Opera Software today unveiled the final version of Opera 10. In a world of ordinary Web browsers, Opera 10 stands out from the crowd with innovative new features wrapped in an elegant, fresh interface. Opera 10 is absolutely free, comes in 43 languages, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

Download: Opera 10

I suppose people are expecting me to promote Opera 10 above and beyond anything else in any post I make even slightly related to Opera. Though Opera is still my preferred browser and in my own opinion is still much better than all other browsers (combined ), I really don't see Opera 10 as a major improvement.
Of the many articles and opinions I've read about Opera 10, most people seem to agree. Some have even gone as far as to say that Opera has almost "run out of new features to add", though this really isn't the case. Through the entire Alpha/Beta/RC progression of Opera 10, I kept a reasonably close eye on the developments, and even during the development process I wasn't all that impressed.
In-line spell checking and integrated automatic updates are both great features, and various changes to the UI have given Opera a better overall look; but the best is yet to come.

The problem with Opera right now is that it's Javascript engine, Futhark, hasn't been able to keep up. As was explained in a blog post concerning the development of a future Javascript engine (Carakan), Futhark was developed to be lightweight and efficient, meaning that its speed was as good as it could get for that specific hardware generation.

Jens Lindström, Opera Software Wrote:When Opera's current ECMAScript engine, called Futhark, was first released in a public version, it was the fastest engine on the market. That engine was developed to minimize code footprint and memory usage, rather than to achieve maximum execution speed.

More recently, the focus has shifted more toward using greater amounts of memory and processing power, both as it becomes available in larger quantities and because you may as well make full use of the hardware to improve performance rather than have it (or a portion of it) doing nothing - an example of this is Windows Vista - and as a result, Opera has seen its relative speed decline.
It's unclear whether Carakan will even make it into the next build (Opera 10.10) but when its ready, it will make a welcome addition. Until then, I should be able to keep myself happy, given that I'm still finding new features and ways to customize Opera (Just recently added custom menu options to send links to greatest download manager in the world Flashget 1.73).

Got a guide or anything for how you did that? Biggest custom change I've done is add flash blocking

Judah Wrote:Got a guide or anything for how you did that? Biggest custom change I've done is add flash blocking

You basically need to write lines so that the custom menu item you create will run the command "...\flashget.exe <link>" where <link> is the URL to download as a parameter passed to the application.
Note: This will pass links to flashget and doesn't open a separate instance of the application

In Opera:
Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Toolbars

There are two sections: For toolbars and menus. Click the "Duplicate" button for the menu section and it should create a second option in the menus list as well as place a configuration file for your menus in "%Appdata%\Opera\Opera\menu". By default this file is called "standard_menu (1).ini" or something. You will also need to make sure this item is selected to use the custom menu file, also configurable at opera:config#UserPrefs|MenuConfiguration.

Open the configuration file. There will be two sections you want to edit for text links and image links.

Insert at bottom:
[1] This inserts a section break in the menu. Make sure to replace x with a number one greater than the previous section break. (3 for me)
[2] The name to appear in the menu. I simply used "Flashget"
[3] For me (x64) this was "C:\Program Files (x86)\Flashget\flashget.exe"

Example:

The second section to edit:
Paste the same information from before at the bottom of this item. You may need to change the number if you include the section break.


It would be great if I could find some sort of document detailing the syntax and a list of commands for this configuration file.

Here's another menu edit that some might find useful. I use it for lists of non-clickable host links. Same functionality as the "Go to Web Address" except it will open in a different tab.

I've discovered a new feature that I'll use mass in Opera. It was probably there for years, but I only stumbled upon it when I decided to add some bookmarks because I keep forgetting to visit some sites.
Apparently you can give "Nicknames" to your bookmarks and bookmark folders, and when you type the nicknames into the address bar, it will visit the bookmarked site or all bookmarks in the folder you nicknamed.



I know some people might think that this could cause a problem if you had a folder with hundreds of bookmarks in it, but there is a warning message giving you the option to cancel (and it can be disabled).

I've grouped some sites that I want to visit on occasion so now I just have to type simple things in to access them all at once.

Checked in Firefox and though you can give names to folders, you can't type the names into the address bar. Instead you have to right click the bookmark folder and select open all tabs. Oddly enough, this is how I discovered that my ISP has a custom DNS alias that redirects "test" to their website "www.inspire.net.nz". That means you will have some problems if you have random entries in your hosts file, or if your web server is configured in a such a way you might encounter problems if you nickname your bookmarks with the same name.

Dunno about IE.

Hey oz, I only just attempted to use your Flashget guide. It's not working though, is it made for the version of Flashget that you mentioned, 1.73?

Nevermind, I figured it out.

Quote:Item, "FlashGet" = Execute program, "C:\Program Files (x86)\FlashGet\flashget.exe","%l"

That end part looks like %1 but it isn't a 1 apparently. It doesn't even look like a 1 in my quote thing, but it did in oz's one.

Everyone knows it's an L. You should copy paste.

Look at your green font thing lol it fully looks like a 1