Opera transfers

Can the opera transfers/downloads list be cleaned up like firefox's can to reduce loading times?

e.g. in firefox you can 'clean up' the downloads on the downloads window whcih removes old ones and means the window loads faster. Is there a way to do this in opera (as my trasfer window takes ages to load now) and if so how?

Thanks

 

Right click, and click "Remove All Finished". As an alternative, Ctrl+A selects all, and the delete key removes all the selected items. Congrats on using the best browser available for Windows!

 

Just curiously, why do you think it's better than FF? (Not for any other reason that I was interested in why people think one browser is better than another)

 

It uses a ton less memory, and has a lot of really great interface things that, if they are available in Firefox, are there only through extensions.

Things like tab duplication with history, mouse guestures, excellent support for sessions, out of the box highly configurable options as to what you want running (scripting, java, flash, etc)... I can hit F4, glance at my transfers, and then hit f4 again to close that pane. The zooming is better, and there's this concept of author and user modes, which lets you look at a "clean" version of a page.

I'm horribly addicted to tab scrolling. you hold the right mouse button, and scroll through tabs. they're listed in order last looked at, which works wonderfully, because you can just middle click a link to open it in a new tab, and tab scroll up one to go to it.

Then there's stuff that overlaps with firefox, like the search. (hit '.' start typing, and it'll scroll to the first result. hit f3 to get subsequent results.)

Then there's features I don't use

 

That's actually quite interesting. I used to use Opera about 4/5 years ago when you could get a free version, but it had a massive advert in the top right hand corner.

I liked it, but when the free FF came out, I decided to move over since the advert bugged me so much. When they decided to get rid of the ads in Opera, I had another look, but because I was so used to FF, things didn't work as I expected them too and I couldn't be bothered learning things again.

I've d/l the newest version of Opera and I've gotta say I like it a lot. I do a lot of web development and have found that in general, if you site works in Opera, it'll be W3C compliant (which is a great benefit).

Any other tips and tricks I could try with Opera?

 

out of the box, Opera is probably my favorite browser. Unfortunately, I just can't live without my Firefox extensions. Guess I'm doomed to a life of unsatisfying browsers...

 

You can highlight stuff and then right click to do things. For instance, if there's a url in text, you can highlight it and then click "go to url" in the context menu.

F8 puts your focus on the address bar. There's a search feature that I think firefox also has, where you can add custom search string ... things... to the address bar. For instance, I went to wikipedia, right clicked the search box, told it to "Create Search" or something like that, and then added 'wki' as the keyword. Now, if I'm reading something, and want to look something up on wikipedia, I hit ctrl+t (or f8 if I'm done with the page I'm on), and then type "wki pizza", for instance, to read up on that exotic American delicacy. You can edit the url search string manually too, via the "details" button, to, for instance, have wikipedia use 'search' instead of 'go'.

Fastforward and backward do interesting things I think... Fastforward tries to be smart, and go to the next page if you're looking at a number of pages in series... it works sometimes. In this forum, it seems to try to go between threads, instead of thread pages. I'm not totally sure what the back does. maybe something to do with domains.

If you hit F4 again, and look at the links button, you'll see a list of all the links in a page. That can be handy sometimes.

I wisely avoided all the really cool Firefox extensions. I only use the ones that remind me of Opera, and concentrate on the things I don't like, like the download dialog and the way it takes three times the ram.

 

Does Opera have plug-in capability? It is really nice to have FF plugins that block unwanted ads, export and import passwords, completely backup and restore all installed plug-ins, and backup and restore a person's FF settings/information.

 

Opera is a great browser. I've been using it for years. On a rare occasion i have to use FF or IE to load some particular sites. The biggest problem i have with Opera is working with pdfs. I don't know what it is but i have trouble with it everytime.

 

been testing (using daily) Minefield (aka FF3)
. 2 windows, 11 tabs - memory hovering at about 60kb, a far cry (&great improvement) of current version and CPU hog (i meant to say "usage") is almost nil!

i kinda like this set.up within FF. Why should a browser be bloated with interface/stuff that users do not necessarily use, as per need?

cool features, too bad i haven't got a chance to look into them since they r not in my browsing needs (yet)

like i said ;-) too many features that one do not need, why pack them in?

i did use Opera a short while back, may be it was my setup or something, but it kept crashing on me, very often, when I was trying to print a page.

- borrowing Jalf line "Guess I'm doomed to a life of unsatisfying browsers"

cheers ...

 

I'll have to try Minefield then. Sounds neat.

My experiences have been something like FF2: 12 tabs, 300+ megs. Opera: 57 tabs: 150~ Megs, with Opera tending to be more responsive. I use many of the features... but the nice thing is, if you don't use them, they stay out of your way. Features and all, the interface feels as lightweight as Firefox's default, and the program doesn't act weighed down.

I didn't really get too excited about the Opera features until I started using them... then using them more heavily... and now IE or Firefox feels crippling. Of course, IE feels a lot more crippling than Firefox, and I still like some of the Firefox extensions.