That’s right, when you use Opera as your browser you can turn off all pop-ups, pop-unders, pop-behinds, and every other kind of pop.
To do so, all you have to do is press F12 on your keyboard, and choose “refuse pop-up windows” from the menu that is displayed. Or you can choose to have them open […]
By right clicking anywhere on a page and choosing Reload Every, then an increment of time, Opera will automatically refresh that page every X amount of time. This can be great for stock market sites, web-based email clients (to automatically notify you when you have new mail), forums, frequently updated news sites, etc.
I recently used […]
Mouse Gestures are pretty much the best thing since the back button. There is a full list of the mouse gestures supported in Opera at the Opera web site. Right-click and drag left has become so natural to me that when I am forced to use IE to test a site, I am constantly very […]
As of version 7.11, Opera is only a 3.1mb download. That includes the web browser, mail client, and newsreader. If you need to download java with Opera, it is 12.5mb, but that is not a requirement. Compare that to Netscape 7.1’s 29.3mb, Safari’s 6.3mb, Camino’s 7.6mb OmniWeb 4.2.1’s 3.2mb, Mozilla’s 12mb, Internet Explorer’s 11mb to […]
My main problem with other browsers like IE and Netscape is that they are terribly slow. Slow to startup, and slow to render pages. Netscape is especially slow at startup, taking over 15 seconds sometimes even on my Pentium 4 2.4ghz machine at work. IE is a little faster, but I still dread having to […]