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Contents 1 What is Opera? 2 Installing Opera 2.1 Installing via CNR 2.2 Installing via Apt-Get 3 Features 3.1 Tabbed Browsing 3.2 Panels 3.3 Widgets 3.4 Bittorrent 3.5 Skins 4 Opera FAQs / Tutorials 5 Support/Help

What is Opera?

Opera is a web browser that competes against Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. It is developed by Opera Software, based in Oslo, Norway. It runs on a variety of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux systems. It is also used in mobile phones, smartphones, Personal Digital Assistants, game consoles and interactive televisions.It has many unique features such as tabbed browsing, integrated search, skining, Bittorrent, Widgets, Sessions, Fast Forward, E-mail and IRC support. Opera has been released for free download without ads with it's most recent release, Opera 9.

Installing Opera

There are two ways you can install Opera; you can install it from the CNR service and also through the command line tool apt-get.

Installing via CNR

To install it from CNR, simply open up CNR and click on the CNR Warehouse (Install Software) tab. Where it says Search: CNR Warehouse, just type Opera in the textbox and click go. A list will pop up; from here just simply click on the little green running man and it will ask you if you are sure you want to install Opera. Just click OK.

Installing via Apt-Get

To install Opera using apt-get, simply open up the Konsole terminal, and type in:

           sudo apt-get install opera

The terminal will then check the dependencies and ask you if you are sure you want to install this package. Simply enter a Y and it will automatically install the browser for you.

Features

Opera has many features that will be covered here along with how to effectively use them.

Tabbed Browsing

Tabbed browsing has recently become a common feature among all web browsers, and is now available in all major web browsers and internet suites. Opera has a very intuitive interface for tabbed browsing. This concept allows

So what is tabbed browsing? Tabbed browsing is a tool that allows you to open several webpages in a single window, with each web page represented by a tab, similar to tabs of a folder. Each tab has the name of the web page it currently has open along with an X. If you click the X, the tab will close out and go to the next tab. To open a new tab, you can click the New Tab button to the left, below File, or select File -> New Tab.

Panels

Opera's panels, enabled by pressing F4 or by clicking the left edge of the Opera window, give you quick access to your bookmarks, contacts, browsing history, and much more.To add the current page as a Web panel, click "Add Web panel", or click "Get Web panels" to go to the My Opera download section.

Widgets

Opera Widgets are miniature applications that run alongside Opera and live on your desktop. There are widgets for just about any purpose weather forecasts, games, clocks, dictionaries, media players, and much more.

To find and install a new Opera widget, use the Widgets panel or menu and select "Add widget". This will open a Web page where you can search and download widgets that Opera will install automatically.

Bittorrent

Opera comes with built-in support for the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file-distribution protocol that lets you download large files without putting too much strain on one single server, because the download is distributed. When you click a .torrent link, Opera will display a dialog where you can specify which folder you want the file downloaded to. Click "Yes" to start downloading. The BitTorrent preferences can be accessed from the dialog displayed when you start a torrent transfer.

Skins

A skin is a collection of graphics, such as buttons and icons, and instructions used to change Opera's look.Go to Tools > Appearance > Skin to get new skins or manage your currently installed skins.To get a new skin, select "Find more skins", locate a screenshot you like from the displayed list of available skins, then click "Download this skin".When you have confirmed the download, Opera will automatically apply the skin so that you can preview it before deciding whether you want to keep it. If you select not to keep the skin, it will be deleted from your computer by Opera.

Linspire skin for Opera

Freespire skin for Opera

Other skins

Opera FAQs / Tutorials

See Opera browser tips

Tutorials can be found at this page.

Support/Help

Linspire, Inc. provides support for the download and installation phases of 3rd 

party products distributed via the CNR Warehouse.

If you experience any download or installation issues with this software, please use the resources available to you at support.Linspire.com including:

• FAQs
• Community Forums, and
• Ask Linspire, Inc. Support

Post-install and usage questions and support on this product will need to be addressed by the software Publisher / Developer, who determine their own support policies and provide support at their discretion.

For more information and support for this software, please visit the project's page at opera.com.

Other support alternatives you may wish to consider include (a) posting a message on the Freespire Community Forums, (b) attempting to contact the Publisher/Developer directly, or (c) searching the Internet for additional assistance.