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'Welcome' to Opera Software! This is an autoresponder document. It has been set up to provide you with tips and tricks regarding the use of Opera, and to get you off to a successful start. More ideas can be found on our website and particularly on our news server at news://news.opera.no Please note: your email to this address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WILL NOT be answered by us as it does not go to a human but is merely meant to inform you of issues, technical topics and contact addresses. Please use the other email addresses or forms if you would like to communicate or if you have other problems. This document doesn't address all issues pertaining Opera. If you have any problems or queries, we would really appreciate your feedback. But before you send in a bug report, be sure to have consulted both the support section on our website (updated frequently!), http://www.opera.com/support.htm as well as the Opera help section. This will free us from answering standard questions. Commercial multi-licence deals ------------------------------ If you are thinking of using Opera for commercial (CD-ROM, Info kiosk, Intranet, ISP) purposes, we have an enquiry form for you at http://www.opera.com/enquiry.html . Please use that form to detail your ideas about the use of Opera in your specific environment. We will then be able to provide you with a tailor-made package that will suit your and your company's individual needs. Button and Banner ----------------- If you would like to support us by adding a button or banner to your home page, please refer to http://www.opera.com/banner.html Newsgroup --------- For even better interaction with us and fellow Opera users, we recommend you visiting our newsserver at: news://news.opera.no Many Opera users from near and far exchange ideas, tips and tricks, and we would like to welcome you there, too. In order to post messages to the forums, you will have to change your news server to 'news.opera.no' as it is not a public USENET newsgroup. Download/News ------------- For the latest news and version updates/upgrades please refer to: http://www.opera.com/news.html and http://www.opera.com/download.html Keyboard Navigation ------------------- If you have keyboard or navigation problems, please refer to: http://www.opera.com/keyboard.html for shortcuts and ways of using Opera more efficiently -- or read the program help. Press ----- If you are from the press and would like to write about Opera, we have a press kit available at: http://www.opera.com/press.html Further down we have direct email and telephone addresses you may use. General ------- On our website at http://www.opera.com you will also find the following pages which might help you: forum.html - to access the various newsgroups on our server commercial.html - for ISPs, CD-ROM publishers, kiosk developers bugreport.html - for 'Phantoms of the Opera' ;-) press.html - for press information alt_os.html - for 'Opera Winfree' (OS/2, Mac, Linux...) questionnaire.html - for customer feedback register.html - for online registrations and prices reseller.html - for info on local resellers download.html - for downloading the latest version support.htm - for technical (product) support banner.html - for placing an Opera button/banner on your site mailinglist.html - for un/subscribing to our one-way mailing list plug_in.html - for info and links to programs that work with Opera Below, please find more information that might help you. Please keep this document handy for future references. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. We are looking forward to serving you in the future. The Opera Software Support Team === CONTACT INFORMATION ======================================= Postal address: Opera Software Waldemar Thranesgt. 86b 0175 Oslo Norway Telephone: +47 23 23 48 68 Fax: +47 23 23 48 70 Opera USA ---------- Phone : (+1) 216 229 4382 Fax: (+1) 216 795 0197 (Call first) Opera South Africa ------------------ Telephone : +27 21 794 3414 == GENERAL (INSTALLATION / USE ) QUESTIONS ====================== About testing Opera... Opera is not for free. You may evaluate it for 30 user days, as opposed to calendar days, but after this, you will need to register Opera for US$35 (normal single licence price). The registration code you then receive will remove the time lock from Opera. For the test period, don't fill in any fields, but click on 'Evaluate' right away. After Opera expired, you can no longer access sites other than Opera Software's own. My download is corrupt. What can I do? Please make sure your proxy is turned off, the corrupted download deleted, and please try to download it from another site. There is no problem with the files as such, as they all stem from one source. Install message "System DLLs corrupt or missing". This usually happens when system files are bad or if the temp directory isn't setup correctly. The files you would want to take a look at is the VER.DLL and DDEML.DLL, also look at the autoexec.bat file to make sure the environment variable TEMP is referenced correctly. Opera cannot connect to the web. What's wrong? Windows uses a communications module (winsock) to accomplish Internet connections. This file is either called winsock.dll (16bit) or wsock32.dll (32bit). It should exist ONLY ONCE, and ONCE ONLY! If you use Win 3.1x, make sure you only