What are your opinions on Opera? I tried Opera a while back on both Linux and windows. I thought it was too heavy and busy. I found it ran a little slower on both systems than firefox.

Maybe I'll try it again.

eriefisher

eriefisher wrote:What are your opinions on Opera?

eriefisher

I too tried it a while back and discarded it. But the latest version seems to be very fast. It is now much faster than IceWeasel on my system.

Just loaded it on the work computer this morning (Win XP) and am happy with that as well.

Both Linux and Windows versions have something new (to me) -- a Speed Dial feature that shows up to nine of your favorite places right on the desktop, so you simply click on which you want to open. Just like having a bookmark except quicker.

I just downloaded the debian testing .deb and installed it via dpkg -i with no trouble.

Your right about the speed. It opens extremely quick, alot faster than Iceweasel. I'll have to play with it for a while and see how it goes.

eriefisher

eriefisher wrote:I just downloaded the debian testing .deb and installed it via dpkg -i with no trouble.

That is because you remembered"dpkg -i" and I drew a blank when I tried. __{{emoticon}}__

(I started using Linux as a SlackHead, so have a compile-from-source mindset.)

I followed the idea. I run >dpkg -i opera_9.24-20071015.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb to install and then >opera &. Opera runs (really fast!) but I get an error message:

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
XtUngrabButton(drawArea,3,0)
Warning: Attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab

Can I correct it?

Thanks for great idea of using opera on Antix. I started to use it recently on XP and it finally won over all other browsers I tried. So it will probably do under Linux for me. I don't like heavy and slow firefox but others I tried under Linux (like dillo) don't reproduce many web pages in a usable way.