Rijk - OperaFox 0.9, the new Munin

OperaFox 0.9, the new Munin

Sunday, February 4, 2007 5:26:09 PM

opera, opera9, customization, screenshot, firefox

After Hugin, here's the 9.x update for Munin. But it's now called OperaFox. Munin was originally designed as a simplified Opera, inspired by Firefox. But since Opera 8, the default Opera setup is already simplified and hides the mail stuff etc. So while I still use Hugin myself, I don't use Munin anymore.

OperaFox 0.9
For those who like the Firefox experience, here's a setup that tries to mimic the Firefox look and feel. You can even download a keyboard shortcuts setup that makes Opera behave just like Firefox/MSIE (at the cost of making some Opera-specific shortcuts more complex). The toolbar and menu should both the installed for this setup to work correctly. The shortcuts are optional. The nice skin using Firefox and Thunderbird icons was made by Ralf Demuth.

Edit 2007-04-17: the links point to 9.2-compatible setups now

text-shadow supportSerious bug in new My Opera (solved)

Comments

Robert Błautquiris # Sunday, February 4, 2007 5:59:40 PM

Impressive

Thank you

Martinmax17 # Sunday, February 4, 2007 9:32:13 PM

o lol

ChristianResearchWizard # Sunday, February 4, 2007 10:25:34 PM

Hi Rijk!
Thanks, I really like your skinning approaches and I'm impressed by the different setups you deliver with OperaFox / Munin, Hugin and especially your Twelve setup...
I like the new name and hope there will also be a more descriptive name for Hugin - OperaMail, M2Bird (Opera's M2 really makes your mails flying :-) ).

It is quite a bit of work as I experience by helping Blinkybill with his IE7 clone - the look is already very very close to IE7 (including program icon, menus etc), but we still have problems with some button/menu funcionality and with little Opera bugs (esp. a misplaced dropdown arrow, which is an old problem according to Tomu and a sequence with "zoom to" in buttons since Opera9 - bug-245535). It is of course a shame to have the power of Opera stripped down to IE functionality but at least you keep the speed and security. Well, our skinning efforts slowed down the last months, but we'll have worked around the problems some time. Maybe a variation of it will be a successor to your Kiss setup some day.

With hopefully enhanced capabilities in Opera10 (e.g. seemless integration of online bookmarks, automatic saving of online forms while writing the way M2 already does and archiving own contributions a la notes) there could even follow another ODict being the better Flock ;-)

Happy week
Christian

Rijk # Sunday, February 4, 2007 11:01:26 PM

Thanks Christian. I must say I was impressed with that IE7 screenshot, and at first suspected a fake! A lot of special tweaking must have gone into that one.

GeekK # Sunday, February 4, 2007 11:25:45 PM

Well done. Maybe it's a good idea to mention it on the Get started page.

andol # Monday, February 5, 2007 9:47:21 PM

Rijk, to make it really Firefox-like, you need a proper language file, utilizing the title-style capitalization. Compare the screenshots at http://my.opera.com/revised/blog/revised-intro

WildEnte # Tuesday, February 6, 2007 3:35:26 AM

as a side note .... rijk, why do you use a font on your page here that makes my eyes bleed? seems like it's mimicking cleartype, but actually it just looks blurred....

And I can't believe that IE7 skin is not an IE7 screenshot (c:=

blinkybill # Tuesday, February 6, 2007 5:46:27 AM

Hi Rijk,

I think you have done a great job with your OperaFox 0.9 skin and I
wish you every success with it. Thanks for your comments and actually I have gotten used to people thinking that it is a IE7 screenshot

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Yes I have done a huge amount of tweaking and still have more yet to do.

cheers
blinky

Rijk # Tuesday, February 6, 2007 7:58:45 AM

@WildEnte:
I use this:

#content {font-family: Corbel, "Bitstream Vera Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;}

None of these fonts cause weirdness on my LCD screens with Cleartype enabled.

@Andol:
For further perfection I would also need to replace strings completely. But that breaks localization (and is more work

WildEnte # Tuesday, February 6, 2007 8:57:01 PM

rijk: I guess that's the point. I have clear-type _disabled_ because I find clear-type makes fonts blurry and ugly (and my eyes start watering after a pretty short time). the font you use looks as if I had enabled cleartype just for your site. Nevermind - you do what you like best for your realm here (c;=

Rijk # Tuesday, February 6, 2007 11:32:48 PM

The new MS fonts like Corbel are optimized for use with Cleartype, maybe that is a problem. Though they are supposed to be fine for printing as well.

Anyway, it is a good thing you use a browser that allows finegrained control to override my choices. Or you could uninstall the font