Posts Tagged by Opera
How to Easily Backup and Restore Web Browser Bookmarks (and other data too)
| 27 January 2011 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
If you are a frequent web surfer, your bookmarks will be one of your important piece of data. Usually for most of us, when we are planning to reinstall the operating system that we use, we tend to forget to backup the web browser bookmarks and other data such as saved passwords, extensions, etc. (at least for me, and most of my friends). Unless you are using web browser synchronizing services such as Opera Link or XMarks, backing up and restoring your bookmarks manually is pretty much not a user friendly step.
FavBackup is a free simple program that allows you to easily backup and restore your web browser bookmarks. FavBackup supports backup and restore the bookmarks for major web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and Flock).
Other than bookmarks, FavBackup is also able to backup full web browser profile and data such as cookies, saved passwords, site preferences, search engines and many more. This will ease the backup, restore or migration process of your web browser profile to another system.
By default, FavBackup will automatically list the profiles of the web browser that installed on your system. If you want to backup a portable web browser, FavBackup has the ability to select custom web browser profile location.
Quick Tip: How to Disable Flash in Opera Browser (and other plugin too)
| 16 May 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
I’m pretty sure some of us are actually get annoyed with Flash animations. While Firefox and Chrome have their own FlashBlock extensions, Opera Browser users don’t have the option to install extensions to the browser. However, in Opera Browser, you can actually block Flash (and other plugin) by enabling the ‘on demand plugin’ option. While this is not as inconvenience as using the FlashBlock extension where you get the extra functionalities such as the option to whilelist a site, this is better than nothing for Opera Browser users.
How to Enable On Demand Plugin in Opera Browser
1. Type opera:config in Opera’s address bar. Click the ‘User Prefs’ section and look for ‘Enable On Demand Plugin’ (1). Enable it.
Figure 1
2. Make sure you also enable the ‘Enable On Demand Plugin Placeholder’ (2) option so you can easily see if a webpage contains any plugin.
Comparison of Web Browsers JavaScript Benchmark Scores
| 30 May 2009 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Update Firefox and Opera Search Bar With Google’s New Favicon
| 20 January 2009 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Quick tips. On 9 January 2009, Google started to use new favicon on its sites. In this post, you will find how to change the old Google’s favicon to the new one in Firefox and Opera, if you feel like changing it.
Mozilla Firefox
You can update the Firefox’s default Google search plugin to show the new Google search icon:
1. Download this updated version of the Google search plugin (right click to save).
2. Copy it to your searchplugins folder in your Firefox install folder (usually in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins on Windows), and overwrite the existing google.xml file.
3. Save the file and restart Firefox.
[via: Mozilla Links]
Opera
1. Make sure Opera is not running. Go to the directory where Opera is installed (usually in C:\Program Files\Opera). Open search.ini with Notepad to edit it.
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Opera Browser Mouse Gestures That You Might Not Know
| 14 December 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Everyone have their own favourite web browser. As for me, my favourite web browser is Opera. Why Opera? Even though Opera is not open source like Mozilla Firefox, it has a lot of great features that make me love Opera. One of them is the mouse gestures. The mouse gestures feature in Opera is indeed the most powerfull feature that a browser can have. Opera allows you to fully customize the mouse gestures.
8 Portable Browsers for Windows, Bring Your Favourite Web Browsers Everywhere You Go
| 12 December 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Most of us usually have our own favourite web browsers that we use to access the world wide web. Each of these browsers have their own characteristics and features that made us love them. For November 2008, 49.13% of TMS Network’s blog visitors use Mozilla Firefox to visit this blog, 39.2% uses Internet Explorer, 5.13% uses Opera, 3.33% uses Google Chrome and 1.7% uses Safari. As for me, I like to take my favourite web browser in my pendrive so I can use it if I go to internet cafe or at work. This allows me to use the browser with my own settings, addons and any customizations that I’ve done. In this post, I will list a few portable web browser that we can install and run from a portable USB drive.
Opera@USB
Since this is my favourite web browser, I will start with Opera. The portable version of Opera has the same features as the normal desktop version, surf the web, write emails, or use IRC. In fact, with Opera Link, you can synchronize your bookmark, notes, history and speed dial. Opera Link works very well with the portable version of Opera. You can expect it to be functional as the desktop version. However, the portable version cannot run directly from network (using \\192.168.1.10\Opera Portable\ path for example). You need to mount the directory as network drive first.
Opera Link, The Ultimate Synchronizing Service For Opera Browser
| 7 December 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Opera Link is the ultimate free service by Opera that allows you to sync your Opera Browser’s informations wherever you go. If Opera is your favourite web browser, then you should use Opera Link. Opera Link will let you to save bookmarks, notes, custom searches, typed browser history, the Personal Bar and Speed Dial settings to the online “Opera Link” service.
Once you logged in to Opera Link service, the synching process is fully automated and simple. Your browser data will be automatically synchronized until you logged out. With Opera Link, your browser data is stored online, and the best thing is you can also synchronize the data with other Opera browsers such as Opera Mini which can be run on your mobile phone.
How to use Opera Link on your PC
1. If you don’t have My Opera account yet, you can sign up for it freely.
2. On your Opera Browser, go to File > Synchronize Opera…
3. Click Opera Link Options (1) to select what type of data that you want to be synchronized. You can synchronize bookmarks, speed dial, personal bar, notes, typed history and searches.
Disabling Opera BitTorrent Download
| 30 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Since version 9, Opera has built in bittorrent download manager, and by default, Opera will ask you if you want to use the built in bittorrent download manager to download files from bittorrent network when you’ve downloaded a .torrent file. This is quite annoying since we cannot save the .torrent file to be use in our favourite bittorrent client.
If you are new to Opera web browser, here are the simple steps to disable the built in bittorrent download manager in Opera. Open a new tab in Opera. type about:config (1) in the address. Click ‘BitTorrent’ (2), untick ‘Enable’ (3), and hit ‘Save’ (4). Just as simple as that, and you’ve disabled the built in bittorrent download manager in Opera. Now, .torrent file will be treated as a normal file that can be downloaded.
Auto-complete *.org and *.net in Opera
| 13 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
If you are using Firefox, you should know that typing ‘foo’ in the address bar and pressing CTRL+Enter will auto-complete it to http://www.foo.com, pressing Shift+Enter to http://www.foo.net and CTRL+Shift+Enter to http://www.foo.org. In Opera browser, by default, you will only get the CTRL+Enter for auto-complete. Below are the steps to enable the Shift+Enter and CTRL+Shift+Enter in Opera (or any other key if you want to).
Web Browser Memory Usage: Firefox vs Flock vs Internet Explorer vs Opera
| 10 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
I am actually a heavy tab user, usually every time I am browsing the Internet, I opened average 10 tabs and maybe more. My desktop PC is running on 2.66Ghz Pentium 4 which is quite slow for a heavy tab user like me. I’ve tested a lot of browsers that doesn’t require a lot of resources even when opening lots of tabs. So far, I found that Flock 1.2.1 is very suitable for me. Flock is a browser with Web 2.0 features, built on Firefox. Flock 1.2.1 is based on Firefox 2.
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