Now that adware free Opera has been out free for a while...thoughts...

[YeOldeStonecat]

Now that some of us have had the opportunity to test drive Opera for a bit....

Pro- I definitely love the speed, substantially faster than IE or Firefox.

Pro- Hasn't crashed on me once, been using it on two computers. Firefox in its pre 1.0 versions used to crash on me often, got stable until 1.07 came out..then started crashing again.

Con-Home Page button...where is it? Is there one?

Con-When you open Opera (or at least when I open Opera on either computer)...it seems to open up on whatever page you had viewed last time before you closed it. In other words....isn't opening on what I have set for home page.

Possible con for some people-Seems to consume copious amounts of memory, on both PCs....I see it use over 100 megs, right now, with only this window open, it's using 137 megs. Amount of memory used isn't an issue for me on any of my computers, which all have abundant memory, but for those with...leaner systems...it might. If caching content into memory is what makes it faster...fine by me.

[Ghosthunter]

YOSC,


You can change how it startups:

go to Tools -> Preferences, and in drop down box on top Choose Start with Home Page, be defualt it starts where you last were.

Also right underneath you can set your home page


To get your Home button, there is several ways but easiest is:

Go to Tools -> Appearance -> Toolsbars, then make sure Main is checked


The last thing for memory did you see my last post in the big thread about limiting how much memory to use?

[YeOldeStonecat]

Ahh cool...hadn't dug around much, was hoping this thread would bring about stuff like that. That takes care of my 2x biggest gripes.

I'm inherantly lazy...if default settings aren't how I like, I often don't look much further. :rotfl:

The memory isn't an issue for me. Perhaps that's why my rigs are consuming as much as they are, as the other thread, I saw postings that others didnt' have much memory consumption...make the engine auto-adjusts if left unchecked. Tis a good idea actually, IMO. "If you have the RAM...why not use it!" :nod:

[YARDofSTUF]

I've got a gig of ram and dont like the idea of it using so much.

I've i've got opera, email, office, a photo editor, and nero or WMP open eat once there goes most of the ram lol

[CableDude]

Nice avatar, YOSC. :thumb:

[YeOldeStonecat]

Nice avatar, YOSC. :thumb:

:D