The Opera 5.X Book: Browsing the Web with Speed and Style - Softcover

Lyster, J.S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886411476 ISBN 13: 9781886411470

Publisher: No Starch Press,US, 2001

Synopsis

Opera is faster and more compact, configurable, and standards-compliant than most browsers. That and a new email feature make Opera 5.x a strong contender in the browser market. Experienced Web browsers and power surfers will learn to take full advantage of Opera's surprisingly powerful capabilities, including how to open multiple windows without running out of memory, retrieve multiple documents simultaneously, and navigate entirely with the keyboard. The CD-ROM includes trial versions of Opera 5.x for all platforms, as well as many additional utilities like Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0, and demos of Shockwave Flash 4 and GetRight, Opera File Explorer, and Opera Windows Controller.

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Review

Opera may be the best browser you've never heard of and all is explained here in The Opera 5.X Book. Designed with efficiency in mind--Opera consumes less hard-disk space and memory than other browsers and completes network transactions with minimal overhead--Opera boasts more than 2 million users. It's not stripped down either: Opera supports Java and JavaScript and uses the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) to let you show multiple Web pages in a single browser window. The Opera 5.x Book introduces Opera via its Windows version but the interface is so similar under all supported platforms that the instructions hold up well across all. An excellent index makes it easy to find facts and procedures, and even includes plenty of error messages, so it's easy to find explanations for them.

Author JS Lyster, who has helped test and refine Opera for several years, assumes little knowledge on the part of readers and documents everything, down to the most obscure keyboard shortcut, in detail. Opera's simplicity of design and intuitively useful interface may make some of the coverage seem unnecessary but that's the nature of comprehensive documentation. Lavishly illustrated and peppered with references to specialised utilities and plug-ins, this book is, like its subject, full-featured but invariably efficient. --David Wall

Topics covered: The Opera 5.x family of efficient Internet tool suites (Opera is a browser and a mail/news client). Chapters address installation under Windows, browser customisation, electronic mail and newsgroup configuration, Java, helper applications and the special considerations of having multiple users use a single copy of Opera.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Starch Press,US
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1886411476
• ISBN 13: 9781886411470
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308