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no1v2
04-11-03, 08:49 AM
I've been using it since last night (someone tipped me off that it was on their FTP server before they officially announced it), and I must say I'm impressed. They added/fixed all but one of the features I wanted, and, more importantly, so far it's been much more stable than 7.0x. You can now middle click on a tab to close it, something which I'm very used to from Mozilla. You still can't middle-click on a link to open it in a new tab, but I do that less often anyways. I always liked the idea of having the progress bar pop up, but I hated how they implemented it by covering the bottom of the page & scrollbar. That's still the default in 7.10, but you can now set it to instead use the address bar instead. I'd still prefer it to either pop up like it did before, but bump the page up instead of covering it, or have it use the status bar, but this is a big improvement. Lastly, you can now drag items on the personal bar around w/o spending hours trying to get lucky.

Oh, and while browsing around the ftp server I found another Opera release which still isn't mentioned on the site...beta's of 7.10 for Linux :cool:

Edit: I forgot to mention one last problem I had with 7.0x...if you had too many bookmarks in a menu with them they'd get pushed off the edge of the screen. 7.10 creates submenus for bookmark menus that won't fit on the screen. IMO, that's much better than scrolling too.

1000rpm
04-11-03, 10:01 AM
Yes I have heard a lot of good things about Opera also. Might have to give it a try...

royisher
04-11-03, 10:39 PM
Yeah, Opera is a great browser, My recomendation, but still, Explorer is the best (for my end :))

thebyp2
04-12-03, 03:01 AM
i haven't used opera in years now. time for a bit of a re visit i think...

Operator
04-12-03, 10:14 AM
Mozilla is the best ;)

no1v2
04-12-03, 10:52 AM
Before Opera 7.10 came out I would use Mozilla one day then Opera the next, but now I'm only using Opera. It has a couple features I really like that Mozilla's missing, and 7.10 has been as stable as Mozilla so far. (Plus Opera 7.x looks better ;)) I'm not saying you guys should all switch, but you should give it a spin sometime. Same goes with Mozilla if you haven't used it yet.

thebyp2
04-12-03, 10:56 AM
have tried several times to download this but it keeps returing a 404 page to me. :(

Lamont
04-12-03, 11:05 AM
Does Opera still have the adware?

no1v2
04-12-03, 04:20 PM
No adware, it just has one banner ad on the toolbar when it's unregistered. As long as you're not using a low resolution it doesn't get in the way. Register and it goes away of course ;)