Although Opera still considers its Linux browser to be in the beta stage, the latest version (Linux Opera TP3) is very impressive its range of operational options.
One of these, is that it has three options for dealing with image (.gif. .jpg) links. These are: no images; show images; and load images. The second option, unique to Opera to the best of my knowledge, shows the images that are cached. This would dovetail very well with WWWOFFLE's DontGet and DontFetch options, if the two programs could be persuaded to recognise the same cache. At the moment (at least in my setup), Opera's show option does not recognise the images sitting in WWWOFFLE's cache; Opera's load option does. However if, while viewing cached pages with the `load' option switched on (and wwwoffled loaded but wwwoffle offline), at least some nonloaded image links appear to be added automatically to WWWOFFLE's Outgoing list. In general, this does no great harm. If the automatically added items are on the DontGet list, they are generally ignored by WWWOFFLE. The state of affairs came to my attention because Opera added (without asking me) a link to a location in faz (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) that created an infinite loop when WWWOFFLE (as currently configured) tried to fetch it. And I have had similar experiences with attempts to use WWWOFFLE to fetch pages in the New York Times. I suspect that the noted problem would disappear if the browser were set at the `show images' rather than `load images' option. However, then it fails to load the images that are sitting in the WWWOFFLE cache. If there is a simple configuration tweak that will spare me the need to switch continually from `show' to `load' and back again, I would be glad to be told. Felix Karpfen -- Felix Karpfen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA) Keyserver http://wwwkeys.au.pgp.net
