Month: October 2006

I met a guy who likes Opera but would prefer to use windows instead of tabs. The more technical name for this is SDI (Single Document Interface) opposed to MDI (Multiple Document Interface) or TDI (Tabbed Document Interface, which is kind of a crippled MDI).

As Opera is astonishing customizable it is pretty easy to make Opera behave like a SDI application. But it requires to change several settings. During my research I couldn't find a somehow complete guide for this. So here is my comprehensive description to make Opera SDI-like.

Update: Shoust made a nice Custom Button that toggles between SDI and MDI, which very easily changes the settings for Open windows instead of tabs, tab bar and Middle click option (background window / background tab):
button …

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I got a really interesting question for opening images in IrfanView with a mouse gesture instead of using the right click menu from jme3 in my blog post about Azureus, IrfanView and Open folder for transfers in Right Click menu:

Originally posted by jme3:

I would love to open an image in IrfanView when pressing shift and clicking the left button of the mouse.

Resume: theoretically it may work but I couldn't get Opera to do it properly.

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I just read on heise.de (German) that Google Gadgets can be used on webpages now. And Opera Widgets are simple webpages. Should be a perfect match.:idea: …

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From time to time I read about the question, why Opera has only little market share, although it is such an outstanding application (e.g. Why hasn’t Opera been able to attract more users? by Daniel Goldman).

Often the given answers are technically driven, but with learning some lessons from the Browser Wars technical aspects, even technical leadership, seems to be pretty irrelevant. Equally I don't believe that there is something wrong with the name Opera or the logo.

In this article I'll first think about the steps necessary to become and be an Opera user. Then I look for the reasons of higher market share of Internet Explorer and Firefox. In the end I take a look for possible starting points to spread Opera. …

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