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I don't really use buttons, extensions so gratuitously install, so often. So I like to hide them most of the time, leaving more screen real estate to the address line. That's achieved with this fine button:

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If you, like me, have a soft spot for tweaking search.ini using a plain text editor to customize that file to suite your personal needs in terms of searching, then you certainly came across the time consuming and unpleasant necessity to re-assign consecutive numbers to the search engines' .ini sections.

If you have the *nixish stream editor sed at hand (it is also available as pre-compiled windows binaries), then you can use the attached sed-script to automate the process of giving numbers to search engines.

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1live² ist eine Opera™ SpeedDial-Erweiterung, die den gerade auf dem WDR Radio Eins1ive gespielten Titel anzeigt und verschiedene Optionen beim Klick anbietet.

1live² is an Opera™ speeddial extension that shows you the song currently played on the German public WDR radio station ”Einslive“.

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This filter emulates the visuals of a color positive film developed C-41. That procedure – also known as ”cross processing“ has some amazing effects on contrast and color balance oft the image.

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Legal considerations around the U.S. Patent No. 5,838,906, currently held by infamous Eolas company for the single purpose of "defending" it, forces Opera to abstain from implementing any measures that could be interpreted as ”invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects“.

Therefore the user of Opera has to take the burden to ”click-to-activate“ a Flash applet in a web page first, before he is able to use it and interact with it.

This ”click-to-activate“-hassle can be removed individually by an Opera-user on his end (and in his own responsibility!) by patching the Opera binary code.

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