Do more on the web, with a fast and secure browser!
Download Opera browser with:
Hey Christoph, nice to see you've obtained mod status 
Sure, I mean I'm not really expecting the signed installers to be tampered with in the future, but it's still a nice-to-have as a reference in case Opera decides to remove earlier builds any time and they end up on third-party sites.
Tbh I'm probably being being too tinfoil hat, as the signatures would be invalidated anyway and the type of people noticing that would be slim. I can always post some here come to think of it.
As per title. Figured I'd post in the lower traffic Mac sub forum, but it applies to all versions. If a mod feels it's better moved that's fine too 
Hashes listed of all the official installers available on the site would be useful for future reference and archive. Is this available somewhere currently?
Would be a good idea considering how many questions continue to be Presto. It's unfortunate Opera deleted the previous forum, which even if surviving as a read-only resource would have continued to be immeasurably useful to Presto users.
Also honestly glad leushino isn't around to troll anymore. The guy never stopped causing arguments and general dissension.
Update: the settings were within the user profile>Preferences.
The new forum offers no settings in the user profile to configure notifications for starred/favorite discussions.
How can I disable email notifications for these discussions while still keeping them starred on the site?
That's of course only the stats from W3Schools own site, every site will be different. I think Opera's useragent string has changed since v15 to be generic anyway which probably doesn't help with statistics.
Originally posted by rilef:
I've been using Opera 18+ almost exclusively for the past month and have found it to be awesome, better than "very good".
I think the only browser I'd call awesome is Opera Presto :lol: Still, I do think Firefox is better than it ever has been. I haven't been following the successive releases of Opera Blink as closely as before, is there much improvement feature-wise from 15/16?
Originally posted by kesetrum:
I am webmaster and editing many CSS/HTML code etc.
The main reason why I still stick in Opera 12x are:
- Load back/accident post. AFAIK, only Presto have this ability. even after successfully post, I am still can do revert previous one only click BACK
- The Opera Dragonfly, is different than WebKit or Gecko/Firebug Inspect element.Presto has nice "real time" live mouse hover and show the styles.
- I am still have thousands of Notes instead of important Speed Dial.But, still I am facing the big 5 fact. That my visitor still use Chrome, WebKit, IE and Presto Engine,including Opera Mini.
So, for testing site, I use current Opera 18x and Firefox also IEWell, I remember many years ago. I am using Intel Pentium 300MHz with 256MB of RAM. At that time, IE was buggy and consume high cpu resources. While Firefuk had many memory leakage problem. Only Opera is the winner, can open many many tabs at once with LOWEST memory & CPU consumption. Dang..
So, quick update: I've been using Firefox exclusively for the past month and have found it to be very good.
In terms of the browser remembering entered text it actually does a better job than Opera. Firefox remembers text entered in fields even after closing and re-opening the browser, as well as pressing Back generally. Haven't tried testing submitting a form then pressing back yet. Edit: just did now, and it works :lol:
For memory usage it's stayed between 350MB-450MB running with 25 addons and various userscripts, etc. So far a very positive experience coming from Opera 12, although it's no easy task setting it up initially with the type of things I wanted to customize. Once I did, however it's a pretty solid
Originally posted by rilef:
Add keywords to Firefox or SeaMonkey bookmarks by right-clicking any bookmark, then select Properties. No extension is necessary. Firefox and SeaMonkey keywords work like Opera 12 bookmark nicknames.
Ah, I can see it now (on OSX there's no Properties context menu item for bookmarks), there's an 'expand' arrow in the bookmark manager pane that displays the extra input box. Good to know , saves an extra addon for some.
I suppose the benefit of the addon is adding the Keyword input box to the pop-up bookmark star in the addressbar when you first create one, as well as Description, and a few other options, similar to expanding Opera's 'Details' button.
Anyway, back on topic ;). Cross-posting from another thread in case it may be helpful:
Originally posted by laurenbacall:
Originally posted by serious:
Well, not stopped using it, but def. pushing back any upgrade and looking for viable replacements (firefox looks good with a handful of extensions), but need yet to find something that supports bookmarks shortcuts which I use waaay often.
