The Opera team has been working intensely on version 9.5, and we’ll hopefully be seeing weekly builds of those coming shortly. In the meantime they have whipped up Opera 9.22 which has significant improvements to the BitTorrent downloader.
I wasn’t expecting the results to be all that great because in the past the built-in BitTorrent was kind of slow (at least compared to a standalone program). I’ve been pleasantly surprised though, and having used the "improved" build for about a week I’ve noticed download speeds comparable to what I get with uTorrent. For example, when downloading the Ubuntu operating system I was able to max out my Internet connection. Previously Opera had a tough time using more than half of what my connection had to offer.
Aside from that the new version also adds support for the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in. Microsoft had said that Opera support for Silverlight would be coming soon, and they surprisingly didn’t lie. 
I’m still anxiously waiting to see what the Opera team is throwing into version 9.5 though. We know that it will do a great job with CSS3, and then there is some sort of feature that they’ve "censored" from a screenshot. Argh…the pain of having to wait can be enough to kill ya!
Download Opera 9.22 Build 8801
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Let us know when that comes out. I think I should give Opera another shot. I never really found the widgets all that useful, but I think even ignoring them Opera is a great browser. The two reasons I resist are site compatibility and IE7 menu-bar-less replication. I’ve noticed Opera is often incompatible, since for some reason it’s so unpopular, especially when it comes to webmail. Y!MB works in Opera (not officially) but it still lacks the right-click menus. They can be very useful. Also, at long last I was able to make Fx replicate IE7 very well. Any way I could do something like this with Opera?
Did I already have the “make Opera like IE7″ discussion with you, or was that with someone else on the site?
Ahh, okay, I wasn’t crazy. It was with you here:
http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2.....ment-99401
Anyways, there are skins that you can use to make Opera look like IE7, and the buttons I mentioned in the comment that I linked to tells you how to get rid of the Menu Bar.
Yeah, ur right. I got Opera and I actually really like it. Even with the default theme and setup. Looks way better than Fx default! The one BIG problem I’m having is no Yahoo! mail beta support :(. This sucks! I need Yahoo! Mail Beta. I found some workaround -actually the equivilant of IE tab for Opera- but it crashes the browser on Yahoo! Mail pages.
What doesn’t work for you in Yahoo Mail Beta? I just tried it out and everything seemed to run smoothly.
Huh? What version Opera and Y!MB u on? Did u try viewing messages in the reading pane? Tabbing messages? Using chat (it just said loading forever).
I tried everything except chat. I think you’re right that it doesn’t work. I’m on Opera 9.22 and how do I know what version of Yahoo! Mail Beta I’m using?
I can switch between tabs, reply to messages, and just about everything except chat.
Everything worked quickly and properly? When I tried, I would click a message in a folder and it would still say something like “want to view one of those messages up there…click on it.” Eventually it would load up. Actions were done very slowly if ever.
So you’re using the Opera 9.22 you linked to, not a testing version? That’s what I was on. To check your Y!MB version, hold alt and click on the Y!MB logo. You can also view page source and it should say it at the bottom (then you can copy and paste). Also, what’s your farm? It says that after the f in the address bar and as the first 3 digits after “web” in version info box.
Yep, I’m using the version of Opera that I linked to, it is the latest one. Here is the info from the popup box (by the way, that is a cool little trick
):
us.f633.mail.yahoo.com
version: 0.6.7
build: 651.41
06/25/2007 12:40 PM
web63311.mail.re1.yahoo.com
Yup, same version and build (although I’m on f308).
K, I re-installed Opera. The site is mostly usable, but messenger is not, it’s noticeably slower, and actions don’t go thru occasionally. Messenger alone is enough to make it not an option.
Hey, just ran simultaneous downloads of the same torrent file ~350MB in both Opera and Fx w/ FireTorrent. Opera won hands down! I actually didn’t realize that Opera was done, at first. By the time I realized it Fx still had over 2/3 to go!
One other thing, I can’t find a way to adjust torrent preferences except for from the button when starting a torrent download. Options in Opera are definitely harder to find.
When blocking content (ads) in Opera, what’s the difference between clicking something and shift clicking something?
I actually don’t block ads in Opera so I’m not 100% sure what you need to do it. There are content filters from what I’ve read and you can get the filter list from here:
http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/ad-block
And I’m not sure what the difference is with shift clicking, other than if you do it on a link it opens in a new tab. All of the keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures can be configured in the options though.
Use opera:config in the address bar to access almost all of the options, and just type bittorent in the search box.
If you right-click and hit Block Content, a toolbar shows up that says “Click on content you want to block. to block a specific element, shift+click.”
I was wondering if there were filter lists to subscribe to, like ABP. Those are very important because there are so many ads to block. Wait, I checked that site and it says “Large urlfilter.ini file will increase startup time of Opera.” Nevermind.
I changed my mind and added the “optimized filter to block most ads” from that site. No noticeable difference in performance, yet nearly all ads are gone. The best part is the site often fills in where the ad was, so I don’t just have a big blank space in the site (no better than an ad in my opinion). Also, I’m really getting hooked on that “reload every…” feature. I keep Y! TV always open, and now I can just set it to reload every 30min and so I never have to manually scroll the listings, they’re always on the current time
One annoyance. If I use the view toolbar (button on right), and change tabs, I find myself having to click the button several times to hide the bar again (once for each tab). If I close the view bar in one tab, it should be closed in every tab.
I love that “reload every” feature as well. You can also use it with the sites on your speed dial page so that those refresh periodically as well.