Saturday, 17. March 2007, 00:15:10
opera, English, Opera weekly, Opsed
Do not use
Opsed with the
latest weekly, that is Opera 9.20 Build 8746. It will simply not work. So, it seems that Opera 9.10 was the last version ever that was supported by Opsed.
BTW, I do really hope that all of the bugs related to the freshly modified search.ini handling will be fixed before Opera 9.20 final is launched. Otherwise the concept of making selected search engines hardcoded (
) and performing search engine merging should be dropped out of 9.20.
Tuesday, 13. March 2007, 23:29:44
ranking.pl, opera, English, historia
Hm… When it comes to the
Opera stats in Poland, there were no significant changes last month. We had 6.9% of the browser market share in Poland on February 2007. Firefox, of course, got its next piece of
cake (29.3% of market share
).
Wednesday, 7. March 2007, 23:03:16
opera, English, historia, po polsku
Cheers to AHV!
Monday, 5. March 2007, 20:42:33
English, opera, user interface, game
One of my favorite Opera user interface glitches: four modal windows on a stack.
Go to
Tools > Preferences > Wand > Passwords > Add > Cookies > Edit to get such a nice house of cards. Can anyone provide me with a higher one?
Friday, 16. February 2007, 23:19:41
ranking.pl, opera, English, historia
...
Well, it seems I was a bit wrong when
writing, that on January 2007 we (in Poland) were still at the very same Opera popularity level as on September 2005. Maybe I've based my opinion on the weekly stats. When looking at monthly stats, Opera was used by 6.4% of Polish Internet users on September 2005, that is the whole
0.4% less than now.
Here is the chart showing the Opera market share based on stats averaged out over the monthly (not weekly) periods. Data source:
ranking.pl.
Exactly a year ago, on February 2006, Opera was used by 6.8% of Polish Internet users. We had even reached 7.4% of market share on June 2006. And then Opera started to fall down, to go back to 6.8% on October 2006, and to remain at this level till now. This is the very first such a fall in the Opera history. So the old, still unanswered, question remains:
what has happened?
According to the latest
weekly stats, Opera is used by over a million of Polish Internet users, which means 6.9% of the market share. Gecko browsers (mostly Firefox) are used by over 4.6 million of users, which makes 29.8% of the market share. Internet Explorer is used by 63% of Polish Internet users.
So, in
Kestrel and Peregrine we trust? I do believe, that the trust, and the great developers' efforts, will be efficiently followed and supported by the Opera marketing.
For those not familiar with ranking.pl - their methodology is described
here.
Sunday, 11. February 2007, 20:29:17
opera, English, user interface, game
OK, the "feature" word is quite an exaggeration in the case described below.
Have you noticed that Opera offers two kinds of blank pages?
Blank page of the first kindIf you select "File" >> "New Tab", or click the "New Tab" on the Tab Bar, you'll see the more "common" Opera blank page, which in current versions is not treated as a real page. You can't display its source, and the Info panel does not offer any info about it.
So maybe it should rather be called an "empty tab"?
Blank page of the second kindBut… Type opera:blank in the address field. A "blank page" will be displayed again, but this time you may see that it's a real Web page. Press Ctrl+F3 to see its source:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Blank Page</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
</code>
And the info panel looks like this:
Do you know any other examples of similar redundancy in Opera user interface? Or maybe it's not a redundancy, and both of the kinds of the emty pages are needed?
Other bugs related to empty tabsWhen exploring these incarnations of a single Opera feature, I've noticed some other (probably not so new) bugs.
- Cycling through tabs using the "1" and "2" keys is disturbed if any of the tabs is empty. In case of an empty tab, the address field is being automatically focused, which breaks the cycling procedure, and "1"s and "2"s are simply typed into the address field.
- The empty page of the second kind does not validate.
- Opera offers some options for the emty pages of the first kind, while these options should be disabled. The "Reload every", "Copy address", "Send link by mail", "Validate" and "Edit site preferences" options do not work on the emty page of the first kind. In case of the empty page of the second kind the "Edit site preferences" is actually disabled.
