OperaFox 0.9, the new Munin

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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



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

Impressive smile Thank you smile

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. smile

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 smile

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 smile.
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 smile).

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 smile

Technorat Monday, February 19, 2007 6:24:59 PM

hrhr. Well done

Haavardhaavard Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:23:31 PM

You need Opera to use opera:config.

What are you trying to achieve? What do you want to tweak?

WildEnte Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:53:08 AM

and where is the comment you answered to? lost in the my.opera nimbus? It was here last time I looked.

Haavardhaavard Wednesday, November 28, 2007 7:54:33 AM

Maybe it was deleted because of the "I want to kill you" part... smile

Rijk Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:34:04 PM

Quite. I would have deleted Haavard's reply as well, but he has some super powers that make that impossible.

Richard ARAMWolff47 Friday, May 30, 2008 11:31:43 PM

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ! ! !

InfiniteJiminfinitejim Friday, June 13, 2008 7:03:26 AM

Oh sh**., I actually like it the original way. How do I go back? Help and thanks. Jim

Rijk Friday, June 13, 2008 9:48:24 AM

@infinitejim: Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Toolbars

Arsenytarc Friday, November 12, 2010 12:03:09 PM

it is awesome!

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