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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Argo on January 23, 2004, 11:28:49 PM
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There is a new beta out for the next version of Opera. Opera 7.5 Preview 1 (http://my.opera.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=31)
Has anyone tried it yet? I just downloaded it, quite a few changes. Just though some of the other Opera users here would like to take a peek.
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Test it against the sites listed by people at this URL (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=41030&highlight=)?
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Didn't Opera find life on the Amiga? Not as an Amiga browser but was it not originally written on one?
I was not aware of a new release, I'll check it out now, hopefully they will have taken care of some of the bugs they introduced with 7.23.
With the ability to open up all pages within one interface, resume to the last page you were one after a crash, PLUS be able to browse faster than any other browser (I should know I'm on dial up), this is the choice for me!
My only big complaint about Opera is it is not safe to download with it, if a download takes to long, it may randomly start re-downloading a file which ends up corrupting it.
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beta! no way! i never beta test on windows! that's asking for trouble
:-x
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Just installed and tried 30 min.
G R E A T !
Rendering engine of the pages it's even better than v.7.23 (bit faster and found just 1 website with problems: http://www.altromercato.it) and everything still compact as usual (installer is 3,6mb).
Wish OS4 can get such a decent browser one day: who knows...
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A bit OT:
Wow, Opera fans are... fanatic!
I mean, my heart has skipped a beat a couple of times over Mozilla Firebird, but the level of devotion these people show is scary.
Not that that's something we haven't encountered before...
(http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/commodore_amiga-500.jpg)
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Didn't Opera find life on the Amiga? Not as an Amiga browser but was it not originally written on one?
An amiga team was 'formed' and given permission to port the code. As far as I remember, after months and months not a line of code was ever presented for the amiga and the folks at opera withdrew their offer to support the project. I'm pretty sure the first version was for windows. A mac version quickly followed, and then later ports to unix/linux. But my memory fails sometimes. I love using it on my linux and win-boxes. Closest thing to amiga like on a non-amiga for me. I havn't tried that new beta yet. I think I'm still on 7.3 or 7.4
Plaz
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Make sure you report it.
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I've been running the preview version of Opera v7.5 for several weeks and it works very well. Although the Opera preview versions are pre-beta versions, it has been very stable on my system.
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I'm still using Opera 7.21. Does everything I need and it's stable, so I'm not budging from it just yet :-D
cecilia wrote:
beta! no way! i never beta test on windows! that's asking for trouble
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Running anything on Windows is asking for trouble :-P
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Vincent wrote:
I'm still using Opera 7.21. Does everything I need and it's stable, so I'm not budging from it just yet :-D
cecilia wrote:
beta! no way! i never beta test on windows! that's asking for trouble
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Running anything on Windows is asking for trouble :-P
exactly! i'm so paraniod about changing anything. Because Opera is basically self-contained in it's own dir, i'm less worried about it. but i sweat everytime i think about adding anything!
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I'm crossing my finguers for IBrowse3.0, if they get the listed features it's gonna be a uniquer and cool small fast browser....
p.s.(hope we didn't do simultaneous editing this time... :-D )
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Opera is a great browser but there should be a standalone version to complement it (like Firebird).
The windows native skin looks terrible and to me this version looks like a downgrade than a upgrade.
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Okay, I've only been using it for a couple of days. I have to say very cool. I hope it's released "Real Soon Now!"
I went to the Moz forum to pointed to. Pages worked pretty good, I didn't notice anything odd except on one. The CSS drop down menus was it, they didn't pop down in the right spot. I though that concept was very nice, much better than the javascript menus.
Looking at the topics in the Moz forums and the Opera forums, there seem to be what I consider an odd rivalry. Basically, it's not who's browser has more bell and whistle features or better skin, but who is more standards compliant and what pages really show this off. I though that was astoundingly wonderful. Mainly, it looked to be revolving around cutting edge CSS, which both handle nicely except for their own little faults. Both side seem to have a hard time finding pages that work perfectly in their browser and not in the other( no matter how small the issue may be).
Of all the CSS examples they threw at each other, even the ones that were just alittle off on one of the browsers, all were mangled by IE (the "Superior" browser).
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and THAT insistence on being legal code compliant is why I use and love opera!!!
and why i'd rather shoot myself than use IE!!!
amiga browsers have to get this same passion or they will be left out!
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Opera 7.5 is working great, every Amiga oriented sites that I´m on regulary, works. :-)
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Does Opera 7.5 look any different to previous 7x releases?
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Amiperson2K3 wrote:
The windows native skin looks terrible and to me this version looks like a downgrade than a upgrade.
you do realize you can get a million skins - some of which look incredible!
I'm using Tobs Theater paper at the moment.
and you can change it while you surf! as many times as you like!!!
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Sckool DOS skin! Giggity, Giddity, Giggity, oh, yeah!