Opera 9.00 Final released

I don't use Firefox because it's been known to suck 500+ MB of RAM whenever I use it. This is probably due to how I tend to have 30 tabs or more open at any given point with large histories, but I still expect it not to die every time this happens with Out of Memory errors (SessionSaver was not an option for me).

I've got 27 tabs open right now and Opera's still chugging along fine. But yay for 9 being final. I've been using the Preview 2 for some time, but version bumps are fun.

* Torrents in Opera got nuked faster than you can shake a stick at them.
* Tab thumbnails, I've honestly never used.
* Didn't use that searchengine thing, but that's pretty cool.
* Content blocker never gets used by me, but I run the squid/adzapper combo (Linux only, pretty much), so Opera doesn't even know of the ads it nuked.
* Site preferences rock for those pesky sites that block non-IE users.
* The new rich text editor... huh? I just have it sending source and such to gvim.

Yay for Opera.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Or rtorrent, for that matter. I would use it if I was completely lacking a client (or otherwise unable to install one), but the configuration options are sorely limited.

And Cal, those work fine for me. I have GIF animation disabled on most sites because it's annoying, but where I do allow it, they work fine. Also, embedded video as in what, YouTube? That works fine, and I can view pretty much any video format directly by use of mplayerplug-in. I've been using it since 8.51, and it's never really been an issue.

Beyond that, I just like in Opera I didn't need to install ten different extensions to get it to do what I want. Here, everything was builtin, save adblocking which I needed squid for, but that was easy enough.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

When I used Firefox, I always liked being able to switch back to the last tab I had viewed. I think there was an extension I used for this, but anyways. A question for Aard or anyone who knows:

Is there any simple way to get a site bookmarked and have it appear in the personal bar without ticking that "Show on Personalbar" option (which also requires clicking the "Advanced" button to show it)? Curious, since I really hate that I can't make it just draw all my bookmarks.

One of the small little quirks, I suppose.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, all Identifying does is change the UAS from Opera's to the other browser, and appends "Opera" to the end. Opera 9 includes new functionality that <=8 lacked called Masking. This does the same as an Identify, but it removes the appended identifier. You do know Opera's had the Identify functionality for a long time, though, right?

I have another issue with the Linux one that really vexes me, though. That is, it seems to forget my preferences some of the time. I'll have BT disabled and the colours changed, but when I fire up Opera, on occasion it has a brain cramp and resets my BitTorrent setting--heck, sometimes even my theme changes. Amazingly, Opera 9 Preview 2 didn't have this issue.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

It is? I guess that'd explain some of my problems then, since I run ~x86. My bookmarks stay in the proper spot, but I seem to have resolved my profile problems. Make sure everything's got proper permissions, since I had a file in there that had no permission bits at all.

Kotaku does have the same image problem on my end as well.

I was speaking idiomatically.