Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Shifting To Opera Again

I was an "Opera Fan" on my last college years but submitted to Firefox since then. In last couple of days I downloaded latest version of Opera (10.1) and started using it again. And guess what. I simply amazed. I will be using it as default on my laptop. There are some features that really makes it useful. Yes besides "Kool".

1. Fastest back button: [ Back button works immediately. Probably it caches the pages in memory but who cares...] This specially helps me playing browser based massive multilayer games ( You know one second delay might means a lot in your bad times )

2. Speed Dial: Ok ok. Other browsers do support it. Still there are some features like making it highly customizable keeps Opera apart.

3. Notes: You can keep notes in your browser. and you don't need an extra plug-in for it.

4. Opera turbo:
Admit - We all have slow Internet connections here in India. Don't we? Turbo makes highly compressed page and a little bit reduced image quality to fight that to 80%.

5. Opera links: Keeps your bookmark with you... wherever you are. [Except inside mariana trench probably ]

6. Ctrl + Z works: It reincarnate the closed tab. It is there with other browsers but not with fav ctrl + z.

7. Go to web address: Have a link in a page but not hyper-linked? Just right click ( or double click ) and select "Go to web address".

8. opera:config: Present in Firefox [about:config] but not in so organized and friendly manner.

9. Most perfect in following web standards: Only living browser with score 100/100 in ACID 3 test.


1o. Easter eggs n more: Till now I found .

a. Type /. in the address bar. It will take you to slashdot.org.

b. opera:drives will show the drives with directory ad all.