Wednesday, 19. July 2006, 23:12:46
life, me
Tomorrow (oops, I mean in a few hours) we'll drive south for a while, to see if hot weather in France is more pleasurable than hot weather in the Netherlands. I've no idea of the level of connectedness of the camping we'll be staying
at, so maybe there will be a photo album added soon, and maybe not
Anyway, I'll be mostly offline for at least two weeks!
Tuesday, 11. July 2006, 12:57:27
configuration, tweak, opera, mailto
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[2008-09-26: updated to better show way to do this in 9.5]
For those of you who've switched to using web-based mail, it might not be intuitive how to use links with "mailto:" URLs. You'll have to change the handling of mailto-links, to pass the address to a webmail service, instead of a mail application on your computer.
In
Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Programs, select 'mailto' and press 'Edit'. Enter 'opera' in the 'other application' field. Then use the addresses below to put in the 'Parameter' field:
Note: in Opera 9.2, you put both together in the single field, as in 'opera "http://etc"' (without the single quotes).GMailhttp://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%m&cc=%c&bcc=%b
Hotmailhttp://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?To=%t&Subject=%s&Body=%m&Cc=%c&mailto=1
Yahoo Mailhttp://compose.mail.yahoo.com/?To=%t&Subject=%s&Body=%m&Cc=%c
Netscape Mailhttp://webmail.netscape.com/compose.adp?mailto=%t&mailcc=%c&mailsubject=%s&mailbody=%m
Mail.comhttp://mail01.mail.com/scripts/mail/Outblaze.mail?composeto=%t&subject=%s&body=%m&cc=%c&compose=1
Opera Web Mailhttp://mymail.operamail.com/scripts/mail/Outblaze.mail?compose=1&did=1&a=1&to=%t&subject=%s&body=%m&cc=%c
Hordeopera "http://YOUR_HordeURL_HERE.com/horde/imp/compose.php?popup=0&to=%t&cc=%c&msg=%m&subject=%s"
Squirrelmailhttp://YOUR_SquirrelURL_HERE.com/src/compose.php?send_to=%t&subject=%s&body=%m&send_to_cc=%c
Generichttp://YOUR_URL_HERE/?To_Field=%t&Subject_Field=%s&Body_Field=%m&Cc_FLield=%c
Test:
mailto-linkButton:
toggle between M2 and webmail -
in theory at least, this makes my Opera 9 crashy...
Tuesday, 4. July 2006, 01:07:20
opera, firefox, extensions, widgets
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Updated again: the extensions list, and the summary below, was last updated 2007-06-08, taking into account the new Addons site. Lots of sleazy spyware toolbars were finally removed. Added a few corrections based on comments here at 2007-06-17. Added a few more correction at 2007-07-29. Thanks!Updated: the extensions list, and the summary below, was last updated 2006-12-09, taking into account the Firefox 2 release that made some extensions obsolete. Firefox out-of-the-box is catching up to Opera Based on
initial research 
from
Dodd in the my.opera.com forums, I've compiled a list of the Top 150
most popular Firefox extensions, and classified the availability of the functionality they offer in Opera.
extensions.htmlSome extensions are Firefox-specific (only relevant for managing Firefox itself), and there is considerable overlap in functionality for several extensions. That leaves the following summary:
- 41 extensions offer out of the box functionality in Opera 9, with roughly equivalent capability,
- 13 extensions are available by installing a UserScript or a Widget or dragging a button,
- 17 extensions require advanced customization or are only partially available,
- 45 extensions are not available at all in Opera.
[updated]After the December 3, 2006 update, out of 96 sets of extensions:
- 32 (sets of) extensions offer out of the box functionality in Opera 9, with roughly equivalent capability,
- 11 (sets of) extensions are available by installing a UserScript or a Widget or dragging a button,
- 13 (sets of) extensions require advanced customization or are only partially available,
- 40 (sets of) extensions are not available at all in Opera,
- 3 extensions are are Firefox specific (like dictionaries).
[updated again]After the July 29, 2007 update, out of 113 sets of extensions:
- 38 (sets of) extensions offer out of the box functionality in Opera 9, with roughly equivalent capability,
- 14 (sets of) extensions are available by installing a UserScript or a Widget or dragging a button,
- 21 (sets of) extensions require advanced customization or are only partially available,
- 38 (sets of) extensions are not available at all in Opera,
- 4 extensions are Firefox specific.
Corrections are welcome, but only from people who have actually studied both the extension and Opera's behavior. 'why would I need it' is a valid reaction to some extensions, but will probably not lead to changes in the table
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