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Use Dragonfly Offline (updated)

Friday, November 20, 2009 1:59:07 AM

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The examples below were written for Opera version 10.
A revised example for Opera version 11 is on its way.

dragonfly
It's impossible for me to think of Opera's Developer tools without bringing to mind Basil's "Little bet on the gee-gees" and his sending Manuel off to place a bet away from the watchful eye of Sybil. "The name of the horse is Dragonfly, but remember Manuel, Sybil No Know."

Back to Opera's Dragonfly
I wanted to run the app locally rather than from Opera's server, as is usual. I didn't bother looking for any documentation on this because Opera's track record at documenting their browser to any useful degree is considerably inept.

Here then, briefly, is how I achieved it, in case anyone else should wish to follow suit.

dragonfly Download the application from here: https://dragonfly.opera.com/app/core-2-2/zips/
UPDATE: According to the Dragonfly site, the proper Code Repository url is this: http://dragonfly.opera.com/app/zips/ Although at present both files sets match one another.


dragonfly Unzip it somewhere - mine is at C:\Opera\profile\Opera-Dragonfly - and overwrite the default address (URL), https://dragonfly.opera.com/app/ with the location of your local folder. You can achieve this either by editing your operaprefs.ini file directly, or via Opera's own Preferences Editor.

dragonfly The operaprefs.ini method:
[Developer Tools]
Developer Tools URL=

(I've not checked, but one should also be able to use the relative address .\profile\Opera-Dragonfly/client-en.xml for running from USB/Network drives)

dragonfly The Preferences editor method:
Link: opera:config#DeveloperTools|DeveloperToolsURL



dragonfly You might also wish to add a button or two to access it directly:

Reload from cache (text button)
Dragonfly (text button)

Thanks to Ben at 200ok weblog for providing the source of these buttons.

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Comments

Pavel Kutáčarxeiss Thursday, May 27, 2010 9:16:47 PM

I have a problem with it. I start Dragonfly and it show that there isn't comunication Dragonfly with Opera. How can I repair it? I try diferent version

Gary Walshgarywalsh Tuesday, June 1, 2010 6:24:13 PM

@Pavel:

Have you re-checked that all the setting your changed are absolutely correct, and written in the correct syntax?

Such as: C:/Opera/profile/Opera-Dragonfly/client-en.xml
Instead of:

Or using not using back slashes?

One simple unnoticed typo is enough to do it. It's often something trivial that trips me up.

Pavel Kutáčarxeiss Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:36:04 PM

I don't know why, but I had all setting set well. So I tried download the newest version on
http://dragonfly.opera.com/app/core-2-5/zips/
and it's ok smile

But, you wrote that I have to set Developers Tools URL without ... And i have now URL with and it works and before it i tried URL with and without and didn't work nothing.

And now it works and I'm so happy smile
Thanks to you for all

Unregistered user Sunday, June 20, 2010 11:45:44 AM

Anonymous writes: Works great ! We shouldn't have to do this, but thanks for showing how.

Gary Walshgarywalsh Monday, January 31, 2011 8:53:52 AM

As I move over to version 11, or 11.1 to be exact, I wanted to know precisely where the latest version of Dragonfly was being served...

dragonfly Dragonfly Latest - Quick Download Link:
https://dragonfly.opera.com/app/stp-1/script/dragonfly-en.js

up

Unregistered user Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:55:34 AM

Anonymous writes: Dragonfly should definitely work off-line by default - why not include Dragonfly as an addon in Opera and allow automatic updates?

Unregistered user Friday, July 22, 2011 11:06:27 AM

Pradeep Sharma writes: Hi dear Gary, You are really much intelligent. Thanks to help us.

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