[OU] Dumb newbie questions

[Ledgem]

Welcome to Opera! I'd imagine that Opera can handle a lot of what you're asking for.

For the tab behavior, if I understand your request correctly this might fix it. Go to preferences > Advanced > Tabs, and uncheck "Reuse current tab."

For importing email I'm not 100% positive - I've always found importing and exporting email between programs to be a chore. I once read that going from Opera to Thunderbird was very easy and merely involved copying files over - it might be just as simple when doing it the other way. Have you tried Google for a solution on this? (Hopefully someone else on the list can help you here.)

HTML email composition is unsupported. I believe the developers had a reason for it, but I don't want to state untruths. As far as I know there are no plans to add it into any versions in the immediate future, but who knows - maybe farther down the road. You get used to it.

I believe it's possible to change the size of text alone, but when I saw your request I thought of zooming entirely. The command is command shift + and command shift - (just as a reminder, if you enable OSX's zoom feature, the commands are command alt + and command alt -). Using those commands will boost or lower the zoom by 100%. If you click on the glasses icon in the upper right (I believe this is the default layout) another menu bar should appear, including a box with a percentage. You can manually determine by what percentage the zoom should go from there. It won't adjust the text alone, though, it'll also zoom images. This isn't available in email - I'd recommend using Mac OS X's built-in zoom feature for that.

Lastly, I don't know of any on-the-fly spellchecking functionality in Opera. Perhaps in the future...

Hope it helps,
David

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:16:03 -0800, W. Robert Newberry, IV <wnewber at clemson.edu> wrote:

> All,
>
> I'm brand spankin' new to Opera, so play nice; I'm switching from
> Safari/FireFox/Omni/Thunderbird, and some of the behaviors I've come to
> expect from a browser/mail client aren't there. I've looked in the FAQ,
> the list archives, and the Knowledge base for answers to these questions
> with no success; if there's a resource I should be looking in but have
> missed, please tell me where it is and I'll go search it too. I'm on a Mac
> G5 Dual 2 GHz, running Leopard (X.V.II).
>
> Tab behavior - When I open a bunch of tabs (which I do) I'm used to the
> browser simply going to the next tab. Opera always wants to go back to the
> same tab; this is frustrating because I often want to cycle through tabs
> quickly, closing them as I go.  Is there a way to tweak the prefs to get
> Opera to do this? I've tried, but I can't make it work that way.
>
> Importing Thunderbird Mail. Omni doesn't import TB 2.0.0.9. For various
> and sundry reasons I have to keep every work related email I ever sent or
> received, now going back to 1995. Thats some 30,000 messages, and I need
> to be able to search them. Importing my archived emails is vitally
> important.
>
> HTML Mail composition. Opera really needs to support composing html
> emails. Email is such a limited method of communicating and conveying
> meaning, misunderstandings are rife; being able to emphasize text helps
> (and I need all the help I can get). In line pics would be nice, too.
>
> Changing the font size in webpages and emails. My eyes aren't what they
> once were, and I'd like to be able to enlarge type easily. Opera doesn't
> seem to support the Mac's default command+ and command- to enlarge and
> shrink font size.
>
> Oh, and I'd really like on the fly spell checking, too. Is there a way to
> enable this?
>
> That's it so far - stay tuned...