have this one copy of winsock.dll on your disk (usually the one that came with the dialer) and make sure it is in the path statement of your AUTOEXEC.BAT. Rename or delete all other winsock.dll copies from your computer. Once you have followed these steps, you should NOT have any more problems, because a) Windows knows where to find the module, and there are no conflicts with other winsock.dll's on your disk. I am using the new Winsock 2 update. Opera stopped working. What now? You have to enable 'Synchronous DNS' in your 'Advanced Preferences'. That will make Opera work again. How can I make Opera work with AOL? Install Opera in/underneath the AOL directory or wherever AOL's winsock.dll or wsock32.dll is placed. or Rename all winsock.dll and wsock32.dll that are not in use and make sure the AOL directory is in the path in autoexec.bat. You also have to make sure that you use either the 32bit version of AOL and Opera or the 16bit version, but not the 16bit of AOL and the 32bit of Opera. That will NOT work. How can I get Opera to open my dialer and connect to my ISP? Opera will look for and load the closest winsock DLL. This will most often start the dialer. Problems can arise on machines with multiple winsocks (this is a general problem for all browsers). We do not have our own dial-up program, but we are continuously scanning the market for options. My registration code is not accepted when I enter it. Try to copy (Ctrl + C) and paste (Ctrl + V) the code rather than enter it manually. That should work just fine. Please WRITE DOWN your registration code and save it somewhere -- as it makes things so much easier for us and you in case your PC crashes. Lost code: If you have lost your code, you can send a mail to our Registration Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Put LOST KEY in the subject line and ask them to re-send it to you. Once again, write this number down somewhere! When do I know that I qualify for the discount? Simple answer: when you don't have $35 to pay for Opera. The discount is for those who cannot afford it, and not automatically for everyone in the educational sector. It's a help/assitance from us, and not a right, so if you can afford it, your question has been answered. Also remember that the more income we have, the more we can put into the program and into support. Opera opens with three empty windows. Nothing happens after that. You have to be online, because Opera attempts to connect to its home page upon first startup. You can later close these windows and save these or your personal settings for the next launch. == OPERATIONAL QUESTIONS ======================================== I have lost my menu bar? How do I get it back? Hold down the CTRL key while pressing F11. Opera made itself my default browser. How do I change it to another browser? Usually from the browser you want to make default. Both IE and NS defaults to display a dialog at startup when the .htm, .html, and http associations points to another browser. However they both offers an option in this dialog to hide the dialog in the feature. To enable this dialog in NS 3.x goto the registry key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Netscape\Netscape Navigator\Main" and set the value key "Ignore DefCheck" to "no". To enable this dialog in IE 3.x goto the registry key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main" and set the value key "Check_Associations" to "yes" Another option is to use the "Explorer->View->Options->File Types" dialog. Whenever I submit a form, Opera warns me that this form is sent non-encrypted. Can I disable that warning? Yes. Preference/Security/Show an Alert before... - DISABLE it. No matter what I try, I can't get the main window to open to a full-screen view. Whatever I access comes up as a half-screen with horizontal scrolling neccesary to read it all. Go to 'Preferences/Generic' and turn 'Automatic window tiling' ON. Is there any way to transfer my cookie file from Netscape to Opera? No. It's a different format, but we may support this at a later stage. Is there some way I can open Opera without getting the Opera Home page? I know where to find it when I want it but it takes up time loading when I do not want it. Preferences/Generic/Start -> Saved windows and history. If you want to get rid of the windows, close them all and save the window settings (Preferences/Save Window Settings....) My Bridge version (software for blind) doesn't support a configuration for Opera. Have you same advice for blinds? There are some settings under Preferences/Hotlist (v3.0) that allow you to tune Opera into screenreaders, or make Opera more suitable to use with screen readers. Also under Prefs/Fonts and Background you can ENABLE 'Invert Marked Text', so that the screen reader picks it up when you navigate via E and D keys. Whenever I try to access a URL I get en error message saying, "Could not find PROXY server". Do you have any suggestions as to how I might get Opera working? Turn the proxy off if you can. Also, Opera doesn't support automatic proxy configuration (APC) at the moment, but you can check the .APC file and take the real proxy server from that file. When I choose "Help" the helpfile viewer comes up with "illegal address" in an alert box. Check to see if your help files are in \Opera\help Check in opera.ini if there are spaces in the HELP DIRECTORY string Remove them if necessary: