Opera, still a bit confusing

Opera, still a bit confusing

Hi,

Just wanted first to gratulate the Opera developers for making a really fast and good looking web browser for the Mac (I was one of the few also using the earlier versions on occasion as it could handle certain webpages that neither Safari or Firefox could). This is why I am also a bit frustrated by a few things (of course it is fine that not every web browser works the same way ...):
1. You have to be a "brain surgeon" to figure out how to switch between tabs (and close them individually -- haven't figured that one out yet) and even between windows (I know there are short-cuts, but you cannot find them in the Help section (for switching between tabs). Point is that it is certainly not intuitive in how it works now and this is the main reason I do not use it for standard web browsing.
2. It would be nice if one could preview local webpages one are working with, without having to drag the files to an Opera window (I could preview my webpage in all other browsers from a program like PageSpinner, but Opera refuses to respond to requests from other software (probably some odd "security feature" ... ). I guess even Opera developers want people to check out how their pages would render on Opera?
3. 1Password don't work with Opera (probably the developers of 1Password's neglect ...).

/Jerry

Moved to Opera for Mac forum.

In other platforms, Shift-click (or middle-click) on a tab on the tab bar will close it immediately, not certain about the Mac though. Of course, not all Mac users have a right mouse button (let alone a scroll wheel) ...

I found the "show the tabs bar" now ;-) -- that's helpful ... .

Oddly I haven't gotten any notices that there had been answers to my post even though I ticked that I wanted to subscribe to the thread ... .

The new version 9.52 renders the current website I am working on better than the previous version. There is now only one major problem that makes it difficult for me to recommend Opera as much as Safari and that is that photos are allowed to overlap in Opera -- I know this used to be like that back in NetScape 3 and so (I remember getting a comment by some serious (unlike me) web designers back then that they had thought that was not possible to "achieve" -- well it's still if you use Opera or IE (but who cares about IE anyway ...) -- but why does it have to be so now?

/Jerry

Photos are allowed to overlap? Sometimes that is how the author intended it, without a specific example I can't say whether Opera is doing anything wrong.