Re: want to upgrade, but ....

At 02:22 8-3-2010 CET, Ruth wrote:
>I'm running Opera 9.62.
>Lots and lots of bookmarks, notes, widgets, and all the settings the 
>way I like 'em.
>but I'm wanting to upgrade to the most recent release (10.50 isn't it?).
>I know I can save and/or move the bookmarks, notes, other files 
>(done it before).
>Will upgrading OVER my current installation 'convert' anything, that 
>would make it difficult to go back to 9.62 if I'm not happy with the upgrade?
>I know I can put it in a new folder and do it as a new installation, 
>but I really don't want that.  One 'puter I had about 7 differernt 
>Opera installations, and don't want to do that again.
>So will upgrading make it impossible to go back?


I really do not think there is much chance that you will not like 
your new Opera. As I write this, I am still running 10.10 on my 
laptop, but I have installed 10.50 on my netbook. 10.10 was easily 
the best Opera so far, really a big advance on 9.6x in my experience 
- so that even if I had had to fiddle about to get things right, it 
would have been worth it. One of the really great things about 10.10 
and 10.50 is the automatic synchronization of bookmarks between your 
various computers (of course, I don't know if you use more than one). 
Yesterday my girlfriend wanted to send me a message on my laptop, but 
she received a message to say it was offline - but my netbook wasn't, 
so why not send her message to that!? Fantastic. I am sure you will 
love Opera Unite, and there are some great user Javascript 
applications you can install (first of all, take the User JS 
installer app, which makes installing any further UJS apps an 
absolute doddle), either from the Opera site or from 
http://extendopera.org/ . My favourites are the Google pager, which 
automatically loads the next page of Google hits when your scrolling 
reaches the bottom of the page, and the dynamic image sizer, which 
automatically resizes images to fit the screen but allows you to 
single-click for the full-size image or double-click for vertical 
fitting, great for looking at panoramas as if you were turningn your 
head, rather than as a single image. None of these things are avialble on 9.6x.

One thing I found very odd about 10.50 was that by default the main 
menu was not installed. Maybe this is because the program knew I was 
running it on a small-screen computer (1024 x 600 instead of 768, so 
one can see the logic of saving a bit of height), but not installing 
the main menu seems very odd to me, especially as I could find no 
reference to how to install it. Eventually someone on the Developers 
Blog pointed the way.

So why haven't I installed 10.50 on my latpop? Just because I first 
want to be sure it works OK on the netbook. At present I am working 
(i.e. doing my job as a translator) on  the laptop, so I really don't 
want anything going wrong. (Not that correct running on one 
necessarily means correct running on the other, of course...) And of 
course when I get home I shall be installing it on my desktop computer too.

HTH
Harry
PS The developers blog is well worth following! 
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

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