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Armando:
Armando: did you try tweaking either/both:

opera:config#UserPrefs|SmoothScrolling
opera:config#UserPrefs|TurboMode

-nontroppo (December 31, 2007, 10:34 AM)
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Thanks nontroppo (and a happy new year to come !!!  :Thmbsup: ).
I tried these before and they don't make the scrolling good enough.
That + what tomos and f0dder described = me won't using Opera.
Which is too bad because I really love opera for so many other things -- and some very important too me, like speed, lightness, etc.

urlwolf:
The scroll in 9.5 is fantastic, much better than in any other browser. it has acceleration/deceleration, you must see this... it feels so natural.

adBlockPlus = use adMuncher; much better anyway (not free though)

@Tomos:
plain text clipboard is one of the most stupid things the opera team has done (and they stick to it!). I find it horrible too, I need it to cut/paste to oneNote.

Let's start a mass complaint int the forum (yet again!)....

f0dder:
adMuncher much better, ho humm. AdBlockPlus works as it's supposed to, comes with predefined & updated rules, and doesn't hook into all apps.

nontroppo:
Happy new year to all you bunch too!  :-*

icekin: Opera uses available memory, but does so much more efficiently. I've tested this using a google images stress test: open 3 tabs with 3 different google image searches, navigate through 10 pages on each (30 pages = 600 images!), now try to fast navigate backwards. Opera keeps all 30 pages prerendered in less memory than FF, and FF fails to fast-navigate back after the third page. So Opera is using its memory cache more efficiently than FF as far as I can tell, irrespective of overall numbers.

For those interested, this is what I have in my urlfilter.ini exclude list, blocks most of the annoying stuff for me and the small list keeps page loading fast (Firefox or Opera slows down considerably with large blocklists):


--- ---http://*.2mdn.net/*
http://*.adbrite.com/*
http://*.bidvertiser.com/*
http://*.mediaplex.com/*
http://*.rmxads.com/iframe*
http://*.streamray.com/bestclicked/*
http://*adsrevenue.net*
http://*inklineglobal.com/ad*
http://*intellitxt.com/intellitxt*
http://*realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/*
http://ad.doubleclick.net*
http://ad.yieldmanager.com/*
http://ads.doubleclick.net/*
http://banner.nonstoppartner.de/*
http://cdn.euroclick.com/contents/*
http://cdn.eyewonder.com/*
http://cdn.fastclick.net/fastclick.net/*
http://cdn2.precisionclick.com/*
http://cdn5.tribalfusion.com/media/*
http://clicktorrent.info/phpAdsNew/*
http://content.yieldmanager.edgesuite.net/*
http://crtv.mate1.com/crtv/*
http://ctxt.tribalfusion.com/ctxt*
http://*.nytimes.com/ads/*
http://i.cmpnet.com/ads/*
http://kona.kontera.com/*
http://layer-ads.de/*
http://m.tangozebra.com/*
http://media.baventures.com/ispy/*
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/*
http://pages.etology.com/gtbimg/*
http://spe.atdmt.com/*
http://speed.pointroll.com/PointRoll/*
http://www.google-analytics.com/__*
http://www.popinads.com/*

Armando:
thanks for your list nontroppo!

[slightly off-topic] BTW, are there any advantages to use the "bookmarks system" instead of favorites (like in IE, Maxthon, etc.; I earlier mentioned the fact that I didn't like bookmarks, and that I'm currently using the PlainOldFavorites add-on for firefox -- which allows to use favorites in Firefox instead [/slightly off-topic]

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