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== Opera ==

Installing Opera on test machines is easy. From a shell, run these commands as root:
Installing Opera on test machines is easy. From a shell, run these commands as root:


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This installs version 9.10. To learn about the most recent builds of Opera, check the [http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog Opera desktop blog] and select the statically linked rpm packages for Unix/intel-linux.
This installs version 9.10. To learn about the most recent builds of Opera, check the [http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog Opera desktop blog] and select the statically linked rpm packages for Unix/intel-linux.

Opera is more than a web browser, it's also an RSS reader, bittorrent client, and IRC client.


Opera offers keyboard shortcuts that may come handy:
Opera offers keyboard shortcuts that may come handy:
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* w/s navigates up/down in headings
* w/s navigates up/down in headings
* 9/0 zooms page out/in
* 9/0 zooms page out/in

==Known problems==

* Running certain JavaScripts inside Opera causes the machine to freeze. To avoid this, you can turn off JavaScript in the preferences. Here is a minimal test case that exposes the problem:

<script type="text/javascript">
var d = new Date()
d.getMilliseconds()
document.write(d)
</script>

* Fullscreen isn't quite fullscreen, there's a gray bar at the bottom
* Widgets are not yet usable
* Opera is not integrated into the Sugar UI

Revision as of 00:02, 22 December 2006

Installing Opera on test machines is easy. From a shell, run these commands as root:

wget ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/910/final/en/i386/static/opera-9.10-20061214.1-static-qt.i386-en.rpm
rpm -vi opera-9.10-20061214.1-static-qt.i386-en.rpm

This installs version 9.10. To learn about the most recent builds of Opera, check the Opera desktop blog and select the statically linked rpm packages for Unix/intel-linux.

Opera is more than a web browser, it's also an RSS reader, bittorrent client, and IRC client.

Opera offers keyboard shortcuts that may come handy:

  • q/a navigates up/down in links
  • w/s navigates up/down in headings
  • 9/0 zooms page out/in

Known problems

  • Running certain JavaScripts inside Opera causes the machine to freeze. To avoid this, you can turn off JavaScript in the preferences. Here is a minimal test case that exposes the problem:
<script type="text/javascript">
 var d = new Date()
 d.getMilliseconds()
 document.write(d)
</script>
  • Fullscreen isn't quite fullscreen, there's a gray bar at the bottom
  • Widgets are not yet usable
  • Opera is not integrated into the Sugar UI