Opera Add-ons

Unite was what brought me to Opera... Very disappointed...

so man up with the extensions, nice stuff like notification popup like webking has

webkitNotifications.createHTMLNotification('blabla.html')

would be nice, especially I like how its 'on the top' over the other windows.
Its also really neat idea to leave the background processes running in the background even when you close the browser and receive notifications. Of course assuming that memory consumption is in check.

support for mp3 is probably not coming, but what should come is firefly not closing popup window when we are debuging and have to alt tab... saving css in to file we are working on through dragonfly might be neat as well, with css auto-complete yay.

The problem with constant css zoom error with latest jquery should be addressed as well, either talk to the jquery guys or set some ignore on that, even if you would bent some popes html specification.

Also more short examples and more videos on how to make extensions. I am a newbie your support is great, and I had no problem starting, but it could be more rich...

Oh ONE MORE THING WHICH IS DRIVING ME NUTS NUTS I TELL YA!!!
THE LANGUAGE SETTINGS IN addons.opera.com
I WONT GET LOGGED IN WHEN I VISIT AFTER OPERA RESTART, AND LANGUAGE SETTINGS REVERTS ALWAYS TO DEFAULT! COME ON! AND THIS IS FRESH OPERA 12.00 INSTALLATION!! BUT IT KEPT HAPPENING BEFORE!!!! AAAA I mean both UI language and filter for extensions. Cookies are there, I think you have some https issue there 'cause portal.opera.com never game me any trouble and cookies looks the same.
Also since we are at the https, how about if I allow user javascript on https in opera:config, you wont ask me every time I restart browser. Move with the time, its 2012, normal everyday sites have https not only some internet banking or whatever you think you are setting that confirmation dialogue for...

also I dont understand why description for out extension has to be plane text. You want us to force to be brieg, but damn bulletpoints at least would be nice. Also preview to how the description would look ones published.

so to wrap it up I don't use unite/widgets so I am not phased by their lost, but I would love to see your promised focus on extensions and also AAAAAAAAA language...

uh, also update of extensions. How about crazy idea of notifying user when update is availabe, rather than just give inconspicuous button under extension list?

As a guy who made a single extension and have only basic understanding of js, html, css I demand that people listen to me!

Very, very disappointing! Unite was a great idea for a not commercial use of the internet. I loved and used it and it was one of the features I like Opera for: Independence!
Why must it been switched off? Is there no way to let it run as it is? Maybe without any support?

Wait... the advertisment for unite got me to use opera about a week ago and now the support stops?! Why wasn't this mentioned when I set up unite three days ago? wtf?

...and again... looking for another browser...

Nooooo
Unite is one of the main reason I recommend people to install Opera, to share files/photos/stream/... the main difference among others browsers...
Pleeaaaase if you really turn off this feature, make it alive as a standalone software (or make it opensource, so somebody else will?) It is such an easy and nice solution.
BTW I have never used widgets, neither extensions (I installed a translation and a youtube dwl I think, but that's it). But Unite is unique, and cannot be replaced! Please provide something else if you turn it off don't let us like this...

I VERY disappointed...

Too bad for Unite... It was a great, useful service.
But there are some replacements. For easy file sharing you should try Tonido or TappIn. But if you want the same Unite experience, try Weezo: file sharing, music and video streaming, remote desktop, chat room, notes, everything. Oh, and it's open source.

I cannot live in a world without Opera Unite!

I'm using version 11 for the rest of my life! I LOVE OPERA UNITE!!

Originally posted by spirobind:

It was a though decision to discontinue Widgets/Unite, but user numbers were clear: there were other areas of Opera that had way higher volumes that required our attention. In the end I think we're better off staying focused and building quality products, rather than spreading ourselves thin. Maybe Unite was ahead of its time. Today there are lots of really good solutions out there for problems that Unite was trying to tackle, including file sharing. In the end I think this is for the best, and I sincerely hope you agree. There's an amazing development happening in HTML5 and exciting things coming up on the extension side. In order to stay competitive and make sure we all get high quality Opera products, we need to focus.

What about Voice?

And another one: What sollutions you say that can substitute Opera Unite? Are you talking about sites, kinda Dropbox or whatever?

Anything Opera does is ahead of the time, for that I chosen Opera till today, this is not reply, mainly today, with lacking of good file sharing sites.

