I know a couple of people in my blog roll use Opera so I tried it. So far it is very nice but it won’t let me type posts for this blog. Hmmmm. I am typing in Word and trying to paste.
Weird....it will let me paste in "edit HTML mode, but not in "Compose". I am sure there is some way to do this and I will try to find it.
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switched to Vista last week...not that impressive. blocked my online class but other than that it's been ok. seems mostly to be all icing and very little cake!
ReplyDeleteI'm hanging on to XP as long as I can!
ReplyDeleteNot much useful I can add here, except I hope it gets fixed soon!
ReplyDeleteI used it for a while several years ago...didn't like it much but I can't recall why.
ReplyDeleteI have XP, but simply cannot stand to use Windows at all. I've been spoiled by Firefox. It's *much* faster and pages just look more professional and grownup. When I open Windows, it feels like I am using a mid-90s version of AOL! Plus Windows routinely "encounters a problem and has to close." This simply doesn't happen with Firefox...I can't say enough good about it.
Hah.
Imginemel, thanks for that information. I read an article yesterday on the way computers in general with MS operating systems are built to quickly become obsolete, via failure to properly defragment, thus becoming slow to function and it really struck me as very likely. Same story said that Vista was as bad as XP in this respect and harder to bypass the problem even for someone who knew what they were doing...so I will wait as long as I can,
ReplyDeleteLaurie...ditto!
FC, Thanks for visiting and for your shrimp and cake photos. You have my busy little cooks all a flutter about cooking something along those lines, so I suspect we will be eating well in the near future.
carina, I will give Firefox another try if I find too many problems with Opera, but so far I really like it. My son, who is a little less tech savvy than a grape, got online last night and loved it! He was able to fix his own mistakes without dragging me out of my Sunday chair and away from my new Outlanders book, so I was happy too. lol
REMEMBER: There is no computer problem out there that can't be solved with a twenty-pound sledge hammer. (Matthew's Axiom of Computer Service)
ReplyDelete"I read an article yesterday on the way computers in general with MS operating systems are built to quickly become obsolete, via failure to properly defragment"
ReplyDeleteThis is partially true, yet partially completely false. The cause to this is not windows itself, the defragmentation tool of windows though is not so powerful simply, better yet, there is no OS with a defragmentation tool powerful enough to comply with the needs of the average user.
If you set your computer to defragment overnight on a daily or weekly basis you'd not run into any problems, but if you defragment the moment your system is slowing down or even worse slowing down badly and someone notifies you about the defragmentation feature which might help, it is pretty much too late and you might find the defragmentation tool unable to complete, simply because it no longer knows what to do with it.
As for your problem with Opera, as far as I know that cannot be solved. Opera simply doesn't support rich text editing, for this the supported browsers in windows are IE 5.5+, Firefox, Mozilla 1.3+ and Netscape 7.1+. But I'm not that much into Opera, so I don't know if there's some sort of plugin or something available perhaps to enable it.
Psycho dude, thanks! I may end up using Firefox for that reason, although so far I have found workarounds for most things.
ReplyDeleteI've followed Opera for a few years, on and off; testbed of sorts and always seem to go back to the Fox. Just can't beat it.
ReplyDeleteI had Opera for a year or two, but I must say, i'm very happy with Firefox. Seems to get excellent reviews from the tech websites as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about why it didn't open up some of your favorite news sites. I wonder if there is a setting that could be changed in the options menu, so that you could reset firefox to allow you to open those websites.
I had to go into options to allow the Better Homes and Gardens website, because it was blocking it for too many java script ads.
Not sure if any of this helps, but best of luck in finding a solution!
Psycho Dude said "Opera simply doesn't support rich text editing" which was true up to Opera 8.x.
ReplyDeleteSince version 9 Opera supports RTE - I use it in Gmail, on my Wordpress blog etc.
Still there are some sites that don't support Opera or even block Opera without technical reason.
Often it helps to right click the page, select "Edit Site Preferences" - "Network" - "Identify as FF" (or IE), or even "Mask as FF" (or IE).
laura, thanks, I am hoping I can get it so I can use it because it is so fast and simple compared to other browsers I have used. I have spent a bunch of time trying to configure SOMETHING to work like Netscape did for me before it crashed. Everyone tells me Firefox will, but it really won't....at least with me in the driver's seat. lol
ReplyDeleteresearch wizard, thank you very much. I am trying that right now to see if it will let me leave a comment here without switching browsers. I REALLY appreciate your advice!
RW, thanks, as you can see it took a couple of tries, but it worked and I could leave a comment. Now if I can post I will be very happy and I thank you again.
ReplyDeleteI visited your blog on Opera and will be back to learn more when I get back in from work.