OperaBook

Index of my posts towards future Opera

When Opera copied Firefox's about:config and introduced Opera:config for advanced settings with Opera 9 I thought it is nice done but I also asked myself why they didn't take the whole thing further adding all the crowded settings of the preferences dialog together with the advanced Opera:config options and give it a nice and comfortable design. Get rid of this small preferences dialog window which I consider to be space inefficient, information hiding, likely to be unintuitive, inflexible on different screens and overall mostly harmful.

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Howcome (full name: Håkon Wium Lie) already presented Opera with build in video support (read Haavards post, watch a YouTube-video or the longer video posted by Daniel on Operawatch).

Recently an experimental Opera-video version for Windows with native support for Ogg Theora was made publicly available including some sample Theora video pages (OperaLabs, Howcomes page and Haavards post).

Although I'm not experienced with videos I had to go for this experiment and I think it is quite interesting and maybe it will help us to get rid at least a little bit of this nasty Flash world.

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I'm just using Opera on my notebook on the train - offline. It is really nice to read my downloaded email and some webpages opened before. But not only while traveling, also when I am somewhere with a minute paid low bandwidth Internet connection it is really convenient and cost saving to be online very short and afterward have all the time to read and write. I have a button to switch between online and offline mode.
Sometime ago I read about someone who had about 100+ tabs open and refreshes all of them with CTRL+F5 (for Win and Unix, CTRL+SHIFT+F5 on Mac OR CRTL+ALT+F5 for all platforms) when he happens to come across a hotspot to view them later. Wow, I think never managed to get more than about 100 pages (not because of Opera but because I have a different approach for surfing with usually 10-20 tabs open in my two installed Operas).


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For a while I see the yellow borders with form fields in Opera, just like the yellow wand forms. And I had no idea what they are good for. After some research I found following hint on Opera's help pages:

If Opera recognizes a form field as one you have entered information for in the Wand preferences, you can also use the Wand to fill in the field. Click the Wand button or press Ctrl+Enter.

Just go to Tools-Preferences (or CTRL+12) -Wand and fill out the fields for personal information (First name, Last Name, Homepage, City etc). As soon as there are corresponding fields on a web-page they are highlighted with yellow borders (just like the wand login) and all of those fields are filled out at once just by a click on the Wand button or CTRL+Enter.


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