Damn poor reporting. Get it right ffs :(
@Richard Reeve
Totally agree. I'm really disappointed by the cruddy journalism going on with respect to Opera's so-called lack of Black/Whitelisting javascript (and other functions) from particular sites, a feature offered (as mentioned many times above) by Edit Site Preferences.
What really irks me though is the almost sincere apology followed by another criticism of the feature which is also wrong. Let me just clear it up for you, Firefox fanboy...
All the functions with respect to enabling and disabling plugins, java, javascript, content blocking, browser identification etc. are available GLOBALLY and PER PAGE/SITE. Changes take effect when any page is NEXT LOADED.
This leads to some very nice behavioural side-effects which the reviewer won't have noticed having spent no more than 30 seconds playing with Opera. For example, I have a custom button which toggles enabling/disabling plugins and javascript. Now, when I quit Opera with 20 tabs open and the button toggled to disabled, and reload Opera - all 20 tabs load up with plugins and scripting disabled by default. So Opera is incredibly light on my CPU from the get-go. Then, I can push the button to enable plugins/scripting, and as I revisit pages that require this function, just hit refresh. The result: scripts and plugins are only enabled on pages where *I* want them. Running on battery, this is a real power saver. On top of this, with site specific overrides for either black- or whitelisting a raft of functions on a per site/page basis, you have a very powerful solution that (typically Opera) integrates into the whole browser functionality nicely.
It might work differently to Firefox et al, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily inferior. Any good reviewer knows that a good review needs a balanced perspective and a willingness to really get into what you're reviewing. Quite clearly this is not the case here. Frankly this sort of thing causes me to question the credibility of TR. If you're messing up so bad with something I know about, what about all the stuff I'm depending upon you to inform me about? Go figure..
Effzee25 :(
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