Soapbox on Opera

I just got a beta invitation for msn new videoservice Soapbox. I must say that the site is very blue. That is actually the only thing I can see. Well except if I choose view source. Then I can defintly see that there should be text on this site.

I am running Opera 9.02 on ubuntu dapper drake.

With firefox I get a page telling me to use the latest flash player which of course does not exist on Linux.

The site works with windows versjon of firefox with flashplayer 9 runned with wine.

Opera filter.ini

This is the filter.ini file I use in Opera to wash out stupid ads. Create a filter.ini in the opera root folder.

[prefs]
prioritize excludelist=1

[include]
*

[exclude]
http://ad.*
http://ads.*
http://adserv*
http://banner*
http://count*
http://*.doubleclick.net/*
http://*.hitbox.net/*
http://*.ivwbox.de/*
http://*.tradedoubler.*
http://*/ads/*
http://*/Ads/*
http://*/banners/*
http://flash.vg.no/annonser/*
http://track.adform.net/*
http://annonser.*
http://*/annonser/*


Opera 9

I tried to test a beta version of Opera 9 on ubuntu a month ago. It was a disaster. Everytime I tried to start opera then I got a segmentation fault error in the console. Rolling back to 8.5 did not fix this and I was forced to use Firefox which I hate. Even after installing some extensions to get some of the Opera built in features back. Firefox is just toooooooooo slow.

Guess I was happy when the production release of Opera 9 started without any problems. I grabbed the release from the opera website

First I checked out was the widgets. Not to many useful widgets available yet, but I did found a couple for collective transport in Norway which is very useful.

Next I checked out was the built in bittorrent client. It got very limited functionality and is difficult to configure. You need to type opera:config in the address bar if you want to limit your upload speed, which I frequently need to do since my router dont have QoS for VOIP trafic. But it downloads and uploads data and Im sure that other browsers will copy Opera again. Yeah listen Firefox and IE. You are just copy cats.