小径通幽处…

折腾了半天，终于成功地把Opera里面的数千封email成功地导入了Seamonkey。办法如下：

1. 下载MBS2MBX。如果是Opera 7的话，下载V1.2就可以了；7.5以上的可以下载1.6版本；
2. 解压，因为是Python程序，需要安装Phython2.3以上运行；
3. 运行后界面如下，选择你的Opera Email的文件夹，然后选择导出的文件夹，如果多账号且需要分开的话选择account.ini文件，然后运行”Start Mbox-conversion”，会有进度显示到完成；
4. 完成转换后，启动Seamonkey/Email，工具-〉导入-〉选择Eudora，然后选择保存的文件夹位置，就可以转换了。一切顺利的话，你的Opera中的邮件就可以成功地导入Seamonkey了。我操作的大概是4000封左右的邮件，一切OK；
5. 当然了，为了安全起见，请做好相应的备份工作。

From: http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2006/02/opera-9-tp-2

Opera 9, Technology Preview 2 has just been released. With changes. Read on and get the meat of the story: Widgets, thumbnails, BitTorrent and more.

Widgets

Yes, Opera 9 now features Widgets: Small web applications that run outside the browser, directly on the user’s desktop. These widgets, unlike a regular browser, has cross-domain features, so it’s an ideal platform for delivering Web applications that interact with multiple online services at once. Opera Widgets are cross-platform, and run both on Windows, Linux and OS X.

Since widgets are chromeless, they’re also ideal for eye-candy applications, such as this analog clock:

If you are a developer, and would like to get started with widget development, see the Widget developer’s page — the tutorials there are:

• End-user documentation (the really-quick user documentation is: Install the TP, press F6 and then “Add”)
• Your first widget: Hello World!
• Animate your first widget
• The Opera Animation library
• Deploying widgets

Over time, more documentation for developers is going to be added to this page, from the simple to the more complex.

With widgets, Opera is also introducing OWAL, the Opera Web Applications License 1.0 which allows authors to reuse libraries developed by Opera for widget development.

Content blocking

Opera has always had the opportunity to block unwanted external content. Up until now, this has been an expert-only feature, requiring editing of the urlfilter.ini file. Well, those days are long gone. You can now right-click on any page, and select “Block content” to block external images, flash movies:

If you want to see more of the content blocker, my colleague Petter Nilsen has written in-depth about it, with multiple screenshots.

BitTorrent

Yes, BitTorrent is back. This is technology previously previewed in the 8.10 cycle, then it went away for a few versions. The client has improved since then, in addition to bittorrent search being added. Use b [search term] in the address bar to search files directly on search.bittorrent.com

opera:config improvements

opera:config, introduced in Opera 9 TP1, has seen some major improvements, style-wise:

Not only is the styling improved, the functionality is also improved, as every item in the file now has a permalink, signified by the » after an item, so pointing users to the exact setting you’re refering to is as easy as creating any other link on the web.

Web page thumbnails

Opera 9 tp2 features Web page thumbnails when you hover over tabs:

Not only are these thumbnails in the tabs, but they are also added as an option to the Ctrl-Tab cycle:

The Ctrl-Tab is turned off by default, but can be turned on by checking the option Use Thumbnails in Window Cycle in opera:config

Again, you can view more screenshots over at Petter Nilsen’s blog.

History

The history panel and history tab in Opera has seen some major improvements in this version: The history is no longer a flat list of items you have visited. Instead you now have these views:

• Time and site view: This view groups your site into “Today”, “Yesterday” and similar, with the domains you’ve visited grouped as subfolders inside this view.
• Time view: This view groups your history by date, and keeps the sites visited on that date in order, with no other particular grouping.
• Site view: Like you probably already guessed, this simply organizes your history by domain.

Error console

The error console in this preview is pretty much all new. First of all, it’s now renamed from “JavaScript console” to error console, because it now is host to all of the error messages in Opera: M2, Java, JavaScript, CSS, XML, XSLT, SVG, Network, and BitTorrent errors.

