# Anybody Else Using Opera 6.0 Browser?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-using-opera-6-0-browser/95966
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 29, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-using-opera-6-0-browser/95966 "2001-11-29T18:19:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-using-opera-6-0-browser/95966/1 "2001-11-29T18:19:16Z")
Having a slight anti-Micro$oft bias, and being unwilling to allow Netscrape 6.1 suck up all available resources on my machine (yes, I’ve used it, and my machine with a 750 mhz processor and 320 megs of ram bogs down when I’ve tried to run it), I went in search of someone else’s browser to use. I’ve been using Opera 5.12 for the past couple of months and just installed the beta version of 6.0. Its got a few improvements over the earlier version, but it seems to be as glitchy (not horribly so) as the earlier versions. Pages don’t fully load occassionally and there’s a couple of sites that it won’t load at all. Still, I like it. It has features in it that none of the others seem to have (like being able to have multiple home pages). Anybody else out there using it or another version of Opera and what do you think about it?
PS It was the SDMB that got me using this. Back when the server was so freakin’ slow, IE wouldn’t load the pages half the time, but Opera almost always would.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-using-opera-6-0-browser/95966/2 "2001-11-29T18:39:18Z")
Yeah.
Printing the web page results in a postage stamp size thingie.
Merriam WEbster’s site can’t pronounce on Opera.
It still crashes a lot less than Navigator or IE, and goes back to where it was when you restart.
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### Author:  [@cthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cthulhu)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-using-opera-6-0-browser/95966/3 "2001-11-29T18:39:22Z")
Well, i’ve never used Opera, and being kind of a Linux nut, IE is definitely out of the question. Netscape is notoriously resource hogging… Anyway, have you ever taken a look at [http://www.mozilla.org/mozorg.html](http://www.mozilla.org/mozorg.html)? …it’s pretty fast, and available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux x86.
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-using-opera-6-0-browser/95966/4 "2001-11-29T19:58:05Z")
I’m glad to find this thread. I just got Opera 6 - I’m using it to post this reply.
The things currently bugging me are:
1. I can’t figure out how to create a new window to view the page I’m currently on, so I can keep one window on the “starting” page, and use the new one to go somewhere else from that page, so that I can view both of them at the same time. I do this all the time with IE. I love that feature; it’s pretty much the reason I quit using Netscape.
2. I can’t find the cache directory. I’ve done searches for jpeg files, but I don’t find any saved that are from the pages I’ve just visited using Opera. I get the idea it’s not caching them at all.
3. I can’t find the History directory either. I’ve been to the Opera tech support site about this, and they talk about an Opera.ini file that I can’t find. Apparently this is because I installed it from a download or something.
I know this is kind of taking this thread off the IMHO kind of stuff, but I’d really appreciate any pointers anyone can give me. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-using-opera-6-0-browser/95966/5 "2001-11-29T20:27:53Z")
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> 1. I can’t figure out how to create a new window to view the page I’m currently on\*\*
Click “NEW” on the second toolbar down. Leftmost button.
Preferences also lets you select to open a new window from bookmarks.
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> 1. I can’t find the cache directory.
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Me neither.
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> Opera.ini file that I can’t find.\*\*
It puts it in Program files/opera.
It is Opera6.ini
I upgraded, and had Opera.ini in Windows and in Program files/Opera. Confusing.
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### Author:  [@Dilbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dilbert)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-using-opera-6-0-browser/95966/6 "2001-11-29T21:02:02Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Cardinal \*
> **1. I can’t figure out how to create a new window to view the page I’m currently on, so I can keep one window on the “starting” page, and use the new one to go somewhere else from that page, so that I can view both of them at the same time. I do this all the time with IE. I love that feature; it’s pretty much the reason I quit using Netscape.**
Shift Click on the link and it opens it in a new window. You don’t lose your starting page and you don’t have to worry about which link you wanted once you open a new window.
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> **2. I can’t find the cache directory. I’ve done searches for jpeg files, but I don’t find any saved that are from the pages I’ve just visited using Opera. I get the idea it’s not caching them at all.**
At least in opera 5.11 it’s in the “Program Files\Opera\Cache” directory. Mine was named Cache4, and I don’t know why. Or whatever your Cache Directory is set to in your OperaX.ini.
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> **3. I can’t find the History directory either. I’ve been to the Opera tech support site about this, and they talk about an Opera.ini file that I can’t find. Apparently this is because I installed it from a download or something.**
What do you mean the “history directory”? Opera.win stores your current pages, which is uses on reload if that is your setting.
I love Opera, even though it doesn’t have all the plugins, it’s fast and easy.
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-using-opera-6-0-browser/95966/7 "2001-11-29T21:36:45Z")
Shift+ctrl+click opens the new window BEHIND the one you have open. Handy, for links you want to get to later.