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February 09, 2006
Review: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, And Other Browsers In Four-Way Shootout Opera 8.5: Creating A Splash
I love it! A "session" includes all the pages you had open and the history of how you got there. Like most of you, I often finish the work day before I've finished a project, and I may have several projects going at once. Using this dialog, I can reopen Opera right where I was, and I can even click the back arrow to retrace my steps from the day before. Then there's the mouse menu. Clicking the left button doesn't only select the word, sentence or paragraph you've clicked on, it also pops up the right-button menu with additional useful and fascinating choices, such as copying the selection to a note, searching the selection using Google or another search engine, looking up the selection in an online dictionary or encyclopedia, or translating it to or from English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, or spanish. Then there are mouse gestures. Holding the right mouse button down and moving the mouse from right to left is just like clicking the back arrow. There are a host of gestures that combine with key combinations to do all sorts of things. But Wait — There's More!
If you want voice navigation, or would like Opera to read a selected word or passage aloud, you can download Opera Voice, which runs 10.5 MB. This is available only in the Windows version. Opera also comes in Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2 and QNX versions, and in a host of languages. Support for Opera has always been excellent. There's an active Opera Community Web site, as well as e-mail assistance. |