Source viewer

The source viewer/editor, introduced with TP1 has seen further improvement, as it now also syntax highlights source

Customizable searches

The searches in Opera are now customizable from the Search tab in (the improved) Preferences:

Again, Petter has more details on search customization

Site-specific preferences

If you need to customize aspects of a site, like change its plug-in settings, alter the appearance by pointing to a different stylesheet, changing cookie settings or similar, Opera now has site-specific preferences:

Access to the site-specific preferences is through an extra menu item in “Quick preferences” (F12) which will open a dialog with the preferences for the site you’re currently visiting.

labs.opera.com

In conjunction with the release of this preview, the new Opera Labs site is also set to go live. Bookmark it, visit it, and subscribe to the RSS feed.

Much more: Changelogs

There really is much more, but if I was going to delve into it all, this would end up as the longest blog post in history. I’d suggest checking out the changelogs, where you’ll also find the appropriate changelogs:

• Changelog for Windows
• Changelog for Unix/Linux
• Changelog for Mac

In addition to these, you can read some other Opera employee postings on Opera 9 tp 2 (This list is live):

• Tim Altman
• Moose: On internal stylesheets (he has loads and loads of more links, explore his site)
• Peter Karlsson: Changes in preferences
• Anne van Kesteren: Opera 9 Preview 2

You’ll find the appropriate download links in the changelogs. Remember: This is a technical preview, not production software. Which means that we appreciate bug reports and feedback, which you can do by filing bugs, and/or posting in the Beta testing forum.

From: Opera Labs

We’ve released a technology preview of Opera 9, codenamed Merlin, on Opera Labs. There are some very cool features we want you to try:

Opera Widgets –

Widgets are small AJAX applications that provide specific functionality – like getting your favorite news, converting currency and so on. We’ve posted documentation on Opera Widgets – not only how to use them but also how to make them. Go to My Opera Community to download Widgets.
Widgets 就是一些提供特定功能的小AJAX程序-比如获取你喜爱的新闻,汇率转换等等.我们提供了Opera Widgets的文档-不只是告诉你如何使用,并且有制作教程.你也可以去Opera社区下载Widgets.

BitTorrent –

BitTorrent has become one of the most popular file transfer protocols around. We built it right into the browser so you can download torrent files easily. No more hassle finding the right port, no worries about setting upload and download speed. We’ve worked to optimize all of that for you.
BitTorrent目前成为一种十分流行的文件传输协议.我们在浏览器中内置了BT来帮助你方便的下载torrent文件.不再需要到处寻找合适的端口,不用担心上传和下载速度的设置.我们帮你做了好了优化.

Customize your search engines –

Use your favorite search engine in the search box. Go to the site you want and right click on the search field site and click on the search field. You will then be prompted to “create search”
在搜索栏里使用你喜欢的搜索引擎.浏览你需要的站点右击搜索栏地址然后点击搜索栏(?).”创建搜索”就会自动弹出了.

Improved content blocker –

Cosmetic surgery for Web pages. Just right click on a page and select “block content”. Any content not greyed out can be blocked with a click. Select “done” and see the page the way you want.
页面的整容术.只要右击页面选择”屏蔽内容”.只要一次点击就可以轻松屏蔽不需要的内容.选择”完成”就可以查看你需要的页面.

Improved pop-up blocker –

Just try it with some nasty popups. We added more intelligence to help weed out even more pop-ups. But since not all pop-ups are created equal, use the trash can to retrieve pop-ups you may want.
搞定一些讨厌的弹出窗口.我们添加一些智能机制帮助扫除更多的弹出窗口.但是为了避免有用的窗口被屏蔽,可以从trash得到你需要的.

