Description:
Opera may be the best browser you've never heard of. Designed with efficiency in mind--it consumes less hard-disk space and memory than other browsers, and it completes network transactions with minimal overhead--Opera boasts more than two 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 a lot of error messages, so it's easy to find explanations for them. Author J.S. 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 specialized 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 customization, electronic mail and newsgroup configuration, Java, helper applications, and the special considerations of having multiple users use a single copy of Opera.
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