds and I don't have to have a webbrowser always open.

I do however like the wand tool which seems a little more intuitive than Konq's method. I also like the zoom in and out feature.

I do wish Konqueror and Opera had as many extensions as Firefox though. (vote for this bug so Konq can at least get Greasemonkey support)

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:42 pm

CptnObvious999 wrote:
Jza wrote:Opera also is the only browser that is completely workable throught the keyboard and also have complete control of the keystrokes. Opera has a db like to store the RSS which is great since you can label them store it or even email it striaght away. The quick reply make the reply of emails really easy.

Opera db is fast fast fast, is sqlite so we know is fast and queries are so effective. Opera doesnt use live bookmarks but real RSS catchers whcih are great since you get the description.
While I do much prefer the way Opera uses RSS over the Firefox way, I like Konqueror's even better which is to use a different application specifically for RSS. I like this better because in the tray it will tell me how many unread articles there are in the feeds and I don't have to have a webbrowser always open.

I do however like the wand tool which seems a little more intuitive than Konq's method. I also like the zoom in and out feature.

I do wish Konqueror and Opera had as many extensions as Firefox though. (vote for this bug so Konq can at least get Greasemonkey support)

To a degree, you can do the same with Thunderbird, the only thing Thunberbird lack is the taskbar widget. Akregator is pretty I tried to use it but I am on the complete opposite position to you. I find it completely annoying to have a separate application for RSS read.

RSS is nothing more than URL's shooting at your client, the only reason why i need a URL is to view it on the browser. Akgregator once you click on the URL you got exactly what I got in opera from the start. A a panel from my RSS feeds and a browser on the other panel. So at the end you end up with the same layout.

One of the reasons why I am so loyal to Opera is because I have been having this feature ages before RSS was even heard off in Mozilla-Firefox-IE etc.

I think is on Opera version 6.5 and I thought it was the best thing ever and judging by the popularity I believe it is. Now Opera is on some other stuff triying to integrate the SPARQL for the potentail buzz word... the semantic web. Look it up on the W3C specs but it seems to be the new RSS and Opera is probably become the first browser SPARQL ready.