Praising Opera 9

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> writes:

> Alf-Ivar Holm schrieb:
>> Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> writes:
>>
>>> Does Opera finally have something that's at least as good and easily
>>> usable as Adblock+ on Firefox?
>> Click button 3 (X terminology-ish), choose "Block content ...",
>
> Hm. I've got no "Block content ...". See http://www.myimg.de/?img=Operav9Clickwith3rdButtononeBa.jpg
>
> To get this menu, I clicked with the right mouse button on the eBay Logo.
> If I click with the middle mouse button, the URL from the "clipboard"
> is loaded in the current Tab.
>
> But when I go to Preferences -> Content -> Blocked Content, I see
> that I could add sites there: http://www.myimg.de/?img=Operav9PreferencesBlockedconte.png
>
> How can I block content without having to resort to the site from which
> the content comes? 

The menu is not on the "image menu", but on the "page menu", ie. 3rd
click somewhere on the page that is not occupied by an image or plugin.

> Say, I don't want to see any content which has a 'class="banner"'
> attribute in the HTML tag. How to do that?

I don't think that is possible.  

>> on the ads you don't want to see, click "Done", the ads are removed
>> and the page resizes, unless the ad is contained in a fixed container
>> of some sort.  Looks a bit similar to the Flashblock in Firefox's
>> Adblock.  Which is better or more usable is up to you.
>
> If Opera only has this "Blocked Content" dialog, than I'd say that
> Adblock is *WAY* better. The blocked content thing is just one part
> of what Adblock+ has to offer.

Indeed.  I was just trying to explain how to do the blocking in Opera,
and I think it is very easy to use, especially since it magically adds
wildcards.  I were not aware of the extra features of Adblock as it is
not something I was aware of by just using it, ie. had to RTFM.

When it comes to ads, one of my reason for using Opera has for a long
time has been that it has been very easy to enable/disable GIF
animation and plugins, as that is the noisiest part of pages, to me.
But in Opera 9 they have added support for SVG animation, and
disabling that doesn't work for me.  (Haven't got the time to file a
bug report on that yet.)  To remove the add altogether is of course
the best solution, and you have given some examples of even more
advanced possibilities.

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