Useful 3rd party tools to complement TC

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2006-06-20, 07:45 UTC

Here are some more alternatives to Launchy and co. written in AutoHotkey:

320MPH - Ultra Fast Anything-Launcher by Rajat
and
-: Seek :- Launch program quickly & easily by Phi

PS: a quick comparison:
Launchy takes 10M memory here and stays resident;
320MPH when compiled, takes 3M memory and is not resident.

majkinetor ! · Post by *majkinetor ! » 2006-06-20, 08:33 UTC

2SanskritFritz
That kind of thing is out-of-scope of AHK.

Txh for comparison details. It just proove that this thing shouldn't eat more then 1MB of RAM and be larger then 100 K.

SQUIRE · Post by *SQUIRE » 2006-06-20, 08:45 UTC

OPERA 9.0 formally released today guys!

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2006-06-20, 09:42 UTC

OPERA 9.0 formally released today guys!

Oh Jesus, how can they release such a buggy crap as final? Maybe they want to end like Netscape? Just a shame to see a performance wizard turn into a resource hog. Oh, and the classic installer is gone too. F*uckin' MSI crap.

I have downgraded to 8.54 a while ago and actually don't miss too much of the features they implemented to my surprise.

Icfu

majkinetor ! · Post by *majkinetor ! » 2006-06-20, 10:05 UTC

2icfu

Opera 9b works excellent here. It is the best Opera for me. I needed features they implemented for years, it doesn't block so often, per site settings... just great.

Just sometimes CPU goes to 90% and here that is site dependent. I got huge CPU once while zooming MHT page.

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2006-06-20, 10:44 UTC

They have broken cookie management (allow all for one domain, block the rest, enable cookies=6), removed highlighting colours for text search, no backups for bookmark file, crash on low hd space, bad parsing of opera6.adr and big urlfilter.ini files resulting in slow startup speed, hiccups on site scrolling and bookmark expanding.

I could go on and on...

The list of features they have broken is longer than the list of features they have newly invented, that's why I'd call this "final" a regression browser, I'd call the Opera bug treatment a black hole and I'd call the blog a show for Opera addicts, that's it.

Without a BTS, I won't support Opera development anymore, it has just been a waste of time when regarding the result. I am truly disappointed, especially because the developers KNOW that this browser is full of severe bugs and have nevertheless released it.

Icfu

majkinetor ! · Post by *majkinetor ! » 2006-06-20, 13:17 UTC

sounds bad

Go back to Opera 9b2 then. Like I said, i didn't encounter any serious bugs yet, but I didn't test it in extreme conditions. What I know is that highlight works.

Without a BTS, I won't support Opera development anymore

Yes... its pitty.... so many years spoiled by trivial ignorance.

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2006-06-20, 13:21 UTC

Memo to boss: No AHK? No TC!

I'm not sure I got the point

majkinetor ! · Post by *majkinetor ! » 2006-06-20, 13:25 UTC

Well, first memo to boss was : No TC no job!

The boss, finally got it one day.

The next day, new memo was: No AHK, no TC!

That is called, evolution Sans

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2006-06-20, 13:27 UTC

Do I really look that stupid?

PS: beside the fact that I dont believe in evolution, which nowadays makes me look stupid of course

SQUIRE · Post by *SQUIRE » 2006-06-20, 15:27 UTC

Well, I gritted my teeth and upgraded to 9.0 in spite of what icfu said.

Subjectively, I've not noticed any degradation in speed, it seems every bit as quick as before here. The first glitch was the disappearance of the Opera link from the quicklaunch bar, the second was my Flash blocker dying completely. Turns out that scripts in CSS files are now a no, no, in 9.0 so I had to substitute a user Javascript instead and that works fine with minor tweaks. Ad-blocker CSS works normally, thank goodness.

I haven't encountered any traces of excessive CPU cycles, slow load speeds, scrolling problems, or bookmark expansion bugs as yet. Search colours I'm not bothered about, all cookies I trash at session end, and I like that inline search now highlights all occurences of the search term. Torrent search also works OK but I've not tried the client.

MHT files are created fine and open perfectly in IE and FFox, but not in Opera! Why is that? Some setting needed? Try this page (btw great Flash animation here) and see.

So - so far so good at this early stage. I'm not going to burst into tears just yet.

Stance · Post by *Stance » 2006-06-20, 17:04 UTC

[FYI] For your information:

opera.com/download/

wrote: Opera 9.00 for Windows

This release is also available in the classic installer.

(Opera 9 Classic Setup.exe)

Kind regards
Stance

majkinetor ! · Post by *majkinetor ! » 2006-06-20, 18:23 UTC

MHT files are created fine and open perfectly in IE and FFox, but not in Opera

I am still using 9b2 and I didnt have any problems to see MHT files, except ones, when CPU was large on zoom.

SQUIRE · Post by *SQUIRE » 2006-06-20, 22:19 UTC

Humpfh! after lots of fiddling it still doesn't work for me. Opera 9 displays the source code if I force it to open the MHT file that it created itself. IE/FF render it, no problem.

majkinetor ! · Post by *majkinetor ! » 2006-06-21, 07:58 UTC

ImageEye

The fastest image viewer. It will open the image before you click.
I know FMJ soft by their ultra audio convertor AWave witch is the app that can convert almost anything to almost anything when audio formats are in question.

I hope that ImageEye will follow such direction when supported image types are in question:

Link
http://www.fmjsoft.com/imageeye.html