Opera 11 goes final

The Best. Been a big fan of Opera browser for a long time now. There was a minor speed bump of bugs when 10.x first came out but starting at 10.10 it has been top notch. Once you learn all of Opera's nuances using any other browser feels outdated and not as well thought out for a user. Speed is right there with Chrome, built in mail/rss and now with the 11.x extensions there is no more excuses to try it.<p>The little browser that could.

After a quick look-over, I'll be sticking with Chrome due to two small UX issues that Chrome does exceedingly well:<p>1. Despite both having "tabs on top", in Chrome tabs extend all the way to the edge of the screen. In Opera, there's a small unclickable border area. This is a basic, basic Fitts' Law mistake that makes it so much harder to click tabs.<p>2. Chrome does that thing where when you close a tab, the "close" button of the next tab ends up <i>exactly under your mouse pointer.</i> This is such a nice and natural feature that you forget there was any alternative. Firefox and Opera both get this so wrong.

This is a great browser, and the competition is always good for the users.<p>For me it was easier when the only choice was hating IE and going for Firefox, right now i struggle between my emotions to use one or other wonderful browser as my main one...<p>When firefox 4 comes its going to be even harder...

This is kind of off topic, but the Opera system tray icon drives me nuts and it is probably driving someone else nuts too. For whatever reason, the /notrayicon switch does not work for me after I upgraded. I'm not sure if previous versions have this, but in this one you can disable the tray icon via opera:config.<p>Paste opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowTrayIcon in the address bar, uncheck, save and restart.

Install Opera 11, visit intranet page, get prompted for password.<p>Search NTLM in config, it's got one option which is enabled.<p>(That Chrome for business blog post yesterday got me to retry Chrome which supports NTLM automatically by default).<p>Close opera, uninstall. Uninstall prompts that it crashed while editing preferences (it didn't) and offers to send a crash report.<p>I wonder if I could get a job as a software tester? I always hit bizarro behaviour just trying to use software normally.

I switched to Chrome a couple weeks ago, I really love Opera and have used it for years, but it reached the point where it would take a full minute or two just to end the process after I closed the browser and 30+ seconds just to open it the first time. Drove me nuts, only happens on my desktop at least.

I've been a fan since Opera fit on a floppy disk (3 or 4)? It has always been the fastest browser, except for the stinch in 9 and parts of 10. I've always had it installed and would use it along Chrome, FF, Flock. Eleven is just wonderful. Its fast as lighting, you can try this test, load up like 20 pages and close it. Now open it again, no 30 seconds of waiting for it to crunch it all up like in FF. Amazing! It also seems to respond more like it did from 6 and below where back mean truly instant redraw. Bravo Opera. Now we just need some extensions...

After upgrading, it kept freezing every time I started it. Turns out it was choking on the Google Body Browser tab. Quickly switching to Body Browser and closing the tab before it could load prevented it from freezing again, but it's not a permanent fix, or something I should be expected to do every time a tab becomes unresponsive. There ought to be a way to detect and kill unresponsive tabs.

Related:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011423" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011423</a> - opera.com - no comments<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011357" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011357</a> - arpitnext.com - no comments

Be careful: I just installed it and it decided it will be my default browser and take over the file associations (.htm, .html, .xhtml) and protocol associations from Firefox.<p>I thought we left this kind of crappy warfare in the late 90s.

Indic fonts are broken in both on Linux and Windows versions.<p>Disappointment :(<p>back to good old Firefox

I want to try and love Opera, but every time I try it out something goes wrong. Now, installing on Ubuntu I get:<p>"Error: Breaks exisiting package 'opera-static' conflict: opera ( )"

First bug so far: opening yahoo mail hyperlinks stalls forever in the current tab. It is fixed by opening all links in new tabs.<p>Anyway, the built-in adblock is top-notch.

I was excited about this, however after 5 minutes of use it seems more buggy than the beta. Guess I'm excited for 11.0.1 now.