Opera Browser Thread

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#1

So, ruario made an announcement on LinuxQuestions today:

Anyone following my tweets over the last couple of days would probably have guessed this already but in case you missed it, we released a development version of our Blink-based Opera for Linux.

It is very early days so this initial version is provided as a 64-Bit Deb and the UI only looks (semi) correct when running under Unity but … it is a start. If anyone desperately wants to try it and can’t wait for more packages to start to appear, my personal notes ( https://gist.github.com/ruario/99522c94838d0680633c )will get you an install, which you should be able to cleanly remove later, should you need to. The notes are unsupported and usage of them is entirely at your own risk.

P.S. I’ll probably make a SlackBuild when I get a spare moment. The Arch guys already have a PKGBUILD.

So it seems we’ll have a Linux version when Opera 24 gets released.

Been waiting for it for a while as i was sort of a fan, but got used to not using it in the previous year and a half. + Qupzilla is out now, and it’s quite promising + it plays nicely with KDE, visual aspect wise.

Your thoughts on the new Opera browser?

#2

Hi
Have you looked at the otter-browser I’ve packaged up?
http://otter-browser.org/
http://software.opensuse.org/package/otter-browser?search_term=otter-browser

#3

No, I haven’t, I’ve just recently heard of it. Installing as we speak. Will post experience.

Thanks malcolm!

edit: I see i have to have qt5? If i install it, is there any chance of messing up my kde?

Thanks.

#4

I hope that makes it into the next opensuse release.

I do have Qupzilla in my install of Factory, though I have not yet done any extensive testing.

#5

Qupzilla is quite nice actually. Where it messed with sites i just set the user agent to change for that specific site.
But for now there’s onw deal breaker - It doesn’t accept .p12 digital certificates, but even if i change it to .pem, which the browser accepts, it doesn’t want to autologin using the certificate, because the site won’t let me in otherwise.

#6

On Mon 23 Jun 2014 05:46:01 PM CDT, holden87 wrote:

No, I haven’t, I’ve just recently heard of it. Installing as we speak.
Will post experience.

Thanks malcolm!

edit: I see i have to have qt5? If i install it, is there any chance of
messing up my kde?

Thanks.

Hi
What version(s) of qt are installed?

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#7

Is there any adblock available for otter? I really like it but the ads on some sites are just too annoying for me to deal with.

#8

Hi
There is an issue open about content block https://github.com/Emdek/otter/issues/206 still open though…

#9

qt4, it seems. what comes default with kde 4.11

#10

No.
Qt4 and qt5 are independent from each other, and can be installed side-by-side without issues. Just like qt3 and qt4.

Your KDE4 will of course continue to use qt4.

#11

I think they made a mistake of a lifetime for not opening up Presto. (I don’t know if it’s legally even possible, though). With existing infrastructure and functionality, and a gazzillion new devs they would become a cult project.
But, they made their choice. And their choice is no Linux from 15 to 24. 'nuff said.

#12

Seems there’s no news of this on our beautiful forums: Couple of weeks ago, Opera for Linux entered the stable branch, and our great community packaged it rather instantly: http://software.opensuse.org/package/opera

I tried it, but didn’t like it too much.

pros:

  • looks great
  • the new bookmarking features are rather nice.

cons:
-can’t modify appearance too much, it just takes the mac-ish blue color, instead of incorporating the system’s green one :slight_smile:
-always opens in a minimal window, had to manually spread it every time
-can’t import bookmarks

What’s your take on it?