C:\Program Files\Opera\Help Should look like this: C:\ProgramFiles\Opera\Help I cannot download from a specific download site. Please tell us the URL of that site and we will investigate. Try another download site in the meantime. My page counter doesn't work with Opera. It shows 888.888. It's the "Referrer" setting (Preferences, Advanced). If you set referrer "unchecked," the CGI counter will not work. With the box "checked," counter displays fine ... NOT "checked," 888,888 is the display. I cannot get my IntelliMouse work with Opera. What now? Microsoft has released a new driver, you can get it and more info here: http://www.microsoft.com/intellipoint/ Opera will include support for the scrolling mouse in version 3.5, which in now in beta stages. Do Opera and other browsers co-exist on my harddisk? Yes. Opera is just like another application. You can use it without any problems with MSIE and/or Netscape. Can I make Opera even faster? A user writes: Speed Tuning! In Opera: Size of Network Buffer: 16K In System.ini: For 28.8 & higher modems with 16550 UART: [386Enh] COM2Buffer=16384 COM2FIFO=1 These setting came from my Boca Rep - for 16550 UARTs the COM Buffer should be increased or it slows down the Modem (my com port is 2). With Opera's Network Buffer set to the same size, the transfer is very fast. Also, should add I'm using Helix Hurricane's Ram Drive set @ 8K as my cache - keeps the disk drive from trashing - only danger is when Opera fills up the 8K you get a "Cannot write to Drive" error!!!! Just hit the IGNORE button until the page is written, then empty the cache! What about multi-byte code support for other language sets, ie Japanese, Russian, etc? Opera does not "understand" the character encoding needed to automatically switch between and show some character sets for languages such as Russian, Polish, Greek, Hebrew, nor does it render the multi-byte characters of Japanese, and Chinese. You can use Opera to view these characters sets in this manner: Go to Opera's 'Preferences/Document Appearance' and select a Font that will support the language which you want to view. You will have to make this selection for each type of text listed in the "Font and Background" selection area (if you want all the type sizes on the page to be in the same encoding). Make sure to select the proper "Script" setting in the lower right corner of the "Font" dialog box. For example, some web pages are written using Kyrillic CP1251, and some are written using KOI8-R... so you will need a font for each of these encodings to view Russian web pages. And you will have to manually change Opera's Fonts under "Document appearance" every time you come across a page with a different encoding. Alternately, since changing all of the text types is a big chore, you can create additional .INI files for Opera, and save them under different names. Then create shortcuts to the Opera program that point to your new .INI settings files, so that when you open Opera, Opera uses these chosen settings. To do this, open Opera, go to 'Preferences/Document Appearance'. In the "Font and Background" selection area, set all the Font choices to enable the language of you choice. (change all the selections from "Normal" through "Forms button text") Click OK. Then, make a copy of the file named OPERA.INI and save it under another name, for example RUSSIAN.INI (OPERA.INI will be found in your \Windows directory. You can use Windows Explorer or File Manager to find OPERA.INI). Now, create a new shortcut to Opera on the desktop or in the Start menu. Make sure that the file path to the executable program (also called the command line) is enclosed in quotes, and add the file path to your new .INI file to the end of the Command line. For example: "C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe" C:\windows\Russian.ini There will still only be one Opera program on your computer... It will simply have different settings when you start it with the alternative shortcuts. Opera does handle Hebrew. Here is some additional information: http://www.pickeringonline.com/hanadari/tutorials/WebHebrew/webd0.htm Opera does support Japanese on Windows OS/2 and Win 3.x using Alan Barbour's instructions: http://userzweb.lightspeed.net/~abarbour/os2cjk.htm I can't get Opera to load an HTML document when I click on OPEN in Explorer? Go to Explorer/View/Options. Click on File Types Move down in the list until you hit 'html' or 'htm' or both Click on Edit Under 'Actions' it should say 'open'. If not add it by clicking on 'New' Under 'Application used to perform action' select Opera with the complete path (ie. E:\Net_Apps\OPERA\Opera.exe) ENABLE DDE Enter in DDE message 'open %1' without the marks Click on OK Click on Close Click on Close Now Explorer will load Opera, open the document, and do the same for subsequent documents you want to open via Explorer. How can I decode binary attachments from the newsgroup using Opera? From 3.0 beta 9b onwards, Opera can decode binary attachments from newsgroups. What are SOCKS and does Opera support it? SOCKS is used to go securely through a firewall with authentication. Some Winsock implementations (like OnNet 4.0 from FTP software) lets an application use SOCKS transparantly. Others may not do so, and requires the application to explicitly use the SOCKS interface. Opera will include support for SOCKS in a future version. == OPERA AND OTHER APPLICATIONS ================================== I can't get Opera to work with RealAudio. Any advice? Most Opera users find success by following the instructions on either of the following Real.com sites: http://service.real.com/solutions/RAP00836.HTM or http://service.real.com/help/faq/pp5cfg.html There is also an explanation on our support site. How can I link MS Internet Mail from Opera? C:\WIN95\EXPLORER.EXE /root,C:\WIN95\Internet Mail.