Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th Jun 2006 17:17 UTC, submitted by Sushi
"The last time I tried Opera, it was still advertisement supported, and offered me no real reason to choose their ad-free option for the money being asked. A number of people used to feel that Opera's ads were off-topic and more annoying than anything. I should be clear in saying that I support companies with a strong privacy policy using ads should they choose to. I just did not see the value in adding them to a browser that offered very little that other browsers did not. Today, this has changed. Opera is now ad free, and they have added some cool new functionality." On a related note, Microsoft has released the 3rd beta version of IE7 for Windows XP/2003.
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2006-07-05
I switched to Opera early in the 3.xx series early in 1998 and have been a constant user ever since. My biggest gripe is that when moving to new versions they either get rid of or bury features that I have been using without telling us users how to get back what disappeared. Their online help is often worthless, and I really do not want to go burrowing through their news groups to find answers to what *should* be a self-evident FAQ for upgraders.
Example: The URL (address) display when doing a link mouseover suddenly stopped working in ver. 9 with the identical toolbar configuration I used in ver. 8. I "fixed" that accidently when fiddling around with the status bar view/show options. Apparently when the status bar is not shown the URL will appear on a link mouseover, but I had to turn the status bar show to on and then off to make that happen (a bug, perhaps).
Now for my question: Up to version 6 there was a bookmark option "Set as Active Folder", which meant that when you put a bookmarks button in your toolbar the dropdown would start at the folder in your bookmarks tree that you had set as "active" rather than at the root level (so to speak). A very handy feature - I used it constantly. I used to check the forums occasionally and after version 7 came out people complained (as I recall) about this feature disappearing and it was promised that it would soon be back. Now I have been around Opera long enough to know better than to state that it has truly never returned, but how to bring it back is not obvious if indeed the feature is just buried but not dead. I have had no luck with Google or searching through the Opera knowledge base. So, does one of you Opera experts out there know how to get that feature to work? Alternatively, if there is some way to place a bookmark folder on the toolbar (right now only placing URLs on the toolbar works), then that would be a satisfactory alternative.
Thank you.