Just a quick followup from this morning’s post on Opera 9 beta. In short: I freakin’ love it. I’ve used it as my primary browser all day long and have been enjoying it. Why? Well, let me hit a few of the high points:
- Sure, I’m a tab freak. And we all presumably know the tricks about “middle-click” a link to get it open in a new tab, right? In opera, if you go to the new tab, read it and then close it you return back to the originating tab. Cool.
- Tabs have their little “x”s right there on the tab. I love that.
- Widgets are nifty. Very much like what you get with Yahoo! Widget Engine.
- Pretty much every site I tried today worked.
- Vroom – rendering pages is still zippy.
What’s not so great?
- Minor, but the wysiwyg editor for the blog isn’t too keen about working with Opera. It kinda works but forgets to wrap lines and stuff…
- While I kinda like the Widgets, I wouldn’t mind being able to turn them off. For the life of me, if that’s an option I’m not finding it!
- I’m not so sure about the memory footprint.
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And the tab behavior on closing one was what drove me away from the beta. I don’t want to go to the originating tab. I like the firefox way that takes me to the one to the right. I open several files sequentially and I want to read them that way… Not go back to the page that I started from. What’s the perk to opening multi-tabs if I keep going back to the original every time I close one?
You can switch widgets on and off by pressing F6. (It’s under the Tools menu.)
Hey Anthony, I found the F6 thing earlier today, but wasn’t sure if that really “turned off” widgets or just hides ‘em. Do you know? When I hit F6 they pop up so quickly that I kind of suspect they’re already loaded and waiting.
Not a major annoyance, per se, but definitely something I’m curious about.
He’s not telling you that he’s curious because he’s a footprint/memory monitoring savant.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he could tell us the difference in memory usage between classic and xp themed desktops lol.
The version of the beta I used there wasn’t away to adjust tab behavior when I closed it that I could find. I kvetched about that lol.