tips for Opera users

[john]

Hi Krsnendu,

Yes, Opera under linux appears to support Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calander.

John

On 9/24/07, Krsnendu dasa <krsnendu108 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is Opera compatible with Google (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar)? Last
> time I looked it was not. It is a shame because we rely heavily on the
> Google at our school.
>
>
> On 16/09/2007, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've gone with Opera rather than firefox in an effort to overcome
> > crashing and freezing for folks who use
> > Flash/PulseAudio/libflashsupport
> >
> > I am starting to _really_ like Opera because it allows me to set
> > global settings for all users in ways that are only possible with
> > Pessulus under firefox. It seems like a much more elegant/granular way
> > to do things.
> >
> > In case anyone else is doing this I thought I share a few things that
> > made our transition to Opera easier.
> >
> > 1. Force Opera for users:
> >
> > I made Opera open automagically whenever someone clicks on the Firefox
> > icon or types firefox from a cli. I did this by going to
> > /usr/lib/firefox/
> >
> > and making firefox-bin a symlink to /usr/bin/opera
> >
> > first i moved firefox-bin to firefox-bin.bak then did:
> >
> > rm firefox-bin
> >
> > ln -s /usr/bin/opera firefox-bin
> >
> > 2. By default Opera wants users to use A4 paper instead of Letter
> > which causes us printing problems, so I added the proper papersize,
> > plus some defaults for homepage and startup into the file
> > /etc/opera6rc.fixed like this:
> >
> >
> > ; Put any settings here that are not overridable by users
> >
> > [User Prefs]
> > Home URL=http://google.com
> > Startup Type=2
> >
> > [Printer]
> > # U.S. Letter size
> > PageSize=2
> >
> > here's a great link to learn more about Opera:
> >
> > http://www.opera.com/support/mastering/sysadmin/
> >
> > I hope this is useful to somebody.
> >
> > John
> >
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