Site specific preferences –

For those of you who want to control settings for specific pages. Want to accept some cookies and deny others? How about setting your own style sheet to make the site more accessible? Just right click on the page and select “Site preferences”.
给那些需要对指定页面控制的人.需要接受某些cookies而拒绝别的?如何设置自己的style表单使页面更舒服?只需要右击页面选择”站点选项”

Thumbmail preview –

Opera conserves system resources and uses less memory than other browsers so it’s easy to have many tabs open at once. But just what tab had that video you wanted? Using the thumbnail feature, you can find out by resting the mouse on any tab.
Opera比别的浏览器节省内存,因此可以让你同时打开很多的页面.但是需要快速查看页面内容?使用thumbnail特性,在鼠标放在标签时你可以看到缩略图.

As with any of our technology previews, this is not meant to replace your current version of Opera. That caveat aside, we welcome you to download the TP and let us know what you think.

From: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#win

Opera的确是当之无愧的王者。

From: Slashdot

Opera had always been the “good guys” before Firefox came around and stole the limelight. The company has been run by the same people for ten and a half years by now - the founders - and they’ve had a clear vision. They wanted to bring the web to everyone, to give them choice.

Unlike Mozilla, Opera has always had make money, and that in a situation where they’ve had less than one per cent of the market. So Opera hasn’t been able to take “shortcuts” and rely on donations until it turned out that searches could actually pay for development, alongside other deals of course.

That hurt Opera a bit, I think. You have to pay for Opera while the others were free. Then you could choose ads instead, but most people don’t like those. So Opera never got a huge following.

Opera was also a power user program for many years. It is not until recently that Opera has cleaned up the default user interface to make it easy for newbies to start using it as well.

While the payware, the ads, and so on were necessary to keep the company afloat, it has also hurt Opera. Firefox could come around to steal the thunder at exactly the right time, and backed by a massive marketing campaign. Firefox’s timing was incredible. They released 1.0 when everyone was talking about how dangerous it was to use Internet Explorer.

While Firefox was free as in beer, easy to use, and ready for the masses (more or less), Opera still had to rely on ads, and had to charge for the browser. But they cleaned up the UI, and last year Opera was released for free-as-in-beer.

Some may say “too little too late”, but Opera has never been huge. There isn’t much of a market share to lose! Opera has a small but loyal following, and it’s still smaller, faster, and it has more functionality out of the box than Firefox.

Now that Opera has simplified the UI and removed the ads, it can only grow. It will need proper marketing, though, and it will need to differentiate itself from Firefox and establish an identity which gives people a clear vision of what Opera is about, and why they should use it instead of something else.

Opera has always been the “browser innovator”. Most features in Firefox were available in Opera ages before Firefox did it, and some were even invented by Opera. But these days Firefox takes all the credit, and that’s partly because it can rely on others who have done everything, so it can simply pick and choose from other browsers’ innovations. And it can avoid the pitfalls too, because Firefox already made those mistakes back when it was “Netscape”. Firefox obviously benefits from being Netscape’s “successor”. All web designers know about Netscape, after all. So they can’t ignore it when designing pages.

Opera has done a lot, but one wouldn’t think so just by looking at its market share. It’s a pity, really. Opera was the only independent browser, and they put real money into open standards. IE was Microsoft and Mozilla/Firefox was AOL/Sun/Nokia/IBM/etc. Everyone else was in some major corporation’s pockets, but not Opera.

Now Firefox has stolen the thunder, partly deserved, partly undeserved. But I think Opera can make it too. They just need to get the marketing right.

敬请关注，引入了很多崭新的功能。
更新：下载地址

今天是Opera的十周年庆典，公司免费提供Opera的License。通常的，Opera售价$39，同时它还提供显示广告栏的免费版本。喜欢Opera的兄弟们抓紧时间吧，就要结束了。
http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml

