To you Opera lovers…

Does Opera have a google bookmarks extension (ala gmarks)? Opera’s inability to easily allow me access to google bookmarks across any of my computers I’m on makes it no-go. As far as I’m aware they don’t even have a concept like “foxmarks’ which lets you synch your bookmarks to a central repository and keep all you computers in sync (I’m mostly on my mac, but sometimes on a linux box at home, and at work I’m on windows, I like having all my bookmarks easily all synched without having to think about it. Personally I like google bookmarks bc the tag concept makes the most sense to me.)

Opera 9.5 (currently in Beta) has a feature similar to Foxmarks that is built-in. It synchronizes your bookmarks with their own server so that you are not relying on a third-party for storing them.

Does Opera have a google bookmarks extension (ala gmarks)? Opera’s inability to easily allow me access to google bookmarks across any of my computers I’m on makes it no-go. As far as I’m aware they don’t even have a concept like “foxmarks’ which lets you synch your bookmarks to a central repository and keep all you computers in sync (I’m mostly on my mac, but sometimes on a linux box at home, and at work I’m on windows, I like having all my bookmarks easily all synched without having to think about it. Personally I like google bookmarks bc the tag concept makes the most sense to me.)

Ayush wrote:

Dude wrote:

You can finally have tabs with behavior YOU like, not THEY think you will like…Virtually any aspect of tabbed browsing is tweakable.

Can you restore tabs ?

Yes, with Session Manager.

Minimize/Restore/Maximize

Dude wrote:

You can finally have tabs with behavior YOU like, not THEY think you will like…Virtually any aspect of tabbed browsing is tweakable.

Can you restore tabs ?

Yes, with Session Manager.

these features are just wasting HDD space and making setup larger.

Firefox’s setup/space usage is large even without all those features

yup. If the error page is a 404 page (generated by server) then you can use UserJS. If the page is generated by opera (standard opera error page) then you can edit your lang file to add links. And you can always edit menus/buttons to add these features ..

links panel

http://operawiki.info/WebDevToolbar

Can you restore tabs ?

because there is no need to use addons for those features.

Argh, forgot to mention, Opera is proprietary blob. So it released only when (and if) Opera Software will decide to do so. And if they’ll decide do not release or do not support something, nobody can override this. As a reasonable consequence there is no Opera for my favorite OS (x64 Kubuntu) at all. Cool, isn’t it? These guys are still refusing to support x64 platforms. Why they’re thinking I will run legacy 32-bit binary blob? Nope, I will not. Fortunately there is native x64 port of my favorite Firefox though

Opera 9.5 Alpha is going to support the 64-bit platform, and the 64-bit version of Firefox I don’t believe is officially done by Mozilla. I don’t like to use browsers that aren’t official.

And you made a lot of other good points in your previous post, but you should know that Opera does have web developer tools and completely customizable keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures. So you can customize what happens, for instance, when you middle-click on a tab. I would say that it has everything Tab Mix Plus does.

Don’t get me wrong…I use Firefox and Opera on a daily basis, but some of the things you mentioned Opera can indeed do. Most people just don’t give it a fair shot and are rather quick to criticize.

http://blog.genotrance.com/200.....ory-usage/

I still hit 200-300MB at times but that’s cause I don’t restart Firefox for days and run several tabs at a time, especially when I’m catching up on my feeds. IE is just as bad though, so the high memory usage seems to come with the territory…

Opera has plenty of features. Far more than I had w/ Fx even with extensions

But Opera does has FIXED SET of features. And their “widgets” thingie is pretty lame since it does not allows to alter browser behavior in significant manner.

With Firefox it is up to YOU to pick features YOU need, not features “THEY” (browser authors) think you need. So you can enjoy bu using program. While there is fewer features by brute count, there will MUCH MORE features USED BY YOU when you selected add-ons yourself since you pick only what you need. What is the clue in features count if you do not need ‘em? I do not need mail, irc or torrent in my browser, I have my favorite apps for these tasks and these features are just wasting HDD space and making setup larger.

As example of add-ons usefulness: there is ErrorZilla add-on for Firefox. When you hit dead site you do not have to see just a boring error message from browser. Instead, you given a choice. You can ping or traceroute server to get idea what’s wrong. Or use Google cache or Wayback Machine to get web site back in cached state (better than NOTHING, right?). Can the Opera do the same? No? Phew, typing long thingies by hands for each dead URL is dumb and boring thing.

And I did not noticed anything comparable with AdBlock Plus - nice AdBlocker with updateable block-lists and which is so comfortable to use.

And there is no anything like DTA aka Down Them All - nice downloader which is able to download files via several connections at once and integrates into browser nice, so it can DL all files on current page, etc.

As well as no things like WebDeveloper add-on. You do not have to be a real developer though, this thing is nice for advanced users as well who wants to take browser under their own control and get funny swiss army knife for the web.

And NoScript add-on is sort of JavaScript “firewall”.Opera has similar features but these are pretty limited compared to this thing.

And TabMixPlus is great.You can finally have tabs with behavior YOU like, not THEY think you will like.Actions on different clicks are configurable.As well as where tab closing button(s) are placed.Virtually any aspect of tabbed browsing is tweakable. Did not seen anything comparable in Opera or as any sort of add-ons.

Not to mention Opera has bunch of issues with web sites rendering of web sites.
At very least:
- JavaScript is Opera’s permanent pain in the a$$.Opera treats sites in its own unique way but due to strange marketing it failed to get popular enough to get counted by webmasters worldwide.Some sites are looking pretty broken or some features are not working or malfunctioning.These which rely on JavaScript is first example
- As another bad thing, Opera does not supports non-integer relative positioning in CSS. So, if web master wants to place elements by relative sizes in percents… well, opera will ignore non-integer part of percents. Let’s adimt that 1% on modern monitor is pretty decent value, usually between 10 to 16 pixels. So…if you like when www looks like if it was crafted by an axe and by the hammer, Opera is a right choice. Othervice … try to ask webmasters, they will tell you what they think about Opera. Prepare to hear something non-printable though. Beware, you can hear foul language, 18+ only!