{89292102-4755-11cf-9DC2-00AA006C2B84} Use your own directory settings, and let us know if it works, please. Henri Karrenfeld wrote: Assume your mail program is MAPI compliant, (ahem, and you use Windows95, of course, else the following will make very little sense, I guess), try this at the 'external mail application' in the mail preferences: C:\WINDOWS\Rundll32.exe url.dll,MailToProtocolHandler (Assuming you have Win95 installed in C:\WINDOWS). This doesn't work with me for starting Eudora Pro 3.05 via MAPI, however, but since you want to use M$ Internet Mail, (that's M$ Exchange, right?) this should be no problem. (Actually Eudora doesn't want to start up at all when an email address is specified, even started by clicking an icon, so I'll assume here my problem is caused by Eudora, not Opera). Does Opera support DDE calls from another application to navigate to a URL? Yes, it does. Method: Request Topic: WWW_OpenURL Message: "%1" (or the actual URL) App name: Opera I cannot get my plugins to work with Opera. Remember that not ALL available plugins are working with Opera, but Shockwave Flash, RealAudio, Quicktime, Crescendo, VDO-Player do work. See http://www.operasoftware.com/plug_in.html for a list of "plug-ins" that work with Opera. The following page explains in detail how to get other applications, including mail clients and several plug-ins, working with Opera: http://www.operasoftware.com/support/config.htm == CONFIGURATION QUESTIONS ======================================= How can I set my cache directory in Opera? Close Opera. Open OPERA.INI (usually in C:\Windows) Under [USER PREFS], add: CACHE DIRECTORY=C:\My_cache_directory (or whatever it may be) I like the adjustable cache feature, since I have 32MB of RAM, what would be the optimum RAM cache for docs & images? I have my RAM cache at around 5MB, but you need to find what's the best for you. Unless you surf a lot on the same site, a smaller RAM cache is better, but it's entirely up to you. The disk cache shouldn't exceed 5MB - otherwise the startup gets very slow. Is there a way to see which places I have been into in the Internet? In other words, is there a HISTORY command or something like that?? Window/Special Window/History gives you access to the places where you have been. You can change the number of entries via Preferences/General/Global History. There you can also turn off that option. How can I open a window in the background? Make sure 'Auto Tile' is off (Pref/Generic). Then press SHFIT+CTRL, and only THEN move with the mouse pointer onto the link and click. Now the new window will be opened in the background without resizing the current document window. How do I configure my proxy settings? You will have to consult with your system provider/administrator to get proper settings. Then you can configure your proxy settings in Opera. Examples of the syntax: (use your own numbers, these are fictional) Put http://proxy.myproxy.com:8080 or 111.0.0.1:8080 in each of the protocol boxes that you wish to use (and check the box in front). That is: HTTP : for HTTP servers (ordinary web documents) HTTPS : for secure documents (use ONLY if you are behind a firewall) FTP : for FTP files Gopher : Always needed if you want access gopher servers Wais : Always needed if you want to access wais servers The No Proxy field can be used to specify which HTTP servers should be accessed directly because they are so close that the proxy would be a bottleneck even if it had the document stored locally. My menu bar disappeared, and I cannot get it back! You can toggle the menu bar by holding down the CTRL key while pressing F11. If that doesn't work, shut down Opera, and edit OPERA.INI in the \WINDOWS directory. Under [USER PREFS] you will find a line that says... SHOW MENU=0 Make that... SHOW MENU=1 Save the file, and restart Opera. Voila! You can also select whether Opera starts with or without menus in the generic preferences dialogue box. The menu setting will also be saved when you save the window settings. I would like to use Opera for offline browsing. Opera is not an offline browser, but we have built in a special feature that lets you browse pages in your cache offline with ease and WITHOUT any of the other add-on products. Go to Preferences/Cache and set ALL 'Check Modified' options to 'NEVER'. This way you can surf through the cache with all images intact. Third party cache explorers like Secret Agent and Francois Crevola's 'About my Cache' work fine. == BOOKMARK QUESTIONS =========================================== How do I open/close the docked hotlist window? There are 4 different ways that will "toggle" the Hotlist: View/Hotlist Hold down Ctrl and press F2 Shift-F7 (open only) Hold down Ctrl and click on the hotlist icon in the tool bar. How can I use/import my Netscape/Explorer bookmarks? With version 3.x, Opera can import both MSIE and Netscape bookmarks, even merge them with your existing Opera hotlist. There's another, 'memorialware' product