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[edit 2008-06-15]Updates updated: made the setups offered here compatible with 9.5 Final. Same URLs, a few new versions.

I'm going from light blogging to no blogging apparently... a bad trend. I'm a little bit active on Twitter now, but not in a way that compares to my past blogging here. When 9.5 Final and Firefox 3 get released, I'll probably make an update for the Top 150 Extensions list.

But my customized setups can already use some updates, the 9.2 versions will have some broken functionality when used with Kestrel builds. So here are provisional 9.5-compatible setups, suitable for Kestrel Beta 2. Copying some description text from a blog post in April 2007 BTW

Below you can find the auto-install links, with links to old blog posts for some background info. Remember: use Ctrl+F12 > Advanced > Toolbars to get back to your previous menus, shortcuts and toolbars.

Twelve
Ribbon-inspired radical setup. Use the menu and toolbar together. Hide the main menu with Alt+F11 after tweaking the shortcuts.

• Twelve menu 0.40 0.41
  
• Twelve toolbar 0.40 0.42
  

Hugin
Mail-only setup. Use at least the menu and toolbar together.

• Hugin menu 2.60 2.62
  
• Hugin toolbar 2.61 2.62
  
• Hugin keyboard shortcuts 2.61 2.63
  

More Mail
Sort of a Hugin-lite that adds more mail-specific menus, shortcuts and buttons, but doesn't remove the browsing functionality. Use at least the menu and toolbar together.

• More Mail menu 2.60 2.62
  
• More Mail toolbar 2.60 2.62
  
• More Mail keyboard shortcuts 2.60 2.61
  

Bigger Menus
Just what it says.

• Bigger Menus 1.20 1.22
  

Classic Clutter
Return to the toolbar-bonanza of Opera 7.23. With an additional Startbar even...

• Classic Clutter toolbar 1.50
  

My Personal Setup
Use at least the menu and toolbar together.

• Rijk's menu 2.60 2.62
  
• Rijk's toolbar 2.65 2.67
  
• Rijk's keyboard shortcuts 2.75 2.77
  
• Gesture experiments for 7.2 (yeah, this mouse gesture setup is old)
  

I just finished tagging all existing postings (114) for this blog. The previous 'journal' system didn't support tagging, so I had some backlog to go through. I tried not to overdo it, and to focus on repeatables. This means avoiding the tags looking like a duplicate of the post title. I did hope the tag cloud (shown on the main blog page) would show more diverse font sizes, but it didn't really work out that way

I'm not going to quote every Opera Lover I find, but this one is nice because it indicates Opera is especially suited for those who spend a lot of time online:

right now, for the kind of wholesale surfing I do when perusing all those news sites, Opera is my champion.

Also found:

I have used the browser extensively in the last week and so has my wife. Both of us like it much better than either IC or Firefox. Easy of use and an ability to handle web site layouts that IE and Firefox mangle led us to the decision. We strongly suggest that you include it among your browsers. Maybe, like us, you will make it your principal browser.

People switch browsers all the time, in all directions. But sometimes they find it hard to write enthousiastically about Opera, because the Firefox fanboys start harassing them:

Evidently the only good things that are allowed to be said have to be about Firefox, and nothing bad can be said about Firefox, since that's the browser they use and if you say anything negative about it and/or say something else is better or god forbid that you think it's the greatest in the world they take it personally.

BTW, I'm aware there are Opera fanboys as well. They mostly seem to harass Firefox fans in the my.opera forums though, not on blogs around the world (except Asa's).

"opera browser"
Posts that contain "opera browser" per day for the last 30 days.


"opera mini"
Posts that contain "opera mini" per day for the last 30 days.

I've added a Dutch-language blog for Opera news. The blog will be named 'Haitink', honoring the famous Dutch Opera director.

Some people expressed their surprise when they learned that Opera 8 beta needs to have 'Sounds in webpages' enabled for the new 'Voice' functionality to work. But they should realise that the Voice implementation in Opera is interactive. I've now added a Voice intro to my webpage to show that it can be annoying:
http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/

Something else: one of my esteemed Swedish collegues, Nicklas Larsson, has started some serious blogging this year. Nine posts so far, one for each day!
http://my.opera.com/Kilsmo/journal