Opera Browser 48

[White Out 403]

So just by coincidence I decided to have a go with Opera today as a 2nd browser so I can easily use a work gmail and my own personal email separately. REALLY impressed with the work that Opera has put in and it's actually giving me pause to consider using it full time.

Coulda gone in random thoughts I guess.

[Wormius]

I wish it had a button to go to a home page like Firefox and IE with Alt-H, instead of the multiple step process.

[jwslam]

Haven't used Opera since I had a Nokia OS phone... LOL

Re your issue
If I'm running 2 email accounts in chrome I just use one incognito

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I wish it had a button to go to a home page like Firefox and IE with Alt-H, instead of the multiple step process.

ctrl + space brings you to the start page. It's still a two step process as you choose the saved sites you want to access on the start page, but at least you can have multiple pages on the start page for easy access?

http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/nomouse/

[Hack&Lube]

I was such an Opera fan boy 10 years ago. I had to go to Chrome because of the integration with google services though.

[ricosuave]

I had opera running about a month ago, found it extremely slow and laggy. might give the new version a try again

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

I had opera running about a month ago, found it extremely slow and laggy. might give the new version a try again

I am not sure it is all that great in its current incarnation. It’s still such a memory hog; not as bad a Firefox, which is why I switched. For some reason, that I can’t change, it will not use the GPU memory for any video settings. Instead it hijacks system memory for video decoding, etc.

One thing I find most odd is how using the the google flights page, it will grind to a crawl after a few minutes of use.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

ctrl + space brings you to the start page. It's still a two step process as you choose the saved sites you want to access on the start page, but at least you can have multiple pages on the start page for easy access?



http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/nomouse/

I guess, but that’s what bookmarks are for. Every other browser has a start page you can set to a default page. Why Opera hasn’t gotten on board with this is inconceivable. Alt-Tab should open a new tab with my default home page, and Alt-H should return me to my default homepage. That’s pretty standard stuff and the most convenient.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I am not sure it is all that great in its current incarnation. It’s still such a memory hog; not as bad a Firefox, which is why I switched. For some reason, that I can’t change, it will not use the GPU memory for any video settings. Instead it hijacks system memory for video decoding, etc.

One thing I find most odd is how using the the google flights page, it will grind to a crawl after a few minutes of use.

yeah, that's what happened to me.

I went back to google chrome, but moved the cache off the main ssd to the data drive, and all has been well so far.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

yeah, that's what happened to me.

I went back to google chrome, but moved the cache off the main ssd to the data drive, and all has been well so far.

You can move a cache to a non main drive? Huh, I'll have to look into this.

Chrome has been pissing me off lately. I've been actively replacing chrome with chromium as I go along. I seem to have less issues with Chromium than chrome.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

You can move a cache to a non main drive? Huh, I'll have to look into this.

Chrome has been pissing me off lately. I've been actively replacing chrome with chromium as I go along. I seem to have less issues with Chromium than chrome.

https://www.ghacks.net/2010/10/19/ho...tion-and-size/