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Opera Extensions: AutoPatchWork

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Probably the most useful extension I've ever seen for Opera 11 is the AutoPatchWork also known as AutoPagerize userjs.
No, I'm not the author but I'm using the userjs for quite some time now and I hope to see more and more ppl installing it.

What it does, is when you scrolldown a page and it notices there are more pages it automatically inserts the content below so you don't need to click "page 2" or something like that. It's really useful and it works with a lot of pages such as google, photo galleries, message boards, forums, etc.

Since the author didn't mind uploading his state-of-the-art extension I modified it a bit and uploaded to my blog with a lot of things fixed (thanks to Penge4)


Download Link: http://files.myopera.com/Cyro/files/AutoPatchWork.oex // MODIFIED BY ME
Mirror: http://www.multiupload.com/FDL64ZM4HD // JUST IN CASE

Link: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=874542
Download Link: http://ss-o.net/opera/extension/ // ORIGINAL

Tips and Tricks to make Opera lightweight

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As seen in here, I'm trying to customize one Opera installation to help me with this scenario:

- Processor: 300 MHz
- Memory: 128MB RAM SDRAM
- Disk: 2GB
- OS: Windows 2000 SP4
- Network: very fast broadband connection.

This is what I have so far:
- Use a native skin;
- Disable thumbnails - opera:config#UserPrefs|UseThumbnailsinTabTooltips and opera:config#UserPrefs|UseThumbnailsinWindowCycle;
- Disable PageIndex opera:config#UserPrefs|MaxVisitedPagesIndexSize;
- Disable Automatic RAM cache opera:config#UserPrefs|AutomaticRAMCache (decreases memory usage);
- Remove or disable unneeded plugins (i.e. Java & Quicktime);
- Disable Smooth Scrolling - opera:config#UserPrefs|SmoothScrolling;
- Disable Favicons - opera:config#Multimedia|Alwaysloadfavicon;
- Disable Speed dial (state=3) - opera:config#UserPrefs|SpeedDialState;
- Disable Wand - opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableWand;
- Disable fraud protection.

Some other people such as Lamarca provided even more tips for my scenario.
- Disable javascript;
- Empty cache on exit.

I've seen several people complaining (specially Fearphage) about something called "Opera Lite". The devs often say it's not necessary and I agree with them. If you customize Opera in a certain way, you can actually make it faster. Basically, it's our full Opera with all the features listed above disabled by default. I just wish this "Opera Lite" setup could be downloaded directly from the website.