Opera 11.51 Final Out - Meh

from JoeUser Forums

 

Opera lovers (couldn’t resist) will be happy. I wasn’t.

Opera Software has just released the final version of Opera 11.51 after two release candidates that have been released in the past week. The new version of the web browser fixes several stability issues which makes it more of a maintenance release than a release that comes along with new major features.

It also fixes several usability issues, like toolbar buttons that were no longer showing up in Opera’s user interface. Opera 11.51 fixes two security issues, also. The first was an issue “that could allow unsecured web content to appear secure” and the second an undisclosed, low severity issue. The next, it appears will be Opera 12.00.

Unfortunately, I don’t see a fix for the font rendering issue.

So for me at least, Opera remains a “it was really good once upon a time” browser.

I recommend ie9, Firefox, Pale Moon and Comodo Dragon instead.

Guess this is one Opera where the fat lady has sung.

You can download/update it through it’s help menu, or just go to http://www.opera.com .

But I wouldn’t bother.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm not letting it go. Damned be the internet and it's "You're browser is not supported" propaganda! Unless of course, there's some other browser out there that supports hotkeys like tab cycling wit the 1-2 keys, or forward-back with control+direction, or the ability to select anything in a web page just by pressing the Tab key a few times.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks for the notification Doc. :)   I still like Opera and have uses for it.

Yes, I have become one of "those people" who have different uses for 3 browsers installed at once. :rofl:   A guy's gotta have a hobby I guess. 

Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I'm so picky that no browser is truly The One for Me. But so far, I don't think any other browser can beat the ease with which I can block entire domains such as googlanalytics, twitter, and facebook in Opera.

You have to trust add-ins to get similar protection in Mozilla browsers, which is not ideal for me, and the 'private browsing' stuff in IE is horrible faux compromise designed to make folks who want real privacy on the web feel like they are always lurking in a porno store.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My biggest gripe is the font rendering. I do lots of reading for what I do here, plus Medicine, so that's critical for me.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 4
My biggest gripe is the font rendering. I do lots of reading for what I do here, plus Medicine, so that's critical for me.
End of DrJBHL's quote

Can you post some screen shots illustrating what vexes you? The only font problems I have reading online are because so many sites hate text and/or love tiny displays too much and I always have to ratchet the zoom up if I want to read without getting a headache.

Maybe it's a question of degree when it comes to aging eyes. Mine aren't quite 50 yet and I can still read a good hardback in my lap without help from manufactured lenses, but old small-font paperbacks can make reading feel like a workout for those tiny muscles around my eyes.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I really don't think this is a refractive problem.

This is borked browser rendering. No problem with other browsers. Started with 9.5 or 10.



Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

That's bizarre. Nothing like that has happened to me with Opera. Sometimes when a tab is out of focus it will, in tile or cascade mode, it'll display display a part of the page I already scrolled past, mixed with the part I'm at, making the page a jumble of stuff, and I need to click the tab to remind it where it was, but nothing like that. 

Same image, same Opera:

 Testing

 

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Everything OK here with Opera - on XP SP3 as well as on W7; both 32bit - . I guess it could be an hardware and/or software configuration related issue.  

btw, one question Doc: about Comodo Dragon setting (maybe you are running it) what do you think about the option "Enable malware domain filtering (Comodo Secure DNS)" ? Did you checked it?

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting unacomn, reply 1
Unless of course, there's some other browser out there that supports hotkeys like tab cycling wit the 1-2 keys
End of unacomn's quote

 

Pale moon (and most likely firefox since that's what pale moon is based on) let's you cycle through tabs with hotkeys Either control + the number of the corresponding tab for direct access rather then cycling through, or by control + page up/page down to cycle through, and as an added bonus, pressing control+tab brings up your browser tabs in a window like your programs pop up when you press alt+tab.  In there you can select a tab or all of them and search all of them at the same time for something...

 

Quoting unacomn, reply 1
or forward-back with control+direction
End of unacomn's quote

 

Also does this with Alternate + arrow keys

 

Quoting unacomn, reply 1
or the ability to select anything in a web page just by pressing the Tab key a few times.
End of unacomn's quote

 

Not really sure what you mean by this, but any selectable button, box, drop down, whatever can be cycled through via the tab key, the reverse is shift +tab.  Shift+Arrow keys let's you highlight text, so when you tab to an area you can start selecting it...

 

So, pending my lack of understanding for that last thing, the others are definitely covered.  Don't be afraid to try something new.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Hmm, you've made a convincing argument in favor of Pale Moon, I'll give it a go, at least as a secondary browser, for the time being.

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting inthebloodofeden, reply 8
Everything OK here with Opera - on XP SP3 as well as on W7; both 32bit - . I guess it could be an hardware and/or software configuration related issue.  

btw, one question Doc: about Comodo Dragon setting (maybe you are running it) what do you think about the option "Enable malware domain filtering (Comodo Secure DNS)" ? Did you checked it?
End of inthebloodofeden's quote

Use it all the time with Comodo Dragon (you can also choose to use it with all browsers). It's fine with me.

Slight 'pause' or hesitation, but security is fine.

Shows incomplete security certs here and JU. 

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 11
Quoting inthebloodofeden, reply 8Everything OK here with Opera - on XP SP3 as well as on W7; both 32bit - . I guess it could be an hardware and/or software configuration related issue.  

btw, one question Doc: about Comodo Dragon setting (maybe you are running it) what do you think about the option "Enable malware domain filtering (Comodo Secure DNS)" ? Did you checked it?

Use it all the time with Comodo Dragon (you can also choose to use it with all browsers). It's fine with me.

Slight 'pause' or hesitation, but security is fine.

Shows incomplete security certs here and JU.
End of DrJBHL's quote
 

Well, the incomplete security certs are shown even if Comode Secure DNS are not enabled (it depends from other security features as well). What I wnat to know is: did you made ALL THE PROCEDURE to enable Comodo Secure DNS - typing Comodo DNS codes in the Internet connection settings (Network), apply, ok - or just checked the box in "Under The Hood" section?