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Trying to switch to Opera: Need help, tips
wreckedcarzz:
Hey all, been a while since I've posted anything, but I am stuck and need assistance, so I've turned to you, DC! :P
I've been a big fan of Firefox for a long time, especially the addons and extendability of it. I tried out Chrome (which, avoiding a long story, was a letdown), and am awaiting IE9 to go gold. In the meantime, I have FF4 beta and decided to give Opera 11 a whirl (I use Opera Mobile on my phone, and like the simple interface a lot, and the speed is much faster than the standard Android browser). However, I've come to a few snags in the process; I went around in the settings and changed the options to my liking (some awkward/unusual defaults threw me off, like Control+Tab going in last-used order, not tab-bar order, etc). I am using the content blocking as an attempt to keep advertisements at bay (I'm missing Adblock Plus, but the list I have isn't half bad - anyone got anything better, though?), and Unite is a nice little addition, although I haven't played with it much yet.
My main problem is that I cannot find anything to bring my Firefox passwords into Opera :tellme:. And seeing as I used a password generator (the app name escapes me atm) and have 25 character alpha-numeric-symbol passwords for the majority of sites (about 50 or so different sites), I would really like to avoid having to re-type each and every one into Opera. Reading from Google hits, it seems the two have inoperable password encryption/storage methods, but I'm really hoping for a simple fix for this. I'm dealing with the lack of Adblock Plus, BarTab, Betterprivacy and HTTPS Everywhere, I just need my passwords! Anyone have any insight? :'(
Oh, and any other miscellaneous suggestions that you have, go ahead and throw em at me. Even without the usual addons, I'm liking Opera lots, and if there are ways to get more cool functionality out of it, I'd really like to know!
-Brandon
fenixproductions:
Adblock Plus-wreckedcarzz
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I've used RMB ads blocking few times only because I preferred to edit its urlfilter.ini file. Maybe this can work for you? :)
HTTPS Everywhere-wreckedcarzz
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It may be possible with UserJS?
I just need my passwords! Anyone have any insight? :'(-wreckedcarzz
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Was using Opera for years and I can only say that its passwords management always sucked. No import, no export, just pray :(
Paul Keith:
Longer article for urlfilter.ini:
http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/index.dml/tag/urlfilter.ini
Sadly Opera 11 is unstable to me so I'm not sure if I would suggest such extensions as this:
https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/noads/1.0.8/?display=en
My main problem is that I cannot find anything to bring my Firefox passwords into Opera
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This is one reason why I use LastPass but assuming you really don't want to re-type it all in one go, you could type it as you need it. The big difference about Opera's Wand and Firefox/Chrome's default password manager is the Wand is not really a password manager.
It's a type -> it saves -> then you no longer need to type your password or even know which places you have a password for mechanic and so things like typing it all in isn't as useful as you may think in practice.
HTTPS everywhere
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https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/redirect-to-https/1.96/?display=en
Was using Opera for years and I can only say that its passwords management always sucked. No import, no export, just pray
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Export is copy pasting it from the Applications Data directory if I'm not mistaken.
http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/view-saved-passwords-in-wand
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/313/
Exporting out of browsers though is a manual type and re-type.
jgpaiva:
I haven't had the same experience as Paul Keith regarding the stability of Opera 11.
Even though I'll say it's unstable, I don't think it is more so that any other version :P
I've been using opera 11 as my main browser ever since it came out in alpha version and honestly I think it's pretty good. Also, I've been using NoAds for a while and had no problem other than occasionally it blocking some scripts it shouldn't. (when this happens, go to the bottom right corner of the page, and click the button so that it'll stop blocking scripts)
Opera wand really has always been very closed, but maybe lastpass will work for you. (Disclaimer: I've never tried it)
wreckedcarzz:
SpoilerAdblock Plus-wreckedcarzz
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I've used RMB ads blocking few times only because I preferred to edit its urlfilter.ini file. Maybe this can work for you? :)
HTTPS Everywhere-wreckedcarzz
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It may be possible with UserJS?
I just need my passwords! Anyone have any insight? :'(-wreckedcarzz
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Was using Opera for years and I can only say that its passwords management always sucked. No import, no export, just pray :(
-fenixproductions (March 01, 2011, 06:59 AM)
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I was unaware of the right click blocking, which is nice; I am already using Tamil's "Optimized Filter" ini file, as well as the counter blocking, but the right click option will let me get the stray ones that make it through :)
I am unfamiliar with UserJS, I've been seeing it mentioned a lot, I'll have to read up and tinker a bit it seems to understand.
SpoilerLonger article for urlfilter.ini:
http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/index.dml/tag/urlfilter.ini
Sadly Opera 11 is unstable to me so I'm not sure if I would suggest such extensions as this:
https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/noads/1.0.8/?display=en
My main problem is that I cannot find anything to bring my Firefox passwords into Opera
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This is one reason why I use LastPass but assuming you really don't want to re-type it all in one go, you could type it as you need it. The big difference about Opera's Wand and Firefox/Chrome's default password manager is the Wand is not really a password manager.
It's a type -> it saves -> then you no longer need to type your password or even know which places you have a password for mechanic and so things like typing it all in isn't as useful as you may think in practice.
HTTPS everywhere
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https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/redirect-to-https/1.96/?display=en
Was using Opera for years and I can only say that its passwords management always sucked. No import, no export, just pray
--- End quote ---
Export is copy pasting it from the Applications Data directory if I'm not mistaken.
http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/view-saved-passwords-in-wand
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/313/
Exporting out of browsers though is a manual type and re-type.
-Paul Keith (March 01, 2011, 08:28 AM)
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I'm using that same urlfilter.ini right now, but it doesn't catch everything (but the right-click blocking options should fix that).
I'm also looking into the NoAds extension now, as well as the Redirect to HTTPS; will give 'em a go and see how it works out. The worst that can happen is a crash :P
SpoilerI haven't had the same experience as Paul Keith regarding the stability of Opera 11.
Even though I'll say it's unstable, I don't think it is more so that any other version :P
I've been using opera 11 as my main browser ever since it came out in alpha version and honestly I think it's pretty good. Also, I've been using NoAds for a while and had no problem other than occasionally it blocking some scripts it shouldn't. (when this happens, go to the bottom right corner of the page, and click the button so that it'll stop blocking scripts)
Opera wand really has always been very closed, but maybe lastpass will work for you. (Disclaimer: I've never tried it)
-jgpaiva (March 01, 2011, 08:50 AM)
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I haven't had any problems with it yet; themes, addons, Unite, even the built-in Mail client works well. Hopefully things stay that way :up:
I'll give the Lastpass extension a shot, too. I'll still have to at least open my current password manager and copy/paste to LP, but that's better than doing it one character at a time.
Thanks all :)
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