Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:04 am
So in the end we basically agree?
I do so wish Opera would include plugin support though. I can't imagine it would significantly slow down the system or anything. Would it? If not, as I assume, then they really ought to do it. I'll trawl the forums and see what kind of discussion there is about that. Surely other people agree that "widgets" are just not enough.
Edit: Well, seems like you can turn up some interesting stuff if you poke around a bit. Hehe.
First off there is indeed a plugin system: http://www.opera.com/docs/pluginapi/ Interesting choice to make it the Netscape 4 plugin architecture. Dunno why that would be, or how old the system is in Opera.
How about ActiveX and IE tabs in Opera? http://www.opera.com/support/search/sup ... ?index=415 Not officially supported, no idea if it works, but sounds interesting.
You can also do some things with the Panel, one of which happens to potentially take care of your weather interest. Here's a quote from the forums: [quote]Opera does not have a plugin system like FF's. For this purpose however you can use a panel. Go to http://www.accuweather.com/pda/pda_5dy. ... 2C+Florida and drag the tab to you sidebar. Not ideal perhaps, but it works. (for better vissibility set the panl to small screen rendering in it's view menu)"[/url]
I tried it and it seems to work fairly well, although I don't know if it provides you as much info as you want. I'm not entirely sure what the Firefox plugin you use handles.
Anyway, some promising stuff. A shame the plugin support isn't more widely publicized or taken advantage of.
As for "running out of memory" while using a browser, I agree that's unlikely to happen with just the browser. But I regularly have 2 rows of tabs open on a 1600x1200 display - that's upwards of 40 open windows - and the memory use can increase a lot in those cases. This becomes an issue even on machines with lots of memory when you also want to be rendering in say TG2 or building a large terrain in, oh, perhaps L3DT.
- Oshyan
I do so wish Opera would include plugin support though. I can't imagine it would significantly slow down the system or anything. Would it? If not, as I assume, then they really ought to do it. I'll trawl the forums and see what kind of discussion there is about that. Surely other people agree that "widgets" are just not enough.
Edit: Well, seems like you can turn up some interesting stuff if you poke around a bit. Hehe.
First off there is indeed a plugin system: http://www.opera.com/docs/pluginapi/ Interesting choice to make it the Netscape 4 plugin architecture. Dunno why that would be, or how old the system is in Opera.
How about ActiveX and IE tabs in Opera? http://www.opera.com/support/search/sup ... ?index=415 Not officially supported, no idea if it works, but sounds interesting.
You can also do some things with the Panel, one of which happens to potentially take care of your weather interest. Here's a quote from the forums: [quote]Opera does not have a plugin system like FF's. For this purpose however you can use a panel. Go to http://www.accuweather.com/pda/pda_5dy. ... 2C+Florida and drag the tab to you sidebar. Not ideal perhaps, but it works. (for better vissibility set the panl to small screen rendering in it's view menu)"[/url]
I tried it and it seems to work fairly well, although I don't know if it provides you as much info as you want. I'm not entirely sure what the Firefox plugin you use handles.
Anyway, some promising stuff. A shame the plugin support isn't more widely publicized or taken advantage of.
As for "running out of memory" while using a browser, I agree that's unlikely to happen with just the browser. But I regularly have 2 rows of tabs open on a 1600x1200 display - that's upwards of 40 open windows - and the memory use can increase a lot in those cases. This becomes an issue even on machines with lots of memory when you also want to be rendering in say TG2 or building a large terrain in, oh, perhaps L3DT.
- Oshyan