for merging all sorts of bookmark merging and sorting: Columbine Bookmark Merge, from Gary Cramblitt. You can find at http://www.clark.net/pub/garyc. Another tool is PowerMarks. PowerMarks recognizes Opera and the new version has support for the Opera 3.x Hot Lists, as well as NS's bookmarks and IE's favorites. http://www.kaylon.com/power.html How do I add bookmarks? First of all, please use the latest version of Opera with the new hotlist. Bookmarks can be added by pressing Ctrl-T. The active hotlist is always the current one, and vice versa. Bookmarks can be edited by using the standard Windows editing shortcuts (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Del) The hotlist has a comprehensive right-click menu, too. There you will find all options available. Other than hotlist, is there anyway to quickly get to places visited in current session? Yes. Press H for history, or look in your cache. == GENERAL ISSUES ============================================== Viewing webpages: Often, when a page is not displayed properly, it's because the author used tags that are not part of the HTML 3.2 standard, which Opera supports. See this page on our support site online: http://www.operasoftware.com/support/misc.htm for further explanation. There is a forum for discussion regarding page display problems on our newsgroups: news://opera.nta.no/opera.page-display If you would like to report problems with Opera that you feel are not HTML-related please go to: http://www.operasoftware.com/bugreport.html and fill in the form. We will be able to investigate these problems, and fix them if necessary in the next version of Opera. This is not the address for getting technical support help. See our support site online for more info, and an address where you can request help for specific problems that are not addressed on the support site: http://www.operasoftware.com/support.htm I would like to buy stock/shares in Opera. How can I do this? Opera is not a public company. If we decide to go public, we hope to do this in a manner different to what is known today. If you would like to support Opera, you are more than welcome to pay more than the $35 we are asking for it. The more funds we have, the more we can do to improve Opera and the support of the product. Also, the company laws in Norway are rather different to the ones in the US, so for the time being there is no public placement planned. Opera will continue to remain a private company, although the requests have been numerous. However, we don't think it's a good idea at this particular stage. How did you manage to make Opera so fast? Opera is written from scratch and is not based on the code of Mosaic or any other browser. We have not made use of any C++ libraries that might slow things down. Opera can run independently under Windows 3.1 and does not require Win32s. Could you give more details about the Speech Reader compatibility? There is an entry in Preferences called 'hotlist'. If you enable the bottom option, the hotlist menu is shown without the folder icons, making it more screenreader friendly. Also, the keys E and D jump from element to element that the screenreader can identify. Also, under Preferences/Font and Background you can ENABLE 'INVERT MARKED TEXT', making it easy for the screenreader to identify the text it should read. Some other issues: Opera should have no problems dealing with the year 2000 (Y2K) + We have not yet run extensive tests for it, but the only possible problems that we can forsee are those instances where you may be using Opera to access a remote server or scripts that do have Y2k difficulties. In that case they may appear as problems simply because Opera is the "portal". Netscape and Opera do not handle tables the same way. If there is not enough room for inner tables, Opera will expand the outer tables while Netscape will put text on top of images. Hotfiles.com is a prime example of bad HTML. NetObject and FrontPage created HTML documents also do NOT adhere to the HTML Standard and often display incorrectly with Opera. The same is true for Internet Assistant in Word97. The different startup settings use different .INI files when you load Opera. Functionality is the same. There are no differences between the 32bit and the 16bit versions of Opera. If you use Windows 95, we suggest you use the built-in Dial-up Networking to connect to your ISP -- if that is possible, that is. Opera reads newsgroups only *online*. There's no way of offline reading other than from the cache. There's currently no way of specifying an external newsreader. Opera doesn't yet include a dialer, but we would like to include one with the 16 bit version. == FEATURE QUESTIONS ============================================ Does Opera 3.21 support Java? No. Java is working with Opera 3.5 which is still in beta stages. Versions 3.x do support Javascript, though, which is different from Java. Java support in Opera 3.5 (betas): The Sun Java plug-in can be used with Opera 3.50. This plug-in is a 32 bit application, so if you use Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT4.0 you will be able to view Java in Opera with the aid of this plug-in. You can download the Sun Java plug-in here: http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/download/windows.html Download the Java plug-in and install it as directed by Sun's installation program. You can install it to the