the regular opera thread

[Asher]

Questions:

• How do I click a link and have it open in a new background tab? CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER is patently ridiculous -- no thanks. In Mozilla I'd hold CTRL and click.
  
• How to I get "link button" things up in the toolbar like I can in IE and Mozilla?
  
• How do I make the status bar stop auto-hiding and stay visible all the time at the bottom?
  
• Why can't you mass-delete favorites?
  
• Is there any way for it not to show the tab-bar if there's only one tab? Like Mozilla.
  
• How do I prevent the atrocious behavior where it resizes the image placeholders with the ALT text before the image loads?
  

[Zopperoni]

1) You can use the default mouse gesture for that, which is: "move mouse pointer to link and hold right button, move down then up". In Opera 7, you can edit the mouse gestures to whatever is more comfortable to you.

2) I don't know.

3) View > Status bar > Bottom

4) You can: Hotlist > Bookmarks > use CTRL or SHIFT to select multiple bookmarks and then DEL =)

5+6) I don't know.

[Asher]

1) Thanks
3) I've already got it set to Bottom, the problem is after the page is done it disappears. I find its disappeance/reappearance distracting and want it up all the time, is this possible?

It seems like a nice browser but even Mozilla has some one-ups on it as I've listed here. Maybe Opera 8 will be good.

[Japher]

Where did Boris go? I thought of all ppl at least he would help me with this threadjack

Is Opera a webpage design program? or what?

[Zopperoni]

Opera is a browser program. This is the official website: www.opera.com

Try it out, you might like it.

Originally posted by Asher
3) I've already got it set to Bottom, the problem is after the page is done it disappears. I find its disappeance/reappearance distracting and want it up all the time, is this possible?

O, you mean the bar that shows all the info like images, percent loaded, time et cetera?
Then I wouldn't know, it has never bothered me.

[st_swithin]

I hear Pavarotti's gone missing.

[JCG]

"Disable Copy and Cut menu entries for edit fields that contain a password (the Copy and Cut handling itself was already disabled)"



Guess I'll pass...

[VetLegion]

How to I get "link button" things up in the toolbar like I can in IE and Mozilla?

I have a few but I am not sure how I made them. I think you can simply drag a tab and drop it on the toolbar. Voila!

[Asher]

I needed to turn on the Personal bar.

I wish I could put it on the same line as other toolbars, like I can in IE.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Japher
I liked Don Giovanni and Le Nosse de Figaro... and we all know Wagner rocks!

"Nozze," not "Nosse."

He'll bash Mozart, or at least say that his Operas weren't the best

Bash Mozart? Hardly! Don Giovanni is certainly among the top ten operas. But no, Mozart's operas aren't the best. Even the greatest is limited a bit by contemporary conventions and a lack of full-blown emotional musical expression. Got to go to the Romantic Era for that. Carmen runs rings around any Mozart opera, dramatically speaking.

No he won't, he'll bash Wagner, thus showing himself up to be the musical and philosophical peasant he really is.

I haven't criticized Wagner unfairly, as you yourself have admitted (and unlike your ignorant, stereotyped critiques of Brahms and Bruckner. Funny you say "peasant" here, but accused me of stodgy elitism for liking Brahms. Does your philosophical aristocraticness allow for such inconsistency?). I've just been honest and fair in assessing his music, unlike someone who puts him on a pedestal and drools at his feet. Wagner produced some magnificent stuff, like the Ring and Tristan, and he also produced absolute tripe, like Parsifal. When his incredible ego and sense of self-importance (hmm, no wonder you love him so much... ) wasn't getting in the way, he produced great things. When it was, he wrote boring, sanctimonious drivel. I'd challenge anyone here to stay awake during Die Meistersinger von Nuremburg. It's better than Sominex.

I don't hate Wagner at all, but I don't think he's god's gift to music, either. Too bad he never wrote symphonic music, what a waste of potential.

Where did Boris go? I thought of all ppl at least he would help me with this threadjack

I was in the process of moving, so now am back and all connected again. Yay!

[molly bloom]

I'm very partial to 'the Threepenny Opera'.

I once had to sit through an opera written in classical Greek, except for when Dionysus appeared, and to represent his 'Eastern' origins, he sang in English. It was a very trying evening.

[Sarxis]

I've been meaning to see Don Giovanni for years. Probably just a rental.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba
I've been meaning to see Don Giovanni for years. Probably just a rental.

Avoid the film version with Ruggerio Raimondi. Terrible.

There's a DVD available of a staged performance with Cesare Siepi in the title role, arguably the greatest Don Giovanni of the 20th Century (he and Ezio Pinza are the only real contenders, IMO). Plus, it's Wilhelm Furtwangler conducting (c. 1950 performance, but still in color).

[Sarxis]

Thanx Boris.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov

Bash Mozart? Hardly! Don Giovanni is certainly among the top ten operas. But no, Mozart's operas aren't the best. Even the greatest is limited a bit by contemporary conventions and a lack of full-blown emotional musical expression. Got to go to the Romantic Era for that. Carmen runs rings around any Mozart opera, dramatically speaking.

Carmen? Gauche and boring.

I haven't criticized Wagner unfairly, as you yourself have admitted (and unlike your ignorant, stereotyped critiques of Brahms and Bruckner.

You haven't criticised Wagner at all. At least no criticisms of substance.

Funny you say "peasant" here, but accused me of stodgy elitism for liking Brahms.

I'd never accuse anyone of elitism for liking Brahms.

Does your philosophical aristocraticness allow for such inconsistency?). I've just been honest and fair in assessing his music, unlike someone who puts him on a pedestal and drools at his feet. Wagner produced some magnificent stuff, like the Ring and Tristan, and he also produced absolute tripe, like Parsifal.

Agreed on Parsifal. I don't put Wagner on a pedestal, he was a horrible man. But Tristan is IMHO the greatest opera ever composed.

When his incredible ego and sense of self-importance (hmm, no wonder you love him so much...

Look who's talking now.

I don't hate Wagner at all, but I don't think he's god's gift to music, either. Too bad he never wrote symphonic music, what a waste of potential.

At least there's agreement there.