Monday, 5. February 2007, 17:59:00
game, English language file, opera, English
...
Well… I haven't found any bug in the Developer Console. I simply had no time to try it out yet. And maybe I'm not even interested in it.
But… I've noticed some strange, or should I rather say "promising", bug related to its name. The "Developer Console" menu item perfectly fits the
revised English language file. And it looks strange with the standard one:
The very first capitalized user interface string in Opera history is not a part of the Opera language file yet, since the latest weekly uses the very same english.lng file as the one supplied with the stable versions of Opera 9.x. An Opera developer has hard-coded the string in the standard_menu.ini file and made this nice mistake.
Thanks to this mistake I don't have to edit Opera files to make my Opera 9.20 user interface consistent.
(I'm torn between two language versions of Opera - I use the Polish version at my home PC, and the revised English one at my office PC.)
If you want to make your Opera 9.20 build 8713 user interface consistent - download and install the
revised English language file.
Wednesday, 31. January 2007, 22:11:57
opera, misc, English
I believe I have already posted this info to the Opera forums, but I think it's worth putting it here too.
The Opera Mini is the smallest […] in the Opera range. "Smallest" only in dimensions, of course! The quality of construction and […] is indeed top level, and the attention to details is the same as you would expect from any Opera […].
Read more about
another version of Opera Mini. And maybe you are also interested in
the review of Opera 1.5?
Thursday, 25. January 2007, 19:50:53
game, user interface, English, opera
Let's play another game.
Do you know any Opera dialogs, or other user interface elements, which are the relics of the past versions, and offer the functionality that is currently offered by other user interface elements? Or maybe you know a shorter way to display the dialog discussed below?
How to set the home page in Opera 9? Just go to Preferences > General. Fast and simple. It's also the answer you will get both in the
Opera help files and the
Opera knowledge base. Older Opera users still remember the "Set home page" dialog. Its variants, being slightly modified across the years, were available in versions 5, 6 and 7 of Opera (and maybe older - I didn't use them). It was finally removed from users' sight in version 8.0. And you know what? It is still there in Opera 9.1! Yes. It was just hidden and almost every gateway leading to it was closed. Almost.
So, how to invoke the "Set home page" dialog in the default Opera installation, providing we do not edit any ini files nor change the default keyboard or mouse settings?
- Go to Preferences > General.
- Clear the "Home page" edit field and click OK.
- Make sure that you have no tabs open.
- Double click the empty Opera workspace to see a blank page.
- Now double click the blank page.
- And voilà! We have it!
Note that the access to the dialog may be also achieved by editing the standard opera menu file, or by adding "set homepage" command to any keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture. Or by installing and clicking this button:
Set home page. But this is not what this post is about.
I wonder why this dialog was not completely removed from the Opera user interface. It looks like an oversight.
- Most of its functionality is currently covered by the Preferences dialog.
- It's not available from within the user interface, unless you are an experienced user to re-enable it (but experienced users usually do not need this dialog) or have enough luck to find the gateway that was described above.
- It is buggy. The "Show my home page every time I start Opera" check-box is always unchecked, regardless of the option currently selected. Try to check it, click OK and then reopen the dialog to see what I mean. This is not a standard behaviour of the check-box control. BTW, this check-box was introduced in Opera 8.0, which was the very first Opera version in which the dialog in subject was hidden.
- If the dialog was opened by using the described method, two of three displayed options will not work! "Set current page as a homepage" will not set anything. The "Blank page" will not be set as the home page due to the reasons which will be described in the very next game called. "Use address entered here" will also not work, unless you actually write anything. Options that are not available in current context should be simply disabled. Anyway these two options are available in preferences.
So, finally it appears that the dialog has a single unique feature: it may be used to "revert to home page shipped with Opera".
But I'm sure no one would believe that this great feature is the reason to keep this dialog in Opera code.
(All the more you may click "Default" next to the
UserPrefs|HomeURL option in opera:config.)
Next game: "2 in 1: multiple incarnations of a single Opera feature".
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