default directory, (which is C:\Program Files\Java Plug-in 1.1) or install it to another directory of your choice, but DO NOT install the Java plug-in into the Opera plug-ins directory. After you have installed the plug-in, you will need to copy the file named, NPJava32.dll from this directory: \Java plug-in\bin to the \Opera\plugins directory. (See ** below for addtional instructions on doing this, if you need them.) Lastly, you can either: 1) Re-start Opera 2) If you already have Opera open, you can go to Opera's 'Preferences/Associate' and click "Find Plug-ins". Click OK. You will now have Java support in Opera. If you use Windows 3.1x / NT 3.51/Win32s, you will not be able to use this plug-in with Opera. Sun is reportedly working on a 16 bit version, though. ** If you are not sure how to copy NPJava32.dll over, go to the Windows Start menu and open the program called Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer). Scroll down the left column until you find the directory named Java Plug-in 1.1 Double-click on it, and it will expand to show you more folders. Double-click on the bin folder. In the right column of Windows Explorer you will see the list of files in that folder. Right-mouse-click on NPJava32.dll and select "Copy" from the menu that pops up. Now, go back to the left column of Windows Explorer and find your Opera directory. Double-click on it, and it will expand to show you the folders within. Double-click on the Plugins folder. That will show you the contents in the right column once again. Move your mouse into the right column, then right-mouse click. Select "Paste" from the pop-up menu. You will see NPJava32.dll drop into this field. That's it. Re-start Opera, and you will now have Java support. [Alternately, for those who like quick fixes and are comfortable with editing files. You may open opera.ini and add the file path to the Java plug-in onto the Opera plug-in path. PLUGIN PATH=C:\Program Files\Opera\plugins;C:\Program Files\Java Plugin 1.1\bin\ Edit your file paths if necessary to point to the proper places on your drive-- this one is the default path.] What about ActiveX? ActiveX is not currently being considered for development within Opera. What about Email/Addressbook? A full Email client is being worked on as we speak. It is planned to be available in version 4.0 I posted some mail to my friend. How can i check whether the mail has been posted. Where is the icons for mail box? Opera stores all outgoing mail in a file of your choice if you so prefer, but you cannot check if it has been sent successfully. Opera only displays a message when it has sent the message - no 'late' check possible. There are no icons for a mailbox because you cannot receive mail with Opera - as pointed out in detail in the help files. Can I upload files with Opera? Although this is not possible with versions 3.x and earlier, it will be possible in Opera 3.5. Can I send a page/link to someone like Netscape does? No. This is not implemented at the moment. How can I open another window for viewing or downloading? Just 'shift-click' on a link rather than 'click'. Or select the "blank page" icon at the far left of the toolbar. Opera 3.21 Program Specifications ========================= 128 bit encryption: Yes - included. SSL (Secure Socket Layer): Yes - can be turned off Javascript: Yes - can be turned off Netscape plugins: A selection Cascading Style Sheets: No - (CSS1 and partial CSS2 coming in version 3.5) File Upload: No - (Coming in version 3.5) Java: No - (but the Sun Java plug-in will be supported in v3.5, 32 bit version only) Hotlist (bookmarks): Yes (Unlimited sublevels) Cache: Yes Email: Yes - sendmail only - Link to other email apps. exists. News: Yes - online reading only (secure news also supported). Offline news coming in a future version. Frames: Yes, but you can turn it off Cookies: Yes, but you can turn it off. No selection possible. Enhanced features planned for a future version. Referrer logging: Yes, but you can turn it off Proxies: Yes, but no URL proxies yet SOCKS: No, not yet, but planned. ActiveX: No. == PLATFORM QUESTIONS ====================== Is there going to be a Mac, Be, Amiga, OS/2, Linux/X11 version? Please refer to our http:/www.operasoftware.com/alt_os.html page for more exciting information about these OS, and for the latest status/progress on the development. How about a GEOS, DOS... version of Opera? Currently we have no plans for porting Opera to these platforms. If demand justifies it, we may consider it though. We are always interested in cooperation on this front, if a company wants to port Opera. Future plans (version 3.5, 4.0...) Opera 3.21 does already support SSL, Javascript, Server push, many Netscape Plugins (those that _don't_ use Java!) and a lot more. All that in a little more than 1MB download! For Opera 3.5 we will have added Java, and CSS. A future version will have a complete Email client. We are also planning to improve our newsreader to make it more user-friendly. Many other ideas are floating around, so stay tuned. There are no release dates as of yet for either version. Please keep in touch via our website, as we update it frequently. == TIPS AND TRICKS ============================================ 1) The font on the new hotlist can now be changed via Preferences/Hotlist/Custom. 