April 24, 2007
Opera Speed Dial & Developer Tools
Opera 9.20 just came out. It gives me two more items to add to my “why I use Opera” list:
- speed dial
- developer tools
Initially I was rather reserved when I learned of Opera’s speed dial feature. After all, I had bookmarks didn’t I?
Having now used it for some time I have come around to the idea that it is a real timesaver. There are indeed a few sites that I visit nearly every day, and it is great to be able to bring them up with only a mouse gesture and a single click. For those of you unfamiliar with Opera’s speed dial feauture: when you bring up a new tab presented with
My speed dial now includes links to mostly admin pages, and subscription based sites.
Anything that can save me time by speeding up my workflow is a real bonus, and gets me interested right away.
Developer Tools are great. FireFox already had something similar, and I am very pleased to see Opera having implemented the same, although I would have liked to see them implement an offline version. Right now, an internet connection is needed to load the scripts that power the developer tools. Or is this “offline/online stuff” purely old skool thinking?