Opera

Opera is a free, fast, efficient web-browser. It possesses advanced options such as custom search engines (which allow to perfom POSTs). Other interesting options are the Opera slideshow.

Some features:

• custom search engines
• shortcuts
• email client
• contacts manager
• feeds manager
• downloads manager
• slideshow
• widgets repository

Its process will stay below the 180MB slice of memory.

Opera syncing method in windows

Pre-requisites:

• An svn client,
• A web-based svn repository.

Step 1

• Create a new svn repository somewhere on the web (I use google code),
• Import your profile files. Here's an extensible list:
  • search.ini
  • speeddial.ini
  • opera6.adr
  • contacts.adr
  • notes.adr
  • opcacert6.dat
  • opcert6.dat

Step 2

Now, instead of running Opera from the start menu icon, run a batch file that will checkout the opera profile files with the web-based repo before running Opera. And after closing Opera, the batch file will commit the files back on the repo.

Here's a batch file that allows to sync your opera profile.

REM OperaSync2.bat
@echo off

set TARGET=C:\Documents and Settings\Guillaume\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile
set PROG=Opera
set EXEC=C:\Programas\Opera\%PROG%.exe
set REPO=https://preopmodel.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/%PROG%Sync
set USER=

echo Checking out from %REPO% ...
svn checkout %REPO% "%TARGET%" --username %USER%
echo %PROG% running ...
%EXEC%
echo Commiting to %REPO% ...
svn commit -m --force-log "%TARGET%"
echo Done.

@echo on

Other Links:

• TortoiseSvn,
• Google code. Good for hosting svn repos.

External References

• Opera home page.