Yes... the validity of the arguments, indeed... How much does your God weights? One kilogram? two kilograms? a tonne? can't be weighted? he doesn't exist. The cumulus of "valid" thinking.
How much does God weigh? Hmm, hard to answer taking into consideration the lack of gravity in His habitat.
Therefore let me ask you something more simple. God created man. Doesn't He?
Did He only create Adam and Eve as we are told or did He start mass production? If it was only Adam and Eve, were they black, white or of other color for that matter?
Nobody ever managed to come up with a halfway sane explanation on how the voice in his head created the universe yet they trot out that particular piece of nonsense every goddamn time.
Trying to explain the 'inexplicable' is part of human nature. Besides, very handy if you can institutionalize a dogma turning it into an instrument of power.
It made perfect sense to me under the assumption that you meant some of his crossed out items were a bit overreaching, or that you considered many of them insufficient.
It could have been the case but it wasn't. I simply misunderstood the meaning of crossed out items.
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For instance, is tab stashing truly equivalent to having many dozens of pages open?
No it isn't. It's kind of lousy workaround. Same way I could use Opera notes instead of tabs. Neither is Blink equivalent to Presto nor vice versa. When "the silent transition under the hood" was anounced in the forums, general resonance was positive. It was very sad news for some of us but most people endorsed the change. At this point in spite of my frustration I couldn't blame Opera for doing something most users endorsed. They killed their own baby but that wasn't my business albeit it was/still is my favorite baby as well.
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I regularly have more than 100 tabs on my tab bar in Opera 12. This has been possible because Presto is an efficient little engine that handles these kinds of situations better than anything else. In Opera 15, though, I have found that opening a lot of tabs makes for a rather poor browsing experience. As a result, I have started adding pages to my Stash whenever there's something I'm not going to do right away or in the immediate future.
The way I read it: With Blink it won't work so use Stash as a workaround.
Harvaard's list is incomplete. I can't blame him for it because some items were considered so basic at the time he wrote that list, that including them would have been laughable. Proxy settings come to my mind. A browser that can't be configured to use a proxy which you can turn on and off on the fly is almost useless for me.
Any sane person would prefer plain-text configuration but who cares about users especially sane ones. The only possible advantage of .db might be a few milliseconds speed gain at cost of memory but only on modern computers. On elder ones it might be slower.
It takes a bit of searching around the net to get the NPSWF32.dll plugin only, but it's possible. [1], [2]
You might also check number [3] It's a special one (v.11.8.800.168) No Flash cookies and .swf content will be saved automatically in your .temp folder. You just have to change the file name from .temp to .MP4
Edit: Content won't be saved on Youtube. They have changed their code since I last checked. Sorry for the inconvenience ): You can test here how it was supposed to work. Those videos are still saved. On Windows7 the location is: C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Temp You can drag and drop the saved .tmp files direct into SMPlayer (MPlayer) or rename them to .mp4 and open them with the player of your choice.
I truly don't comprehend it. There are apparently people out there who don't care that their computer doesn't do exactly what they want. Or people who don't care that they have to click twice as much to reach a function even though a computer's purpose is increasing efficiency. Simply put, the computer serves me, not I the computer. (By extension, my data belongs to me, not to some server in the great blue yonder.)
Let me give you an example: There is an app which permits you to make selectively file associations. What if the user doesn't know which file extension stands for what. He could of course look them up first and decide afterwards what to associate and what not, according to his needs but he doesn't. He checks them all to make sure 'everything will work'. Even the fact that he is offered a choice might confuse him. You may say that I'm exagerating. Take a look at Google Chrome. Does it work for its user base exactly as they want? For sure it does. They can view content with it and that's exactly the only thing they want As I said, dumbing down is an easy game. Unfortunately with this dumbing down-philosophy even users interested and willing to learn will be affected.
Regarding your point 1, I always wonder how a user can become more advanced if everything's hidden.
You hit the nail. That's also the main reason for designing software to become more and more obscure. The dumbing down process is then advertised as innovation and modern design. No wonder that average users are more clueless today as they were 15 years ago. The more clueless the user the better you can squeeze him. On the other side, most users simply don't care. All they want is to be connected to the internet. So dumbing down is an easy game.
Although I'm not convinced the default browser check option is ever appropriate by default, but that aside.
It isn't IMO.
