Posts Tagged Opera
Quirks with Opera
So I’ve been a long time Opera user, but lately some bugs have really started to agitate me and are killing my user experience.
The first bug is Opera is unable to open certain long URL’s from the commandline, approximately if the URL is 86 characters or longer. This was fixed awhile ago in the Windows version of Opera, but it seems it never got corrected in the Linux builds. This causes me to be greatly annoyed as applications can no longer pass long URLs to Opera to be opened. Most notably in my case is links inside my email client. I click those links expecting Opera to happily open them, but all I get is no response. Manually copying and pasting links into Opera from email is a royal pain and has tempted me to try Chromium a bit more full time. I submitted a bug report about it to Opera but we will see if that changes anything. If it doesn’t get fixed soon I’ll have to switch to just maintain my sanity of clicking URLs.
The second bug is flash freezes all the time in Opera. This is incredibly annoying when I’m watching something on Hulu. The show will be playing fine and then suddenly the video will freeze, but the sound will keep playing. This doesn’t seem to occur in other browsers such as chromium or arora. Based on that, I’d assume its an Opera bug but I can’t be sure. Either way it’s quite annoying. I can’t tell if it was a recent Opera update or flash update that introduced this behavior though.
Hoping the next Opera beta/rc fixes at the least my url length problem
Java with Opera 10 on Gentoo AMD64
So I recently was messing around with Opera 64bit on Gentoo and trying to get Java to work. The process was actually a lot easier than I expected. First I made sure I had the latest sun-jdk installed, which was dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.16 in this case. Now to make it work with Opera I did the following:
Opera doesn’t seem to work by default like this, probably because it ignores the plugin and uses java directly. Because of this, you need to symlink the libjvm.so so Opera can find it:
Set opera to use
as the java path and restart opera. All should be working now, you can check by following this test page: http://www.opera.com/media/applets/clock/
If anyone knows a more proper way of doing this, be sure to let me know
Opera 9.5 released
Posted by Ken in Uncategorized on June 13, 2008
My favorite browser has finally come out of beta and rc status to bring us the release of Opera 9.5. It packs a shiny new interface and many bug fixes over the old 9.27 version. I recommend everyone taking a look at the new version of Opera even if you decided Opera wasn’t for you before.
Who designed this?
So, I’m typing up something of significant or insignificant length in a browser (such as this post), and notice and error. So I instinctively hit backspace and to my suprise the text field had somehow lost focus. What does this backspace key do when not in a text field? Why go back to the latest viewed page. Fantastic. So I hit forwards in anger, and to my suprise what I was just typing is gone.
Who thought this was a good idea? One of the most used keys in typing, can lose everything you’ve typed. This currently happened in Opera, but I’ve seen the behavior exihibited in other browsers aswell.
Normally, browsers save the values of these textfields, but this one seems so full of javascript, the browser doesn’t. Sigh.