笔记是Opera的一个独特功能，就在丰富多彩的编辑菜单（比如复制和粘贴）下面。它可以让你摆脱在显示器上贴繁多笔记的痛苦。原文参考

什么是笔记？它刚好填补了书签和组之间的空白。找到一个需要收藏的网站？定义书签。需要立刻重建以前的浏览状态？保存为组就可以了。但是如果你还需要别的什么的？

笔记允许你从网站复制文本到侧边栏以备下次查看。ctrl+6可以激活笔记侧边栏。

你是不是经常浏览某些网站时需要下次再来的？可能是一个有趣的故事或者一个不错的技巧，抑或一段语录。你该怎么办？定义书签？当然，但是你下次还能记得你要看什么？（如果你在书签栏用了描述的话也可以的）考虑到网页的一些临时性特点，可能是你要的信息，或者下次会改变，或者打开时该死的报错“404 - 页面无法找到”？你可以打印，但是如果你把花掉纸张的话，你可是在谋杀树木哦。其实你不需要受到良心的谴责，也不需要在桌上放一堆纸。另外，如果在Opera笔记上的话，你可以用“快速查找”来迅速定位。普通的纸张是不能让你快速查找的。

怎么来建立笔记呢？很简单，只要选中一些文本然后点击ctrl+shift+C（Windows）或者+shift+C（mac）。你是不是注意到这个命令跟绝大部分程序普通的复制命令差不多？（Windows中ctrl+c或者Mac中+c）只要加个shift就已复制到笔记了。

在个人信息栏里需要更多的信息（看第二天：Wand选项）？把信息保存在笔记里，然后使用右键-〉“插入笔记”来在页面表格中添加。

你也可以通过“工具-〉笔记”来管理笔记，会激活类似书签和历史的笔记管理页面。

有很多的笔记？归类到文件夹吧。或者不。那就用快速查看吧，选择你需要的看。

改进需求：我希望Opera能够在笔记的底部保存URL，就像“笔记来自http://operalover.tntluoma.com/8/day_19_notes”。或者不同的按键，一个是“复制笔记”，另一个是“复制带URL的笔记”（推荐ctrl/ + alt + c）。（译者：既然可以通过双击笔记回到原来的网页，为什么还需要这个功能呢？或者用来复制到别的程序？）

这里只是笔记的一个简单总结…但是但是我相信还有很多人有一些很有创意的用法。留下你的心得吧！（周末愉快）

Opera的书签栏可以让你管理所有标记的网站。原文参考

跟我们的老朋友-书签-问声好吧。没有书签的话我们该怎么办？我们如何管理找到的网站？当然，如果我们不小心的话，我们的书签会变得让人很不爽。Opera通过提供两种管理我们书签的办法从而成为我们心中的所爱。

Opera8改进了书签管理，在你保存进子目录时排序变得更容易了。并且，如果以前一样，Opera能够让检索和查找书签非常容易。

最最开始的一件事：要收藏一个页面，请点击ctrl（Mac中是）+t，然后你会看到如下的窗口：

名称 

名称通常从页面的<title>获取（也就是你在页面/标签最上面栏看到的那个）。当然需要的话你可以重命名。

如果你收藏了同一个网站的几个页面，而网站本身把域名放在了前面，比如：Example.com - Page Name Here 你可能想把域名放在后面，像这样：Page Name Here (Example.com)。这样的话如果你记得标题的话就可以很容易的找到页面。另外一方面，你可能想把域名放在前面，然后就可以按名称排列和归类书签。选你自己喜欢的（请记住快速查找功能，后面要谈到）。

昵称 

这一项很重要，特别是对于那些你经常访问的页面。比如，我用“8”作为昵称表示http://www.popyard.org. 昵称可以在地址栏（那里可以看到URL）或者F2输入。但是如果你想更快一些的话，试一下shift+F2你会看到：

然后你可以输入相应的昵称，Opera（很聪明的哦）会查找你的书签并找到第一个符合你输入的网址。比如，你有书签被保存为ddoe，myopera 和webmail这样的昵称，然后你只要输入“d”他就会自动匹配这个唯一的书签昵称并且立即载入页面。但是如果你创建了另外一个名为“daring”的书签来标记DaringFireball，你就要对“ddoe”输入“dd”或者对“daring”输入“da”。