The Add Bookmark Here² addon for Firefox can add keywords to bookmarks (it basically uses the same system Firefox uses for custom searches but adds it to bookmarks). Forgot to mention this in that addons list I posted about :p
The Speed Dial addon also allows adding of multiple sites per tile, separated by a pipe character (|). It can then be used as a kind of bookmark folder, opening each site in it's own tab.
I would have added it to my original post if it weren't for the 24-hour edit limit :rolleyes:
Originally posted by findkfn:
And you are sure thats because of tab utilities ?
I have no such toolbar here.
It only appears with that addon enabled, so yes, I'm pretty sure.
New addons
A few more I'm trying out.
Keyconfig (no, not the original one 
)
Found a much better keyboard customization addon. It's not available through the regular Addon library, you can find it in this thread.
It's very nice, and allows for any custom keyboard shortcut (well, combos that is). Uses code for each shortcut, so for more documentation see the thread page, and here and here. It also changes the actual menu shortcut hints, unlike the previous addon I was trying. Not to be confused with the addon in the regular addon library by the same name.
I have replaced the Customizable Shortcuts, Single Key Tab Switch, and Image Block addons with keyconfig. See this thread for the code for Next/Previous tab switching, and this thread for the toggle Images on/off code.
Mozilla Archive Format
An alternative MHT saving addon which is far simpler to install than unMHT and actually integrates into the regular Save As dialog (unlike unMHT). Still prefer Opera 12's MHT output though, as well as the fact that with general file downloading Opera seems to save from cache while Firefox redownloads files (:irked: ).
NextPlease
A fast-forward/rewind addon that can be triggered by keyboard shortcuts, buttons or menu items. By default it's very good at choosing the next page of paginated sites, but it can be further enhanced by adding image URLs of buttons from sites to target them specifically, as well as Regexp, etc.
Originally posted by ersi:
Which version of Opera?
Opera 12.15. Looking at the Activity Monitor Opera is currently using about 100MB less virtual and physical memory, but it depends. When I replied initially loading a bunch of the same tabs resulted in the slight edge to Firefox.
A few months ago Opera didn't handle Flash very well and would swell up memory-wise so I enabled the plugins on demand feature which helped greatly. After extended use Opera for me can end up using quite a lot of memory until restarted.
I'll keep an eye on usage over the next week.
Originally posted by Salahuddin1:
Wow, that is a great list. Those certainly are a lot of extensions. Did you run them all on Firefox? What is the memory usage like with so many extensions?
I used to use unMHT a while back when I used Firefox (before Opera) and I found that some files didn't work/save properly. Perhaps these issues have been ironed out now, but just in case, I have been saving websites to PDF instead MHT. I personally use Foxit Reader as my primary PDF reader (faster, more functional and lighter than Adobe) and it installs a PDF printer, so you can just print a website to a PDF file. There is also PDFmyURL[/URL" target="_blank">http://PDFmyURL.com]PDFmyURL[/URL], which you can drag to your Bookmarks Toolbar.
Yes, all in Firefox v25. The memory usage is about the same as Opera, even a little less sometimes. As for PDFs Mozilla introduced a custom Javascript renderer in Firefox, so atm I think I'll stick to that for one less addon ;). They really are pushing ahead in that area, recently releasing Shumway, a SWF Flash file renderer in Javascript, too.
Originally posted by findkfn:
Features still lacking
- Tab stacking.
Have you tried the tab utilities addon that was mentioned above ?
Works perfect.
Just enable "dragtostack" in the advanced settings list.
Originally posted by zhnujm:
Originally posted by Makavcio:
^ and ^^
I've just spent a coffee break on trying to make FF work like Opera. I tried to install those Tab Utilities, but the newest version seems to be incompatible with the latest firefox and the one I downloaded, a little older version, just made all my tabs flicker and no content is displayed in any of them. Lovely.Just use the newest 1.6pre5 from here, it works fine with the current firefox ( i use v25):
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tab-utilities/versions/
Tried it out, seems interesting. BTW the 'advanced' setting I could only find via the about:config dialog not via the GUI. The addon is essentially a replacement for Tab Mix Plus.
