i use firefox,but for the last 3 days i have been trying out opera and beleive it or not i like it alot.it seems faster than firefox 3 on my pc.i might even just make it my new browser of choice.i just wanted to know if im suppose to leave it just like it is after downloading it,i mean, do i leave it on its default settings or what?case when i go to preferences it has alot of settings an its hard to understand.can anyone help me out on this an help me set up opera? thanks i really appreciate it!
Heyyy, there ... Chargers! Welcome to the Opera!
Opera's my favorite Browser. If you like Opera 9.51, you would have LOVED Opera 9.27. That was my 1st version of Opera. I've only been with Opera probably for about ohhh around 3 months I guess. Opera 9.51 has some Bugs, in case you haven't checked out the Opera Forum.
Anyway, as to your inquiry. My suggestion would be that if you already like it a lot, take it easy and NOT try to change too much as like I said, 9.51 does have Bugs and you don't want to Wig It Out by making wholesale changes.
I'm nowhere near as knowledgeable as some of the Opera Gurus over at the Opera Forum. So, I kept MY changes simple. Here are some of the simple changes that I've done to my Opera.
(1) I HAVE put up some of my
Favs on the
Speed Dial.
(2) At
View ...
Toolbars, I enabled
Panels and the
Personal Bar.
(3) From the Panel on the Left Side of the screen, I open up the
Bookmarks Panel.
(4)
Tools ...
Appearance ...
Panels TabCheck Mark -
Select panel toggle at edge of window This will allow you to with the Little Triangle in the middle of the Left Side of the screen ... Toggle between having the Panel (Bookmarks Panel) Open or having it Closed and thus, Full Screen for site display.
(5)
Tools ...
Appearance ...
ToolbarsWhere it says - Progress Bar, select
Pop-up at the bottom. This will now have a very detailed, more useful Progress Bar pop up at the bottom of pages as they load instead of the much smaller default Progress Bar at the top.
(6)
Tools ...
Preferences ...
Advanced TabClick on History at the Left. I changed the Disk Cache Size to 100MB, but that's just me.
(7) I put up 7 of my Favs up on the Personal Bar.
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And now THIS one, should have really been at the top. It is for me, anyway and for a lot of Opera 9.51 Users. I don't know about you, but I along with a LOT of Opera Users who began with some other version than 9.50 or 9.51 ...
HATE the
Default Skin that 9.50 and 9.51 came up with. A lot of us liked the Default Skin on Opera 9.27 or other versions. So, if you want to, you can download other Skins from here:
http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/?show=pop(9)
Help ...
CommunityHover Cursor over - Explore
Click on -
ForumsRegister and Join
You can then get to ask for all sorts of Help at the Opera Browser Forum.