2) We recommend not having too large a disk cache, as Opera tends to become instable or slow to start with caches larger than 4MB. 3) If you have problems running Opera, try ENABLING Synchronous DNS under Preferences/Advanced 4) You can switch off both cookies and referrer logging. Simply go to Advanced Preferences and leave the two bottom boxes UNTICKED. 5) Please report all bugs to us via our online bugreport form at http://www.operasoftware.com/bugreport.html . 6) The currently selected hotlist folder is also automatically the active one to which bookmarks will be added via Ctrl-T. 7) You can switch off the Splash screen by editing your OPERA.INI. Under [USER PREFS] enter: SHOW SPLASH SCREEN = 0 8) It is a very good idea to backup your Hotlist from time to time. Make a copy to floppy disk of the file named opera3.adr which is located in the main Opera program directory. The default location is C:\Program Files\Opera 9) If you want to use the feature 'Automatic background loading' via SHIFT-CTRL-CLICK, you need to make sure that you have 'Automatic Window Tile' switched OFF. 10) If you have problems with SSL, make sure you have all the certificates ENABLED under 'Preferences | Security' 11) The warning 'this document will be sent without encryption' can be turned of via Pref./Security/Show and Alert before... 12) If your menu bar is switched off, Ctrl-F11 will make it reappear. Alternatively, you can edit OPERA.INI under [USER PREFS]. Look for a line called SHOW MENU = 0 and change it to 1 . 13) If you want to disable Javascript, you need to DISABLE 'Scripting Languages' in Preferences/Multimedia. 14) If you want to fit more on one page upon printing, you can reduce the scaling via File/Print Scale and Margins. 15) The address book icon on the tool bar ALWAYS shows the currently ACTIVE sublist of your bookmarks. You can make another sublist ACTIVE by either clicking on the appropriate folder in your docked hotlist, or by selecting it via the 'Lists' menu. 16) If you want to let Opera tell you when it's finished with the loading of a page or a file download, the SOUNDS section under Preferences is very useful. There you can determine which sound should be played. 17) A quick shortcut to know is 'G' which toggles your graphics settings. Another one is F2 which opens the 'Direct Addressing' box where you can enter a URL directly. 18) You can also get rid of the Exit dialog box by adding this line to opera.ini under: [USER PREFS] SHOW EXIT DIALOG = 0. 19) See your Opera program Help file for a wealth of information. 20) Opera and multiple file downloads: Opera opens a separate file download window showing all the currently active downloads. If you want to abort/cancel a download, click on the red button next to the %-sign. The other downloads will be unaffected, UNLESS you save the same file to a different location on your harddisk. 21) How can I switch between different online accounts using Opera? Simply edit your OPERA.INI and fill in the fields for the other account. Then save it under a _new_ name. Then create a shortcut for Opera that specifies the respective .INI on the commandline. Opera will then start using that .ini file with the settings for this specific ISP, rather then defaulting to OPERA.INI 22) How can I get any program to load Opera when I click on an http:// link? The Registry has an entry under: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/http/shell/open/command Change the entry value to the path where Opera is, ie. C:\Opera\opera.exe %1 23) You can open HTML documents simply by dragging them from your file manager (Explorer, File Manager, etc.) onto the Opera workspace. 24) If your prev/next buttons do not work, try resizing or minimizing the window. The buttons should become operational again. You may also need to check your 'Preferences | Generic' to see that your History settings have a value higher than zero. 25) Please remember that the price of Opera 3.x is now $35. 26) If you would like to subscribe to our one-way mailing list, please do so at: http://www.operasoftware.com/mailinglist.html 27) You can now also download JPG images from the newsgroup. Just click on the article and a link will show up. Clicking on that link will download the image. 28) The commandline option for using Pegasus Mail from Opera is -T 29) The commandline option for using MS Outlook97 from Opera is /c ipm.note /m 30) You know that you can save your Opera desktop state (including Windows and history) in Opera's ".win" files. These files can also be loaded while Opera is running. 31) To access local files, just press Ctrl-N to get a new window and then C: [Enter], or whatever drive you'd like to access. 32) By defining the Opera user directory in Pref/Advanced, all Opera user files except the opera.ini file will be stored in that directory. 33) Opera makes a backup of your old version (including your Hotlist) upon installation. This will be placed in the opera\backup directory. If you are happy with the latest version, you can delete the files in your backup directory. 34) The commandline option /k turns of the Windows title bar and gives you a fullsceen display if you also turn off the other items, such as menus (Ctrl-F11), scroll and statusbars (Ctrl-F7, Ctrl-F8) and the button bar (via Preferences/Button and Statusbar). 35) Opera doesn't delete those files from the cache that are currently in RAM. You will need to delete them by hand if required. 