地址 

这是输入页面URL（或URI）的地方。正常使用中你不需要编辑它的。

描述 

这一栏会自动填入从meta描述（如果有的话）中获得的内容。需要的话你可以添加/编辑这一栏。为了以后方便搜索的话，加入一些关键词还是很有好处的。

创建入 

这就是你需要保存书签的文件夹。（如果是“书签”，那么就会保存在最外层。）可以用“新建文件夹…”标签来创建文件夹。

在个人栏显示 

以前版本的Opera有一个文件夹可以专门保存在个人栏显示的内容。现在你可以随便保存在哪里，然后只要选中这个框，相应的书签就会显示在个人栏。有些人可能更喜欢以前的办法，因为他们觉得把相应的放在一个文件夹里更容易管理（他们习惯于别的浏览器的做法），但是这种新办法显得更加灵活。

在侧边栏显示 

这个是定义页面为书签的同时把它添加到侧边栏（参考第十四天）。

“这真是太多了！我只是想定义书签，这样是不是太复杂了？”好的，如果你只是想定义一个书签，只要ctrl（或者Mac上）+t然后enter“确定”就可以了。

但是…还要花一点时间说一下，当你定义书签时，最好花几秒钟在书签栏里写一些东西，然后保存到指定的文件夹（为什么保存这个页面？有些以后要看的东西？参考什么？是你进行的课题的一部分?）,这样会为你以后节省很多时间的。

书签栏

ctrl+2（所有平台，包括Mac）可以激活书签栏。

从这里你可以点击添加按钮来添加新书签。点击“添加”下面的“新书签”或者“新文件夹”或者“新分隔栏”（一条水平的用来分隔内容的线）。我想更有趣的是下面的“查看”选项。

查看选项

点击查看按钮你会看到下面的选项：（你不需要精准的奠基向下的箭头来显示下拉菜单）

全部显示

通过一个长的列表显示所有的书签和文件夹。

分隔显示 

把栏分离成上下两部分。上面部分显示高节点的文件夹。下面显示指定文件夹内的书签。 

单文件夹 

一次显示一个文件夹。 

试一下你就会找到最合适的。我个人喜欢分隔显示。

排序

你可以以7种不同的方法对书签排序。这些选项包括：

我的顺序

如果你是奇人或者自由思想家，这个可以让你随便拖动书签的位置。

名称 

如上，除非你保存页面的时候进行了编辑，通常是从<title>获得的网站“名称”。

昵称

如果你对书签定义了昵称，他们就会按照字母顺序排在最上面。

地址 

按URL排序。可以把同组的网站排在一起。

描述 

按描述栏内容的首单词排序。 

创建时间 

按页面第一次的创建时间排序。

访问时间 

按页面最后一次访问的时间排序。

顺序/逆序可以改变向上/向下的排序顺序（比如，正常的“A”在最上面）。

还有，这都取决于个人的喜好。我用名称排序。但是，我承认虽然Opera把一切都变得很容易，给了我们很多的选择，但是我还是不是很有规律。为什么？很简单：快速查找。

快速查找

通过在上面位置输入符合你书签任何部分的内容，Opera的快速查找可以让你即时的找到你需要的。这就是我所谓的“管理”我的书签（或者说，我很懒），输入然后查找。Opera在输入的同时会立刻显示符合的内容（输的越多，搜索的结果越确定）。如果你用过Opera Mail，你就会很熟悉这个功能了，非常的有效。

通过昵称和快速搜索，我的书签虽然很糟，但是还是很容易用。如果你习惯于很好的通过文件夹整理书签的话，你会发现这个其实更容易。

更多的书签管理

如果你需要更多的书签管理，可以在书签的菜单选项中点击“管理书签”，会打开一个扩展的窗口，显示书签的名称，昵称，和地址，在左边显示相应的文件夹。当你需要大规模管理你的书签时，这是一个很好的办法。

书签栏的快捷键

前面我说了，ctrl+2可以打开书签栏。F7会把光标聚焦到列表上（如果光标在快速查找看，你可以开始输入并调到列表上）。shift+tab可以把光标从书签列表移回快速查找栏。