Tag Archives: Opera

Tweak Opera to Befriend Transmission

I use Opera as my main browser and I use Transmission as my torrent client.  The problem begins that Opera is its own torrent client.  Nothing wrong with that except that I want Opera to pass torrents over to Transmission … Continue reading

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Opera flickr Workaround

I have been having trouble signing into flickr for a long time now.  As a matter of fact, I mostly stopped using flickr because of this issue. My initial tests pointed to a third-party cookie issue.  It seemed that either … Continue reading

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Linux and the Visually Impared

I stumbed upon a rather interesting built-in feature on my Linux box. All of the colors—images, text areas, icons, &c—have been inverted.  Perhaps you’d like to see your Opera perform like this?  Or any other application on your computer? This … Continue reading

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The Future is Now

The newest version of Opera is running loose in the world.  Excited?  You should be: Some of the most interesting features and ones which I constantly take advantage of I will mention briefly here. Opera allows you to sync your … Continue reading

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Opera mailto Thunderbird

Well, I wanted my Opera to use Thunderbird for mailto links.  Even though I have changed the System —> Preferences —> Preferred Applications in Ubuntu Opera was not recognizing Thunderbird as the default mail client.  So it goes. I had … Continue reading

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Add Opera to Ubuntu’s Update Manager (Synaptic)

One of the nice bits about running a version of Linux which supports a robust package management system is that the operating system itself can manage your updates.  This means that not only does your operating system seek out and … Continue reading

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