Try Opera

[celebrian23]

You know, I decided randomly to install opera today (I'm a firefox user) and I really like it. I'm quite impressed. I don't see opera mentioned as much as camino, safari, and firefox. It was super easy to import my bookmarks. I think I'll see which I prefer after a couple of weeks.

 

[velocityg4]

The only problem I have with Opera is that the search bar is all screwy on some of the sites I go to. When I type text in the search bar at some sites the bottom of all my letters get cut off. Other than that Opera is very fast.

 

[EricNau]

I thought Opera was slow.

 

[Bobdude161]

oh wow, I used Opera when I was back in Classic. I completely forgot about it since then, but it sure is fast. What's this? Did I just replace my Safari icon on my dock with Opera? Weird...

 

[eXan]

I liked Opera back when I had OS9, but now I prefer Safari, because I like the bookmarts managment system, fast loading times, lightweightness, integration into the OS, etc etc

 

[bloodycape]

For some odd reason I rather use i firefox on my Apple systems while on my pc I am a diehard Opera fan and will use it on every site it supports. hmm maybe i should try it again. Does anyone know how to import opera setting from a pc to opera for apple? Thank you

 

[eXan]

For some odd reason I rather use i firefox on my Apple systems while on my pc I am a diehard Opera fan and will use it on every site it supports. hmm maybe i should try it again. Does anyone know how to import opera setting from a pc to opera for apple? Thank you

I do not agree with your signature...

 

[Hobodale]

I have been trying to use opera the last couple days and for the most part I like it(its a lot faster than Safari) but the thing I dont like is the fact that I cant have a bookmarks bar like in safari, firefox, etc.. Is there a way to make a bookmarks bar? I really like the browser but I dont want to use it simply because of that.

 

[pulsewidth947]

Does anyone know how to import opera setting from a pc to opera for apple? Thank you

There'll be a file on your PC called Opera6.adr which will contain all your bookmarks. You can probably transfer that to your Mac quite easily. Maybe

I used Opera all the time on the PC, by far the quickest and fully featured browser at the time. Now I've ditched both PCs and Opera, I've become quite reliant on Firefox now. It may be a tad slower but I think its pretty on the Mac, and I cant live without Extensions now!

 

[x86isslow]

Firefox <snip> pretty on the Mac

I never thought I'd see the day when someone would use pretty to describe Firefox as "pretty"- especially the Mac version!

 

[jive]

You can have themes for FF. Mine makes Safari look ugly.

 

[celebrian23]

I think firefox is quite lovely on the mac too

 

[gloss]

I have been trying to use opera the last couple days and for the most part I like it(its a lot faster than Safari) but the thing I dont like is the fact that I cant have a bookmarks bar like in safari, firefox, etc.. Is there a way to make a bookmarks bar? I really like the browser but I dont want to use it simply because of that.

I got pissed about that too, but I figured it out.

Go to the Tools menu, select 'Appearance'. Go to 'Toolbars', and make sure 'Personal Bar' is activated. You'll see a couple of search bars appear above the main web address area. Right click them to get rid of them, and you should be left with a blank space. Now, from the Bookmark Manager, you should be able to drag all your bookmarks to that blank space.

Just like Firefox, but above the address bar rather than below.

 

[dmw007]

I liked Opera back when I had OS9, but now I prefer Safari, because I like the bookmarts managment system, fast loading times, lightweightness, integration into the OS, etc etc

Same here- I love using Safari (most of the time anyway).

 

[baleensavage]

I've been hearing good things about the new version of Opera. I used to use Opera before there was a Safari and the only other options for OS X were IE or Netscape. Opera was pretty terrible back then (though so were the other Mac browsers) Then I discovered Mozilla, which worked better than the others but was slower than death. Now I use FireFox and Safari depending on what I am doing. Maybe I'll give Opera another try...though that stupid ad thing was really annoying.