[OU] [Feature request] passwd to protect opera mailer

[Ledgem]

I second Malcolm's wish, although not for the same reason. The Opera startup time doesn't bother me too much - overall it's not much slower than other applications on my system (if it could be said to be slower at all). One use that I could see for being able to load the mailer separately after Opera had loaded is to activate the low-bandwidth mode. As it stands, you can't activate low bandwidth mode until Opera has started, yet once Opera has started it immediately begins checking email. There are ways around that and likely different usage patterns for low-bandwidth mode, but I think it'd be pretty nifty.

I'm also not sure what the benefit of having the mailer integrated is. Netscape Navigator (from way back when) kept Navigator (the browser) and Communicator (the email client) separate. IE and Outlook are separate; Firefox and Thunderbird are separate; Safari and Mail are separate. I enjoy being able to have inboxes, RSS, and composed messages as tabs within the browser, but I'm not sure that I'd totally miss those features if M2 could run in its own, somewhat separate instance. Does anyone else have any thoughts about that?

Happy Holidays,
David

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:44:24 -0500, Malcolm Austen <malcolm.austen at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:51:21 -0000, anhnmncb <anhnmncb at sina.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I need a passwd for protecting my opera mailer from other's touching.
>
> As it's probably not entirely dissimilar, here's an item from my wish list
> ...
>
> As M2 makes Opera so very slow to start up, it would be nice to have two
> ways to start up Opera - one as now and one that starts up the web browser
> with M2 off-line.
>
> I think I'm fundamentally asking for M2 and the brower to have separate
> on/offline states. It would be specifically nice to have Opera start up
> with M2 offline when it is auto launched from Windows (e.g. double-click
> on an html file). It's a real pain when an application uses HTML help to
> have to wait several minutes for the help to appear on the screen
>
> Happy New Year, Malcolm.
>