The perfect web broser for
people who like using their keyboard.
The current version is 7.11, which sports a completely new rendering engine from versions 6.x, finally capable of properly handling DOM.
Another wonderful feature of the current versions of Opera is called fast-forward. It automatically searches for words like 'Next' or 'Next page', or else recognizes navigational LINK tags on sites that provide them, and when you hit 'Shift-X', you will go there without having to click the link.
This powerful browser will let you
view the results of searching almost any engine in existence... as long as you've added an entry to your search.ini file.
The easiest way to add new engines to that file is to use the freeware utility Op6sed. This utility gives you a fairly large selection of pre-defined search engines, as well as a simple interface for adding your own.
The key thing you need for any given search engine is string to put in the URL field. This is a string containing '%s' where the browser should insert your search term(s). The following is a list of these terms which I have found useful. Feel free to add your own favorites, or /msg me and I'll add some to this list!
- Everything2
- http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=%s
- Dictionary (provided by Lectrice)
- http://people.opera.com/howcome/2003/2/msn/
- Internet Movie Database
- http://www.imdb.com/Find?select=All&for=%s
- Access URL through Anonymizer
- http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/%s
- Google Cache (great for viewing slashdotted pages)
- http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
- Google Feeling Lucky (immediate jump to top hit)
- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky
- Microsoft Knowledge Base
- http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/psssearch.asp?SPR=msall&T=B&KT=ALL&T1=7d&LQ=
%s&S=F&A=T&DU=C&FR=0&D=support&LPR=&LNG=ENG&VR=http://support.microsoft.com/support;http://support.microsoft.com
/servicedesks/webcasts;http://support.microsoft.com/highlights&CAT=Support&VRL=ENG&SA=GN
- Visoo (finds images, uses OCR)
- http://www.visoo.de/port_result.asp?S1=%s&stype=OCRnURL&people=only&banner=exclude&color=color&color=bw
- Opera Newsgroups via Google (can be modified for any other newsgroups)
- http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&meta=group=opera.*
- GeekTools Whois Lookup
- http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?targetnic=auto&query=%s
- Sourceforge (Software Search)
- http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&exact=1&words=%s
- PalmGear (Palm OS software)
- http://palmgear.com/software/answernew.cfm?quicksearch2=%s
- Ebay Completed Auctions
- http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?ht=1&query=%s&SortProperty=MetaEndSort
- Yahoo Stock Ticker Symbol Lookup
- http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%s