Opera 7.50 released

[joel]

Oslo, Norway - May 12, 2004

Opera Software today released 7.50 for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Opera 7.50 offers users hungry for a better Internet experience the latest advancements in Internet technologies, with the same engineering excellence and inventiveness that made its browser rendering so famous, now also offers a top-notch e-mailer, newsreader, RSS-compatible chat client, contact database, and much, much more. Still, with all the features, Opera remains the fastest, best coded, small browsing application in the world, weighing in at 3.5 MB.

[joel]

A friend of mine created an Opera site. "With iOpera I want to show what can be done by using the advanced customization possibilities of Opera. And I want to encourage others to customize Opera to their needs and share their setup with the Opera user community. Feel free to use my files to further modify your Opera. The only thing I would like to ask you is to show a screenshot of your modifications in the forums threads mentioned below and -- if you like to -- to upload your setup to the my.opera.com server to make it available to others too."

Check out iOpera.

[berniej]

I downloaded Opera 7.5 this morning and I agree that it is a bit faster than Safari and Firefox. However, when I surfed to http://www.philmug.org, all the text in all forums are "centered". Is there a way to fix this?

[Gomi]

opera has always had formatting problems ever since their first mac version... youre better of using safari/camino/firefox and omniweb or even (gulp) ie... it also crashes a lot on dhtml/javascripted pages

[mgd]

I've long enjoyed using Opera, from the Windows version to those ported to Linux. It's nice to see this browser updated for Mac still with fast page loading, tabbed browsing (Opera was one of the first to implement this), and a small footprint. My main gripe after using 7.5 for a couple of hours is that the interface seems a bit cluttered. On a 12", screen real estate is a premium. Hopefully, some panel layout tweaking will solve that.

Now, let's see if we can't fix the centered text problem.

[Kelvin]

GO MIGS! I'll be very grateful when you guys fix that annoying problem!

Do it. DO IT.

[mgd]

Done Lemme know if it text still comes out centered. Wheee! I can use mouse gestures again!

[Edited on 5-13-2004 by mgd]

[xineizer]

Originally posted by mgd
Wheee! I can use mouse gestures again!

umm... what are "mouse gestures"?

[vicicasas]

Am looking at this page with Opera right now. Can't say I'm a fan of the browser, but Migs, you sure did fix the text centering problem. Congrats, dude :beer:

EDIT: Oooh, a feature I missed from my PC-surfing days ... Full screen browsing!

[Edited on 5-13-2004 by vicicasas]

[xineizer]

Originally posted by vicicasas
EDIT: Oooh, a feature I missed from my PC-surfing days ... Full screen browsing!

I found that feature quite cool as well!

Safari will still be my main browser, but I'm shifting from Mozilla to Opera. I just noticed that Opera handles our Java-based application much more efficiently than Mozilla. :beer:

EDIT: Another cool feature is the automatic reload of the pages. Our Java-based application is so secure that if there's no activity within a specified amount of time, the session expires. With the automatic reload, I can do something else while not worrying about the session expiration anymore!

[Edited on 5-13-2004 by xineizer]