DaveyBoy — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:24:56 +0000

What you should really be asking is why you can't access the advanced stuff from the toolbar

Heh.

Megan — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:41:26 +0000

Jeeves - have you noticed what it adds to right-click? Awesome! Under Edit Site Preferences there are some Web Developer options and Advanced Options. So you don't even have to make that toolbar visible, it's all on right click!

Actually, I think some of the advanced options aren't even in the toolbar. They have Find Page Owner via whois (nice), backward links via google, view in split screen mode (also nice) and a bunch of other stuff. Bug me not! I was looking for that last week but couldn't remember what it was called.

I SO love this! Need a heart smiley here

DaveyBoy — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:03:48 +0000

Aye i think i might

Nah to each their own and everything, I use it for testing and that's all

Megan wrote:

Some of us here are really big Opera fans so you'll find that we talk about it a lot.

Just you and Jeeves huh

JeevesBond — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:13:19 +0000

Acadia wrote: Is Opera a personal preference thing, or is it yet another thing I should know about but don't?

It certainly is something you should know about! Whether you choose it as your browser or not you should definately install it on your PC and use it for testing. It works on Linux, OS X and that other OS I forget the name of. It's also, by far, the best browser for a mobile phone or PDA.

In the words of Abhishek Reddy:

Quote: It stands head and shoulders above its chest

(Although I think he borrowed that from Clive Anderson)

Anyway, it's great, and we can't stop ranting about it. Am worried that at some point DaveyBoy is going to go mad if we carry on!

Megan — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:46:48 +0000

Acadia wrote: Is Opera a personal preference thing, or is it yet another thing I should know about but don't?

Opera is a web browser. It has many more features built-in than any other browser available. Check this thread for some more info about what Opera has to offer. It's really more of a power user's browser. You should check it out

Some of us here are really big Opera fans so you'll find that we talk about it a lot.

Busy — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:35:33 +0000

JeevesBond wrote: Heyup Busy, you giving Opera a go?

I've had Opera for yonks, went from IE to Opera but then found Firefox.
I think the ads put me off Opera, then the dom problem (this is going back a while), and Firefox has grown on me. I do use opera to test sites and some sites that have no image save that actually works on FF I can use Opera to grab them.
The web developer bar in ff was also a good pulling tool, but as opera now has something similar ...

DaveyBoy — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:07:31 +0000

JeevesBond wrote: Heyup Busy, you giving Opera a go?

On a more successful note: Middle-clicking on a link opens the tab in the background.

Firefox too

Acadia — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:57:58 +0000

Is Opera a personal preference thing, or is it yet another thing I should know about but don't?

JeevesBond — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:38:38 +0000

Heyup Busy, you giving Opera a go?

All you need to do is right-click on the link and select "Open in background tab" instead of "Open in new tab" It's the next item down. I like both and use them interchangeably without even thinking about it. Not sure if there's a way to make it behave like that by default.

I think it's a reasonable assumption that when opening a link you're going to want to view the page immediately.

*** EDIT ***
Just had a quick rummage in opera:config and couldn't find anything to change the default behavior.

On a more successful note: Middle-clicking on a link opens the tab in the background.

Busy — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:56:36 +0000

Like firefox does, right click open in new tab or in operas terms, open in new page - not a new window and keeping the focus on the original page.

It's only a small thing but big enough to stop me from converting over