h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You can easily tell how good this browser is. This post has been up for a fortnight and nobody has even tried to come back with a 'Well, my Firefox browser can do this...' type convo yet.

This thread,rather. Threads, posts, tweets, it's all rather confusing really....

Stick with hootoo then

The only bit I don't like is when using turbo stuff gets a bit pixelated, but its nothing major and I know why it does it.

"Stick with hootoo then"

What, for all the posts, threads, journals, spaces, messages, friends, subscribed users, bookmarks, guide entries, edited entries, recommended entries, pending entries, help pages, review forums and skins?

Yep Variety is the best bit of hootoo

So, all you people who've used opera for yonks: how do I tell it what my homepage should be? So far, it opens on the last page I was on before closing it, and that's usually the hootoo sign-out page.

Tools -> Preferences
This shows up a little panel with a couple of useful options at the top.

The first is 'Startup' and defines the behaviour when you launch Opera. If yours is starting with the signout page then you probably have this set to 'Continue from last time' - this means that all the pages you had open when you closed it down will be brought back when you restart.
If you change it to 'Start with home page' it will do that. Or you could use the blank page (more of which later).

The box underneath 'Startup' is where you set your homepage. Then just OK it.

Re: blank page - you can use the speed dial option to start with a page showing up 9 page links for your most frequently used pages.

Oooh, thank you.

You can also chage the number of options for speed dial, in the bottom right on the speed dial page you ca change it there by clicking on configure speed dial.

I've got 230 pages on my speed dial pages. Haven't used a bookmark for weeks!

I've got a widescreen monitor, so I usually just have the bookmarks open in the sidebar.

I might have made a bit of a typo there. I've 20 pages, not 230. 230 would clearly be excessive.

I've set a cool background on my speed dial. I have a widescreen monitor, on a laptop so its not really big enough

I don't use the speed dial. I either open bookmarks, or if I need a new tab, I retrieve one from the bin rather than adding one.

I find it helps to have the address and status toolbars positioned at the bottom of the screen.

I've dragged h2g2 onto the address bar so when I want to open it I just click the hootoo button

I just keep it open from session to session, since I don't share the computer

Probably not too good for my productivity, but hey.

well me too now opera 10'd - although mine did not install as an update either (its the beta version from their website).
Didn't properly import my email so had to faff around finding my passwords again!
And I'll keep opera9 about till 10 is an upgrade so that it pulls in the wand stuff and so forth.

Tried the Turbo thing - after about 5 mins it popped up a box saying that I appeared to be on a fast network and that opera works better on them if turbo is off. Very odd - mind you virgin have just upgraded me from 2mb to 10mb broadband so that could be it!

Next thing - find the spelling toggle and get it to remove the silly red underlines! If I wanted to use an MS environment I would...

Otherwise, all very nice and neat so far!

You can set the turbo to automatic and it will only engage when the line quality drops. BTW the new beta 2 has just come out. I just upgraded, seems a bit quicker again. Only difference I can see is the Opera link and Opera unite buttons have disappeared. Apparently something to do with Unite being a labs snapshot not a beta (in other words they've taken it off to tweak it a bit more). According to their site, the next update should be the merger of the two, then the full release.

Did you not get an upgrade option anywhere? Mine has imported all the bookmarks and the wand passwords with no problems whatsoever. I upgraded after getting a box pop up saying an upgrade to Opera 10 beta was available. When I clicked download it offered me upgrade or separate install as the options.

I'm still using 9.64, and it's been crashing a *lot* lately