Opera For Dummies

[AYHJA]

Oh IO...You had me at hello..!

[jdog]

Oh IO...You had me at hello..!

Hey, I like the state but I'm no Buckeye fan. :curse:

[AYHJA]

What about mouse gestures and batch image saving..?

[¡ñ±£¿®∆L Ф¶†ïς@п]

You can maniupulate the mouse gestures to your heart's content through 'Tools - Preferences (Ctrl + F12) - Advanced - Shortcuts'.

I currently have my mouse gestures turned off, as they serve little, or more, aggravating, use, on a laptop, as I am.

The keyboard tinkering is where the real dough on customization is made. I am currently operating with an Opera 9.2 Standard Compatible, and I am just zooming through webpages and tabs without ever thinking twice about moving my mouse pointer. I go hours without touching my mouse, I am so in-tuned with my shortcuts.

As of yet, I don't think I've seen anything touted by the Opera web browser itself to handle batch image downloads (FF or IE don't have these either).
You can try and browse the custom-created widgets to find something that might pass muster: http://widgets.opera.com/

Or, you can do as I do, and just download 'IIID', and have it open as a small little desktop app for whenever you may need it.

[AYHJA]

Firefox definitely has it via an extension called imagehost grabber...It's life changing...It's one of the few things I open FF to do now...Like if there is a post in the TGP section of AF, you can right click, save all images, and it will rip them down...It even allows for on the fly customization, you can rip any site as long as you can see a consistency on how it displays images...

About the gestures, what I'm thinking about is like say there is an image I want to save...In Firefox, my gesture extension will allow me to click and drag on the image in a particular direction and invoke an action...Click and drag left, it saves to a specific directory, click and drag right it opens the 'save to' dialog and vice versa...I'll keep playing around with what you told me, see if I can get opera to do it the same...

[¡ñ±£¿®∆L Ф¶†ïς@п]

Indeed, I do know about the imagehost grabber extension, and at times, that extension, along with videodownloader were the only two reasons why I opened Firefox some days at all.

But, the IIID image-saving application is just as good, it opens quickly, and you can you queue things, forums, and webpages, also see what you've recently downloaded, and tweak it to the specifications you'd want in a batch-image saver, which I haven't seen in IHG yet. To me, it's like comparing a fudge brownie to chocolate cake: they'll both get you your fix, and whichever happens to be the most convenient to access at the time, I'll eat (use).

[jdog]

Ja, have you tried any of these?

http://download.cnet.com/windows/offline-browsers/

[AYHJA]

I've tried a couple, so I can't vouch for all of them, but I mostly needed it for ripping pr0n sites...And for that, picaloader rules all...

[jdog]

What I like the most about Opera is the Find feature. If you press Ctrl+F it brings down the drop down (as with most browsers). As you type it finds a match and not only highlights the match on the fly but dims the screen so that you can see it better. It's all a nice and smooth motion too.

I use Find quite a bit in browsers so this one really stood out as being MUCH better than any other browser available.

Also, after all the issues that Firefox gave me while using MediaFire (due to all the Javascript) I haven't had one issue with memory usage or processor usage in Opera.

One issue I disliked with Firefox was when I would be doing something hard drive intensive, such as extracting a MKV BluRay rip from the multi-part RAR files, if I tried to save an image from the browser or even load a page with a lot of images, Firefox would stop responding. That happened no matter which version I had. I just came to accept it.

With Opera? This doesn't happen at all. I can save several images and load up many pages loaded with images and Opera never stops responding. It's the perfect multitasking web browser.

[¡ñ±£¿®∆L Ф¶†ïς@п]

Here's something to blow you away: the find feature can be utilized by the stroke of a single key, and if you hit it accidently by chance, it vanishes within 3 seconds time without subsequent key input. I haven't used ctrl+F in several months after "accidently" finding out how this works.

Try pressing the period button ". (>)" next time when not in a text box on a webpage, and the find function should pop right down, and it works like a charm. Also, once it retracts back up and out of view, whatever term or search you left in the find box, well, it can be easily searched for again by pressing crtl+G.