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Originally posted by thesouzah:

I'm using version 11 for the rest of my life! I LOVE OPERA UNITE!!

You can use the version 11 till end of year, is when the Unite server will be off.

Originally posted by ozoratsubasa:

You can use the version 11 till end of year, is when the Unite server will be off.

I'm also going to use Opera 11 still a long time afterward.
Unite can be used separately. Even without a server of the Opera! Here are detailed instructions:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/custom-domains-opera-unite/
http://my.opera.com/daniel/blog/2011/09/21/opera-unite-without-account
(same in russian) Я также собираюсь использовать Opera 11 все еще долгое время после этого.
Unite можно использовать отдельно. Даже без сервера Opera! Вот подробная инструкция: (urls)

Hi guys, I updated to Opera 12 beta, and cannot install any Unite applications. I'm logged in, I have (empty) Unite application list, and when I go to unite.opera.com, I all can do is download .ua files to disk, they are not recognized by Opera at all!

Witold Baryluk : Opera 12 - nasty, do not use it. It is not have "the Unite".

I don't care about Unite, but I really, really wish Opera would get hardware smart card support and S/MIME support in the mail client. More and more companies use smart cards for authentication, and Opera has never supported it. It's hard to be a "secure" browser without supporting some of these basic, common security features.

I was an Opera user from version 5 to 9... as my main development on work is on Chrome and some different implementations (non standard) was embraced by the target public of the site... I started to use more and more chrome...

This week I rediscovered Opera with the magnificent Unite (I used it sometimes to share media and files from my work station in the last two years)... and just now I'm sad about Unite.

The widgets was a cute idea with no practical application. Will you give us an alternative?

thx Xobrt, i'll have a look

Originally posted by thadeudepaula:

The widgets was a cute idea with no practical application. Will you give us an alternative?

Depends a bit. On KDE I've got a bunch of widgets set up like a big clock and battery indicator and I like that, but am just not quite sure to what extent it should be provided by Opera on desktop. Smartphones, however, are a pretty good home for widget applications, so in that sense you could see desktop widgets primarily as the developing environment.

Killing off features that distinguished you from the competition? Welp, better grab some more market share!
Bad move, really bad.

Mozilla is adding an installable app platform likw Opera widgets.

It was just enabled in the nightlys. It shows up in the add/remove applications list on windows just like widgets.

You guys should have expanded functionality, you where always keeping it to locked down.

Funny how they (Opera) says the numbers don't justify the continued development or support for Unite, seems to me their are a lot of people whom use Unite. I'm sure a lot of users would be happy with continued use of Unite as it is with no more development, I know I would be.
May as well switch to Firefox/Chrome. It's to bad I love (loved) Opera.

Speaking of Firefox, its extensions can in fact host websites: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/browser-server/

Of course it lacks much of Unite's finesse.

I always wondered why developers have such a hard time maintaining stuff that needs no further development. They either develop it till it gets unusable (Amarok 2.0, KDE4, Ubuntu and unity...) or just drop it. Is maintainance really that hard a thing to do? Or is it just Opera trying to stay unpopular.... look at their market share of the last decades and this doesn't even sound farfetched.

I personally think that widgets are not so important. Especially since the introduction of extensions.

But Opera Unite was a fantastic idea. I can not understand why they did not want to support.

I must say that I am disappointed. And I hope they do not remove Opera unite.

Edit: The longer I think about it the more horrified I become!
I never thought about change to another browser!

Think about it ...

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Originally posted by Pamalosebi:

I can not understand why they did not want to support.

In order to understand this, you should look at the Unite apps site since it was first introduced. One word could describe it best - stagnation. Few new apps were introduced since the beginning, and even fewer were being maintained by their creators. What's the point in keeping it up any longer if it diverts Opera's resources to something only few people are interested in developing for? Even such giants as Google with its seemingly unlimited resources know when to discontinue a failed project (Google Wave or Notebook, anyone?). Such discernment is even more crucial in the case of smaller players like Opera.

bad very bad

it helped me to worn on differnt systems togather weather my pda lappy or desktop

@Alexodius Prime: But the present was perfectly adequate!

Originally posted by AleksOD:

In order to understand this, you should look at the Unite apps site since it was first introduced. One word could describe it best - stagnation. Few new apps were introduced since the beginning, and even fewer were being maintained by their creators.

