[diamondgeezer]

Not the fat lady kind, the browser kind. I'm sick off IE6 gaying up on me and my various OS discs have all disappeared. So instead of a Windows reinstall I stuck Opera on me box.

First question - I got rid of all the default crap in the bookmarks menu and imported me IE favourites, but how can I make me links dsplay like in IE?

Second - I got rid of all the pointless buttons in the toolbar customizer but they haven't gone away. Perhaps this is cos the customizer doesn't have an apply button. What shoud I be doing?

[Levyathan]

To display links like in Explorer, I guess you have to put them in the 'links' folder in the bookmarks and activate the 'Personal bar'. Or something.

[diamondgeezer]

I don't want to activate the nasty little personal bar. I killed it dead for a reason.

[kasperl]

uhm, DG, you might find that iframes and CSS won't work properly under Opera, so don't be suprised if some sites (as the Fleetwars site) look a little wierd.

[Levyathan]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I don't want to activate the nasty little personal bar.

What the hell's wrong with the personal bar?

[Admiral LSD]

The personal bar is Opera's equivalent of the IE Links bar, you'll have to re-enable it and add all the items on your IE Links folder into the Personal Bar (you can do this through drag and drop in the Manage Bookmar window) folder if you want your Links to work like in IE.

If you want to get rid of a particular button on the main toolbar at least (the one with the Back, Forward etc) just right click the button you want to remove and select "Remove from Toolbar."

[diamondgeezer]

Ah, yes, that got it Admiral. The Personal Bar seems less nasty once I got rid of all the junk it was filled with by default. Nicely. OK, next, does anyone know how I'd add buttons for, say, Messenger, ICQ or DAP like I have in IE?

[Admiral LSD]

Yeah, the default searches aren't terribly useful but if you put the Find in Page (which Mozilla copied as it's "inline find" feature) and Google searches (which Mozilla copied again) on they're almost indispensable.

[Odyssey]

Originally posted by kasperl
uhm, DG, you might find that iframes and CSS won't work properly under Opera, so don't be suprised if some sites (as the Fleetwars site) look a little wierd.

Unless by 'properly' you mean 'like IE does things', then Opera is great. In my experience, Opera's interpretation system sympathises with both IE's standards and proper HTML standards, but you can't expect something that is programmed properly to always understand what IE does. For instance, IE sometimes, just sometimes, randomly, reacts to new lines on table layouts. It ain't right. Iframes especially are one of those things that IE does very differently to normal standards.
Unfortunately it's 'better' to design for IE, since IE is the majority, but that makes for some really interesting layouts in, say, Mozilla - which is pure W3C standard.

[diamondgeezer]

Aaargh, the damn music won't play on my site. A pox on 'alternative' browsers! Still, it doesn't crash, which is a plus...

[kode]

I'd be glad if I came to a site and it didn't play some annoying music that doesn't harmonise with my normal mp3 background music.

[diamondgeezer]

But this music is Johnny Cash. You owe it to yourself to listen

[kode]

now you assumed I didn't have cash on my playlist.

right now, that assumement is correct. I have old german electronic music that became hits for no reason (more specifically: Mo-Do - Eins Zwei Polizei).

[diamondgeezer]

How odd. Myself, I'm playing MIDIs from old Nintendo games. You ought to chat with Petrarch sometime...

[kode]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
How odd. Myself, I'm playing MIDIs from old Nintendo games. You ought to chat with Petrarch sometime...

no.

[diamondgeezer]

But he gives out complimentary M&Ms...

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Indeed I do, and free inane ramblings.

[diamondgeezer]

And advice on wearing hats

[Petrarch of the VBB]

And a different username everytime I blink.

[Zeronet]

Different and diverse usernames.