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| Opera 9.27 Review: Part I |
| 摘自: www.osweekly.com 被阅读次数: 23 |
由 yangyi 于 2008-05-08 18:24:27 提供 |
(Review) - When you first run Opera, on Ubuntu anyway, you will note the appearance of a Terms Of Service (TOS) agreement. Once I got past that, I also found out that I needed to activate the status bar. Apparently, Opera does not provide this as active by default. Surfing Test. In the past, Opera has had issues with some secured Web sites. Most specifically, some bank Web sites. And to be fair, so does Konqueror. But this does not excuse the fact that IE7, Firefox and Epiphany Web browsers don’t have any issues at all. I consider it a showstopper to be something that prevents access to something as common as select secured Web sites, such as banks here in the US. Aside from that issue, Opera is light years faster than other browsers I have tried in the past. Most pages load in a fraction of a second on broadband, even during peak usage times. But even with its tremendous speed, some pages using WordPress, among other content management systems, are not always being rendered correctly. Not all WordPress pages mind you, but some heavily modified ones that even manage to adhere to Web standards, do have some pictures or other images that are "off" in some odd fashion. I guess you would call it off-center. After investigating it further, it turned out that the cause seems to be the use of "ContentLink" Ads. Just going to the Kontera homepage caused Opera to completely freeze on me. Perhaps this is just Opera on Ubuntu, but something leads me to believe otherwise. Trying again a second time, the page loaded fine. It seems like Opera is struggling with a consistent experience, but that is something that each of you ought to decide for yourselves. Everyone is different. Features, Widgets And RSS Feeds. - Author mode. Those that need to look at a Web page as a developer will appreciate this mode. Disable common CSS features, tweak and even see a Web page in every way possible. This is truly a great asset to Web developers for sure. - Save browsing sessions. Again, a must have feature for anyone wishing to save their place within their browser. I believe the next revision of Firefox is going to offer this, Opera has it today. - Widgets. Reminiscent of Firefox Add-ons, Opera widgets are created in much the same spirit and offer much of the same kind of browser extending functionality. - RSS Feed Management. One area where Firefox to this day falls flat on its face. Instead of forcing me to use some silly online-based RSS reader, Opera provides me with a real tested and true RSS reader that is tightly integrated into the browser itself. Its very feature rich and well put together. Best of all, it just opens up in a new tab when I queue it to do so. - Email and chat access. Email access to everything from POP3 to IMAP mail is a snap with Opera's built-in email client. And of course, Opera also provides IRC chat as well. - Notes. Yes, the features just keep coming. While I think we may be going overboard with the features here, Opera does provide an interesting notes utility with decent functionality. - Magic Wand. Definitely one of the more effective ways to manage account logins, this option gives me one click access to all of my user logins, saving me a lot of wasted time. - Speed Dial. Difficult to describe with any level of accuracy, basically I'd call it a stronger UI for the most used favorites. Drag drop usage, just click on a page thumbnail to visit the site off a saved Web page location. More coming… Stay tuned for Part II and the final conclusion… Original link: http://www.osweekly.com/index.ph... |