When stacked the tab background changes to a strange green in my theme, but Stylish could probably fix that.
Strangely Tab Utilities seems to add an irremovable toolbar full of buttons to links of 'Total Commander', 'UltraCompare', 'FreeGate', etc. Bizarre. Can't say I'd want to continue using it based on this experience.
In this post are my general impressions using Firefox, as well as the addons mentioned above.
Firefox is a good browser, and because it is quite customizable it certainly scores more points than Chrome. Browsing is smooth and responsive (although Opera can be perceptively quicker in many cases) and there has yet to be crash or hang.
Comparatively Opera Presto has more overall UI polish and predictability - that is, as Firefox has so many addons loaded it doesn't always behave as predictably UI-wise as Opera does natively. Things such as custom context menu orders may revert back, and other small quirks. These things aren't deal-breaking however.
I could see myself adapting to Firefox if the time comes where Opera is no longer compatible with enough sites, or slows down to an usuable point. Until then I'll be switching back and forth between them trying out new addons. All part of the tinking fun 
That said read on for various points that are worth mentioning.
Firefox annoyances
- When a page loading is manually canceled (with Stop/Esc) partially loaded images - even if 90% loaded - will become blank again, appearing as if they haven't loaded at all. Contrary to Opera's behavior of displaying whatever has already loaded.
- Location bar (aka addressbar) is more visually cluttered and has two lines per entry. Pressing the down arrow to highlight suggestions sometimes highlights a lower-placed suggestion, which is confusing. Also seems to be no recently typed addresses drop-down (it's possible to use the ~ character to restrict to typed history only however).
- While a page is loading after a link has been clicked, but before it has refreshed the screen, often there will be another link I'll open in a background tab quickly from the currently displayed page before the new one has loaded. Firefox only sometimes successfully catches these attempts, even if there seems enough time to.
- No ability to open searches in new tabs from textboxes. Same for the addressbar. In Opera it would be Shift+Enter, etc.
Features still lacking
- Tab stacking.
- Full keyboard shortcut customization (eg: any key combination desired including mnemonic). Not being able to tie every aspect of the browser's settings to a shortcut, or create custom buttons is disappointing, and I regularly miss many of them I had set up in Opera (stylesheets, tab operations, etc).
- Full-featured custom searches. While Firefox does include the ability to add basic custom searches via bookmarks with keywords they aren't accessible via a text selection context menu (in Opera it would be 'Search With>'). Additionally JSON autosuggestion can't be manually added to custom searches.
- Ctrl+click to save images (Alt+Ctrl+click if also a link). Likely this is possible to add support for via a script/addon but I couldn't find anything in my searches.
- Decent RSS feed preview styling. Far too basic compared with Opera's own and it's mods. It may be possible to style using a userstyle, but none could be found.
- Spacial navigation, eg: being able to use Shift+arrow keys to visually navigate links on a page. Occasionally useful for long link lists, etc, but not essential.
- Various great Opera-only addons and userscripts. The Google single-key keyboard shortcuts un-hijacker is one such sorely missed incompatible userscript :c Opera has a good many quality addons which often are more effective than comparable addons on other browsers.
Improvements over Opera
- On demand tab loading. A useful optional feature that only loads open tabs when clicked.
- Tab Mix Plus (certain features). Allows more thoughtful opening of tabs in relation to one another, eg: open related tabs next to each other, etc. Various other popup options are also grouped in this addon's settings.
That's most of what I've noticed while using Firefox over the past week. Everyone's configuration will be different according to tastes, so it will interesting to hear about other recommendations, too 
So, after updating Firefox to version 25 I took the plunge to see how well Firefox could match Opera 12's basic functionality. Obviously nothing is perfect, and there are still numerous things missing/lacking, and I'll be outlining such things in a following post.
Firstly, an overview of the addons I have installed (in alphabetical order):
Addons
Also see: Tab Scope (tab hover thumbnails with live scrolling + more), and Add to Search Bar (add custom searches to Search bar*).