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My problem is when they take it one step further and remove the possibility for explicitly user-initiated action. There's a reason they come with an "associate a dozen file types and several protocols" button in the first place.
I see and agree. However they can't stop the advanced user from making the associations from OS level, leaving their button untouched. As for the average user, he will be glad to have a button he can click on.
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On properly written applications you can also select which of the dozen supported filetypes you wish to associate with the application in question.
If you have Windows at hand, go ahead and give Java updates a shot.
I have Windows at hand but without Java. I went to Oracles download page and I havn't seen any option in their JRE installer as described by bcbear86. That's why I asked him to provide the link where his daughter has updated from. However the whole story is weird because of more than one reason. - Opera abruptly privatized the thread. On the other hand - If Opera indeed uses such scams to propagate their browser, bcbear86 can't be the only person affected. I couldn't find (as yet) any references to such practices of Opera on the net.
Furthermore bcbear86 claims that Chropera messed up his .torrent file association. Does Chropera have support for torrent?
That's a severe defect of the "portable" philosophy. A truly portable program would allow me to lift it up, plant it wherever I like, and then allow me to use its "make this the default for…" function (if available). Instead "portable" programs tend to gray that out, so you have to use workarounds.
It depends on how one defines "portable". The interpretation I grew up with: All files in one Folder/subfolder(s) which you can put wherever you want and no traces in Windows' registry. Therefore "portable" is not the recommended option for average users. Advanced users will be able to make the file associations they want on their own. I agree that the ideal way is to make options for file associations even in portable software, associations the user can also easily delete if he wants to. However the above is not a mandatory requirement for portable software IMO.
Under no circumstances should portable software leave any trace in Windows' registry without user approval. That's my understanding of "portable" at least. As an example, none of Mark Russinovich's utilities is portable even though you don't have to run an installer.
I assume then that you are utterly uninterested about Chropera's possible arrival to Linux.
As it looks for now Chropera isn't an option for me. Wonder if it ever will be. I have downloaded and tested Chropera 15 beta for ten minutes (cold - no internet connection). That was my only experience with Chropera and my curiosity got healed for a year at least. So far about the new Blink shell. What's worst, Opera ASA has lost my respect and trust. The damage control spin on the (old) Dektop Team Blog was simply disgusting. I hate double-tongued speach and lies. It's even worse than the crap they try to defend.
The only thing I enjoyed was the fact that they designed and released their new Chropera without bookmarks. If stupidity would hurt then the noise at Opera labs would be infernal. Rewriting the code several times must be very funny
Yes. However it was a short test with StartPage. Less results if any, depending on how exotic your search terms are. I've tried most search engines I've heared about in the hope that I can replace Google. Hate to say it but no chance. At least not for me. Scroogle was (untill they have been forced by Google to shut down) the only search which came close to Google (they also retrieved the answers from Google) but with one big drawback. Namely, they didn't retrieve Google's cached items. So my default search engine is Google. No scripting and no cookies during my searches (and not only during searches but most of the time) Besides, I have a dynamic IP.
As a side note I searched once for some Russian related items and thought Yandex would offer the better results. Since I don't speak Russian I had to look up for the correct Russian spelling before I fired up Yandex. Fail. Yandex gave me less usable results in Russian than Google did in English.
The nonsense I'm spreading is from support mozilla: Adding search engines. BTW, you didn't answer my question. Is any easy way to add your custom search engines except making your own .xml or downloading a plugin?
My last OPERA experience was v10.63.....I decided to switch to FireFox because I didn't like using menus...I wanted to use buttons...Custom Buttons is a breeze with FireFox (for what I want anyway), & I found customization much more user friendly in FireFox.
Let me know which Firefox you are talking about For some buttons I'm using in Opera 12 I had to download two extensions for Firefox! You need extensions for search engines and for mouse gestures, to name just two of the very basics Also both inferior to what Opera 12 offers by default.
On the subject of Opera itself, or rather Chopera, I've heard criticisms of it although nothing too specific except the Bookmark business (which is a killer for me) but I'd like to have a look.
Bookmarks is just the tip of the iceberg that any subaverage user will notice Unlike other things they will return someday.
I presume one can just download and install it and get a new installation but the old Opera installation will remain untouched - any cautionary advice on that?
Yes, your old Opera installation will remain untouched.