And this is the problem. It have a lot of users, but no developers or new apps. But the solution is not disable Unite, the real solution is create more apps and make it "accessible" for new developers.

Utterly disappointing. And here I thought Opera was unique. Seems I was wrong...

Originally posted by AleksOD:

Few new apps were introduced since the beginning, and even fewer were being maintained by their creators. What's the point in keeping it up any longer

What's the point in developing stuff for something that is already complete? There is no need for further development. Unite works, what else could you expect from it? Right, that it will continue to work.

Originally posted by AleksOD:

In order to understand this, you should look at the Unite apps site since it was first introduced. One word could describe it best - stagnation. Few new apps were introduced since the beginning, and even fewer were being maintained by their creators. What's the point in keeping it up any longer if it diverts Opera's resources to something only few people are interested in developing for? Even such giants as Google with its seemingly unlimited resources know when to discontinue a failed project (Google Wave or Notebook, anyone?). Such discernment is even more crucial in the case of smaller players like Opera.

My idea is become the Unite apps in extensions, but keeping the Opera Unite panel. So those special extensions would be added to that panel, making easy to find the Unite things, and adding to the Extension Manager normally.

I know i am understanding better the situation. There were be 3 running "extension" plataforms: Unite, Widgets, Extensions. Extension are more populars and is better have to focus in a kind of plataform, better become the Unite apps and the Widgets in extensions really. And moreover, for extensions you wouldn't need to have a MyOpera account to use the future "Unite extensions".

Originally posted by ozoratsubasa:

My idea is become the Unite apps in extensions, but keeping the Opera Unite panel. So those special extensions would be added to that panel, making easy to find the Unite things, and adding to the Extension Manager normally.

+1 and please, keep the Lounge. There's no alternative for that.

D: Not Unite! That's where I host my website and other services! http://s.supuhstar.operaunite.com/s/

I see no way I could continue providing a FREE website on which I can host my content. Sure, I could use something lame like freewebs, but no other service lets me host a site DIRECTLY from my computer with such ease! Opera Unite is so very stable that I practically trust it with my life! All the images I post to forums or send as bug reports (screenshots) are hosted there, and if Unite support is discontinued, then none of those people would be able to see those images! PLEASE, Opera team, continue support! If you don't have enough employees to keep it up, then hire me! I'd gladly work tirelessly to ensure continuous support of Unite!

Save & Convert Opera Unite & Widgets to Open Opera United: Sign the Petition and spread the word for this plan or another like it in action: We stopped Sopa, now let's fix Opera!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

Originally posted by Supuhstar:

I see no way I could continue providing a FREE website on which I can host my content.

Have you tried this Firefox addon?

Originally posted by MossMan:

Ironically, I *did* use some Unite services and widgets but *never* extensions!

Wonder if my clock widget can be extensionised...

me too; unite was something great for me. hope the extensions can keep up with it

Originally posted by Penge4:

Originally posted by ozoratsubasa:

My idea is become the Unite apps in extensions, but keeping the Opera Unite panel. So those special extensions would be added to that panel, making easy to find the Unite things, and adding to the Extension Manager normally.

+1 and please, keep the Lounge. There's no alternative for that.

+1 the ones to keep would be: lounge, file sharing, fridge (just for the lols) and server. those where the things that make opera awesome

To the Opera developer team: Don't try to make Opera become Chrome; that just makes you look desperate. Instead, try to make Opera faster than Chrome, with more features (already done, IMHO)! The moment you start leaving out features is the moment you start losing your original following.

Of course extensions are more often developed and downlaoded, because these are to change the way the browser performs when OBSERVING websites, whereas Unite is a platform for CREATING websites. The fact that not much has been developed fro Unite is simply due to the amazing fact that the premade applications are diverse and powerful enough to support almost all needs of a server! I honestly can't think of any other things needed for a server other than what Unite already offers, other than PHP support and the like, but that is something I can easily do without.

The point is that you're comparing apples and drawbridges; unite and Extensions are two different entities entirely, and need to be thought of and treated in completely separate ways. Unite will inherently move slower than extensions because it does so much more! For instance, the average Extensions user will probably use ad-blocking, translation, and shortcut extensions. This is all well and good, but that's a completely different from the average Unite user, who will probably use Web Server, File Sharing, Photo Sharing, and Stream Media applications. The Extensions user wants to augment and personalize his private experience of the internet, whereas the Unite user wants to provide services to others. You can't share files and host websites through extensions, and you can't add custom CSS and block ads with Unite applications.

