Opera 9 goes Universal

joel, i was obviously talking about the old version of opera, before this version 9

Well, I've done everything I can think of, and I've still not discovered how to find the "preferences" location. i.e. to save a home page etc.... Opera 9 on an iMac PPC G5 any help out there?

To get back to that old ctrl+n for a tab, if anyone besides myself got used to it (and call firefox the non-corforming browser)

Tools->Preferences->Shortcuts
Select Opera Standard
Click Edit
Find the n ctrl
Change it to "New Page, 1"

Back to the old ctrl+n for a new tab, the way its meant to be :)

thats great then, too bad they had to change the way they do tabs but its for the best in the long run.

I can't seem to get any plug-ins to work in Opera 9. (No Flash, No quicktime etc)
Anyone else have this issue?

^opera on mac is slow as hell... I've been opera fan on my PC desktop for couple of years but when I use my mac-s (power mac G5 on work, power book G4 on the go) the only choice is FireFox (with lot's of extensions to have some sort of opera look and feel)... maybe opera 9 runs great on new intel machines... I hope so...

PS google browser sync is the only thing that I miss in opera... It's the best extension out there

Kevin - Opera recently changed the terminology to "tabs" instead of "pages" (I think in 8.5), and they now use Cmd-t for new tab instead of Cmd-n as it indeed was before. This was mainly done to placate Firefox users and future IE7 users, however it is debatable whether this was that obvious a choice to make - as Opera pretty much defined the way tabbed browsers should work, with Mozilla being the first ones to deviate. Imagine it like Apple finally giving in and making ReturnEnter launch the selected file in Finder.

It's worth noting that changing the shortcuts takes a matter of minutes in Opera's extensive keyboard shortcut panel. I personally use the old ones (Cmd-N for new tab) as they make more sense to me. Also, Opera does do tabs better than the competition - it's very robust (100+ tabs do not cause a problem), the tab bar can be organised in several different ways, it's had draggable tabs for years, new features like lockable tabs, features to duplicate or create linked tabs, strong support for sessions (workspaces in Omniweb), etc etc. Try it out, it's a lot more mature than the tab systems of other browsers and feels that way, too.

Opera's doing really well on the Mac now, I think anyone who finds Safari a bit too limiting (this includes those that mess with Saft, or use Camino with Camitools, etc) should go check out Opera and see if it suits them better. Its interface is still a bit plain, but it's infinitely more customisable, offers way more features than even Omniweb and is in most respects smaller and faster than the competition.

opera version 8.54
open app
press cmd + t
it bookmarks a page for me
press cmd + n
it creates a new tab

i didnt miss anything did i?

kevin,

VW is correct. CMD+T for new tab, CMD+N for new window.

VV, are you stupid? what facts? unless they corrected this in the new version, it was always command + n for a new tab.