36) You can use the docked hotlist also to drag and drop bookmarks. Dropping them on a window will open the document in that window. Dropping them on an empty space will open a new window 37) Under Pref/Generic, you can also enter personal information for quick retrieval in forms via the right mouse button (RMB). 38) To turn off the docked hotlist, go to View/Hotlist. 39) The Problem Dialog box can be removed by editing your Opera.ini under [USER PREFS] SHOW PROBLEM DIALOG=0 40) Want to customize your toolbar? No problem! BUTTONS.INI Opera 3.50 contains the same "Button bar" options listed for Opera 3.21 (see the end of this document for these) PLUS these additional parameters... Opera 3.50 contains a new button structure where you can design and/or define your own set of buttons in the program. You can use either JPEG or GIF images. This is defined in the files: OPERA.INI. (Points to the button file that you specify.) BUTTONS.INI (default button file.) To use your own toolbar buttons in Opera, make a new folder in the \Opera\Button directory. Name it what you wish. Include a copy of the file named: buttons.ini in your new button folder. Modify this copy of buttons.ini to suit your new set of buttons, and save this file under another name (to avoid confusion). Go to Opera's 'Preferences/Button and Status Bar', specify the file path to your new buttons.ini in the "Image set" field. Re-start Opera, and your new buttons will be used. You can specify any HEIGHT and WIDTH (in pixels) of your buttons (as seen below). You cannot specify the order/placement of your buttons. This is the file named BUTTONS.INI defined: [OPTIONS] MouseOver = 1 Disabled = 0 Enabled = 0 The above 3 features are not yet enabled in the Opera program. Simply disregard them and their subsequent explanations if your copy of buttons.ini has these items. Width = 22 Width of the 'box' containing the image. The default is 22 pixels. Height = 20 Height of the 'box' containing the image. The default is 20 pixels. [BUTTONS] New = ("New" button in toolbar) Open = ("Open" button in toolbar) Save = ("Save" button in toolbar) Print = ("Print" button in toolbar) Copy = ("Copy" button in toolbar) Search = ("Search" button in toolbar) Previous = ("Previous" button in toolbar) Reload = ("Reload" button in toolbar) Next = ("Next" button in toolbar) Home = ("Go to the home page" button in toolbar) URL = ("Direct input...URL" button in toolbar) Hotlist = ("Hotlist" button in toolbar) Tile = ("Tile windows" button in toolbar) Cascade = ("Cascade windows" button in toolbar) News Previous = ("Show Previous" button in news toolbar) News Next = ("Show Next" button in news toolbar) News Reply = ("Reply to" button in news toolbar) News Followup = ("Followup" button in news toolbar) News Forward = ("Forward" button in news toolbar) News Post = ("Post news article" button in news toolbar) News Unmark = ("Mark selected article as unread" button in news toolbar) News Mark = ("Mark article as read" button in news toolbar) News Overview = ("Show associated news overview" button in news toolbar) News Group = ("Show associated news group" button in [Article] news toolbar) News Show All = ("Toggle listing all/subscribed only" button in news [Overview] toolbar) News Show Old = ("Toggle listing all/unread only" button in news [Group] toolbar) News Catchup = ("Mark all articles in newsgroup as read" button in news toolbar) News Thread = ("Show threads" button in news toolbar) Send = ("Send" button in the news [Mail] toolbar) Include = ("Include" button in news [Mail] toolbar) Stop = ("Stop" button in Progress bar) Load Images = (Button shown when "Load and show images" is selected) Show Images = (Button shown when "Show downloaded images only" is selected) No Images = (Button shown when "Do not load and show images" is selected) Doc Progress = (Icon displayed for document load progress) Fig Progress = ("Show number of figures loaded/found in the document" icon displayed) No Security = (Icon displayed for pages without security) Low Security = (Icon displayed for pages with low security) Medium Security = (Icon displayed for pages with medium security) High Security = (Icon displayed for pages with high security) CSS None = ("Toggle Document Settings" button displayed when CSS is disabled) CSS Full = ("Toggle Document Settings" button displayed when CSS is enabled) **Although the button set can be chosen from the Opera user interface, via 'Preferences/Button and Status Bar' this is the entry in OPERA.INI that defines which button set that Opera should use: [USER PREFS] BUTTON DIRECTORY=(where the BUTTON SET -file and pictures reside) BUTTON SET=(name of file containing button settings) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All Opera 3.x versions... You can customize your button bar. (You must set the Button bar type to "Full" under 'Preferences') Then add the following to your opera.ini file: [TOOLBAR] SHOW NEW BUTTON=1 SHOW OPEN BUTTON=0 SHOW SAVE BUTTON=1 SHOW PRINT BUTTON=1 SHOW COPY BUTTON=1 SHOW SEARCH BUTTON=0 SHOW PREV BUTTON=1 SHOW RELOAD BUTTON=1 SHOW NEXT BUTTON=1 SHOW HOME BUTTON=1 SHOW OPEN URL BUTTON=1 SHOW HOT LIST BUTTON=1 SHOW TILE BUTTON=0 SHOW CASCADE BUTTON=0 0 means off, or no. 1 means on, or yes. Set the above parameters as you please. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you again for your interest. We hope this document addresses your problems. 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