I could raise many more points, comparing Unite to Extensions with other metaphors, but I haven't the time. Please, Opera developer team, keep Opera the same beast we are used to, and let us continue using your amazingly robust Unite platform!

Originally posted by jhilla:

Save & Convert Opera Unite & Widgets to Open Opera United: Sign the Petition and spread the word for this plan or another like it in action: We stopped Sopa, now let's fix Opera! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

Done But don't forget the Voice, +1 for him too.

Originally posted by AleksOD:

Originally posted by Supuhstar:

I see no way I could continue providing a FREE website on which I can host my content.

Have you tried https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/browser-server/?src=api]this Firefox addon?

Maybe must be what Opera wants: This

Originally posted by jhilla:

Save & Convert Opera Unite & Widgets to Open Opera United: Sign the Petition and spread the word for this plan or another like it in action: We stopped Sopa, now let's fix Opera!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

Done! Unite is too cool to be discontinue.

Originally posted by Supuhstar:

D: Not Unite! That's where I host my website and other services! http://s.supuhstar.operaunite.com/s/

I see no way I could continue providing a FREE website on which I can host my content. Sure, I could use something lame like freewebs, but no other service lets me host a site DIRECTLY from my computer with such ease! Opera Unite is so very stable that I practically trust it with my life! All the images I post to forums or send as bug reports (screenshots) are hosted there, and if Unite support is discontinued, then none of those people would be able to see those images! PLEASE, Opera team, continue support! If you don't have enough employees to keep it up, then hire me! I'd gladly work tirelessly to ensure continuous support of Unite!

Have a look on this if can help http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/custom-domains-opera-unite/ And nice site, i'd like to visit it for a long time

You can only get those custom domains if you pay, which makes it pointless. If you go that far you might as well drop unite and go for a real server.

Originally posted by Supuhstar:

The moment you start leaving out features is the moment you start losing your original following

True. But they'll also lose new ones. Me for example. Installed Opera this month. Won't ever update to the next version if unite will be missing.

Also.. I feel kind of tricked, because I opted to install Opera because of Unite. But I installed Unite one day after the announcement, that they won't support it anymore,.. so... yeah...

Originally posted by onsen-00:

You can only get those custom domains if you pay, which makes it pointless. If you go that far you might as well drop unite and go for a real server.

There are free DDNS services such as https://www.dlinkddns.com/ and http://www.no-ip.com/

Originally posted by AleksOD:

Have you tried this Firefox addon?

Nice, but "Not available for your platform" (Linux)
I want to write my version of Unite as a "Extention" or as "addon". If Opera does not give the needed API for her add-ons, then I'll write an add-on for Firefox.

Yes! The demise of Opera Widgets and Unite is long overdue! They were clever tools that should never have been part of the browser, and would have been better off as part of a separate application.

Extensions allow users to add any missing features that are prerequisites for adopting Opera. Like it or not, robust extension support is necessary for Opera's future success.

I'm quite surprised to see all these moaning users, since in over a decade of IT (in the United States) I have never met anyone who actually used Unite or Opera Widgets. *Ever*. There are better widget platforms out there, and easier filesharing tools, and all of them are used by wider audiences than the people who insist Opera should support a barely-used platform just because they don't want to make a Google account. Well, others don't want to install Opera, so suck it up.

Am I the only one who closes the browser on occasion? Who in their right mind runs their browser 24/7 as a file server? (Well, besides this guy:

Originally posted by weconsultants:

I can not believe you are dropping Unite. I run it 24/7.

Like many, I left Opera after they deliberately ignored extensions for novelty desktop widgets that, frankly, sucked. Really guys, you can't open a sports score in a tab and HAVE to have a window shaped like a football?

And Unite just made it sadder... Why should a volatile client app double as file server? Split that off into a separate tool, where it would be much cooler.

Aaaah POO !

Unite has been one of the single most useful frameworks I have used on the net in 15 years.

I collaborate with people all over the world, and being able to up/down-load, chat and demonstrate concepts quickly and easily, has been a massive boon for me, and I can't imagine how I will fill the massive void Unite will leave, other than installing many programs that others will also have to download and ge an account for.

BAD decision ! Unite is great !

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Please reactivate the widgets! I have several Games based on widgets. It is more comfortable to play and start them if they are widgets.