* It should also be noted that Firefox supports custom searchs with keywords out of the box, simply right-click a search box, add a keyword, and it will be placed in your bookmarks folder as a special bookmark .
Well, that is quite a list! Below are my settings for Private Tab, Speed Dial, Tab Mix Plus, and more.
Stylish custom userstyles
Copy and paste the code in the boxes below into a new blank Stylish styles to look more like Opera.
Speed Dial tab icon + Private Tab icons & backgrounds
Changes the Speed Dial tab icon to match Opera's, as well as the private tab/window icon and backgrounds to match Opera's own. Note: I'm using OSX and the FxChrome theme, as such the backgrounds may need to be changed for other OSes as mentioned in my comments below.
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
@-moz-document url("chrome://browser/content/browser.xul"),
url("chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul") {
/* Speed Dial tab icon replacement (for use with Speed Dial addon) */
tab[label$="Speed Dial"] .tab-icon-image {
width: 0 !important;
background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAMAAAAoLQ9TAAAAb1BMVEUAAAD///////////8hKTInLzkqMTs3P0o1PUg+RVAhKjMnLzk8RE5DS1ZCSVQqMTwuOUk1QFA2QFA+Slk+SlomMT4uOEUuOEY2P002QE4kLTgkLTkjLDcpMT0pMT4rND4rND8wOEMwOEQuND8uNUBtnZekAAAAJXRSTlMAU1Rmt7i5w8XFxsbGxsfJ0dLS1NTV1tbY2Nra29vb3Nzd3d/fO+9ljgAAAFRJREFUGFedzDcCgCAAQ9Eo9ooFK3bvf0YHGDIw+Ye3JcCP6veJCODuu4sAynmqCMATwieA/DxCAtjbZiOAdBwKwvGRrUtgsGkptcEWK5UYbDx39QFlEgf07+e6BgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==") !important;
padding-left: 16px !important;
}
/* Private tab icon replacement + text underline removed (for use with Private Tab addon) */
.tabbrowser-tab[privateTab-isPrivate] {
text-decoration: none !important;
}
.tabbrowser-tab[privateTab-isPrivate] .tab-icon-image,
.tabbrowser-tab[privateTab-isPrivate] .tab-throbber,
.tabbrowser-tab[privateTab-isPrivate][pinned] .tab-icon-image,
.tabbrowser-tab[privateTab-isPrivate][pinned] .tab-throbber {
width: 0 !important;
background: url("data:image/png;base64,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") !important;
padding-left: 16px !important;
border-bottom: none !important;
}
/* Private tab bar background gradient override (for OSX, to match FxChrome theme, may want to be changed for other themes) */
#main-window:not([browsingmode="private"]) {
/* background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, hsl(0,0%,90%) 0%, hsl(0,0%,65%) 50px) !important; */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, hsl(0,0%,83%) 0%, hsl(0,0%,65%) 50px) !important;
}
/* Private window tab bar background gradient (for OSX, may want to be changed for other OSes) */
#main-window:not([browsingmode="private"])[privateTab-isPrivate] {
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #bfc4d9 0%, #8f99a8 50px) !important;
}
}
RSS feeds icon back in addressbar
Adds the missing feeds icon back in the addressbar. Personally I made a couple position and background modifications for OSX and the FxChrome theme.
Narrower pinned tabs size
@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
.tab-throbber[pinned],
.tab-icon-image[pinned] {
-moz-margin-start: 0px !important;
-moz-margin-end: 0px !important;
}
General settings
Speed Dial
At the moment I'm using a theme called 'Fresh and Cool style' :rolleyes: :lol:. It can easily be added via the site with Stylish installed.
As for the default tile size settings I'm currently using:
Minimum width: 200px
Maximum width: 1200px
Width modifier: 80 (% of the available size)
Minimum height: 50px
Maximum height: 400px
Height modifier: 35 (margin in pixels)
Tab Mix Plus
Instructions on how to add Shift+click/Ctrl+click suppport for opening links. To close tabs with Shift+click go to the TMP preferences>Mouse>Shift+click and select 'Close tab' from the first dropdown.
That's it for now, I will follow up this post with some general impressions so as to not make this post even longer :jester: