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November 10, 2010 · by Aleksander Aas

Handy Opera Extensions

The nice people over at Download Squad posted a sweet article about their favorite Opera extensions. From NoAds to StumbleUpon all your favorite extensions are there!

Even if you haven't tried the alpha yet, it's an interesting read about what extensions you can expect to see when Opera 11 reaches final. If on the other hand you are one of the alpha testers we would love to know your favorite extensions!

Readers' comments 37

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  • AsiresWednesday, November 10, 2010 2:04:35 PM

    Already read it.. Great article.

  • TamilWednesday, November 10, 2010 2:06:00 PM

    :up:

  • Charles SchlossWednesday, November 10, 2010 2:22:09 PM

    :up:

  • PaulWednesday, November 10, 2010 2:32:35 PM

    9ice

  • dirkWednesday, November 10, 2010 2:56:45 PM

    :cool:

  • Charles HoganWednesday, November 10, 2010 3:15:45 PM

    Hey there,

    Being one of those "Alpha Testers" , I can tell you right away the two Extensions that are already my favorite extensions.The First Place winner for me is the youtube video downloader. I use this extension, which palaces a download button on the youtube player, to save vids to my hard drive for later use.

    My Second favorite is YR.no forecast. This nice little Extension can retrieve detailed weather real time weather information from anywhere in the world at the click of a mouse :yes:

  • sirnh1Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:22:25 PM

    I currently don't really have a favorite extension (although I do like PageTranslator), but I'm still hoping for something like treestyletabs (see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890/ isn't available). Altough think it's not possible yet...

  • AercyWednesday, November 10, 2010 3:34:08 PM

    Originally posted by RomDos:

    The First Place winner for me is the youtube video downloader. I use this extension, which palaces a download button on the youtube player, to save vids to my hard drive for later use.

    My Second favorite is YR.no forecast. This nice little Extension can retrieve detailed weather real time weather information from anywhere in the world at the click of a mouse


    same. very useful exts

  • deniz chavezWednesday, November 10, 2010 3:34:29 PM

    i want it on my mobile.-sad-

  • André KolbWednesday, November 10, 2010 3:40:09 PM

    :yes:

  • MorphdreamerWednesday, November 10, 2010 3:44:31 PM

    @sirnh1 Opera already has something similar built-in. Open panels, click on "+" and select "Windows". I know it not exactly the same, but it's still pretty useful.

  • sirnh1Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:59:09 PM

    Originally posted by Morphdreamer:

    @sirnh1 Opera already has something similar built-in. Open panels, click on "+" and select "Windows". I know it not exactly the same, but it's still pretty useful.


    I know, but treestyletabs does more then just that. Treestyletabs doesn't require multiple windows. For example when searching google I open 4 tabs in the background. Treestyle tabs will create the newly opened tabs as 'child-tabs' of the google tab inside that same window. Treestyletabs also works with more then 'only' 2 levels...

  • d4rkn1ghtWednesday, November 10, 2010 5:40:02 PM

    :up:

  • QuHnoWednesday, November 10, 2010 6:39:29 PM

    What they didn't write in the article is, that many of the Fx Extensions are not needed, because the functionality is built in.

    Originally posted by RomDos:

    .The First Place winner for me is the youtube video downloader. I use this extension, which palaces a download button on the youtube player,


    I still use the userJS that does the same in my main Opera 11 install - as I do for some of the other extensions. On my pure geeky test install of Opera 11 I use extensions and have got several errors, when it comes to localStorage and scriptStorage, I think the Extension API still needs some polishing, especially the timing when it comes to events ...

  • AndyWednesday, November 10, 2010 11:58:01 PM

    favorite is the "share on facebook" extension..

  • gulsharifThursday, November 11, 2010 2:34:35 AM

    Do what you can do

  • Pallab DeThursday, November 11, 2010 7:12:31 AM

    Here's another list of top Opera extensions.

    http://techie-buzz.com/browsers/top-extensions-for-opera-11.html (Not written by me)


    My favs are the QR Box, Translate, Translator, Security Enhancer and StumbleUpon.
    The translate plugin is really sweet, but misfires a lot and needs more options.
    I am also waiting for the last pass add-on to show up (its under dev.).

  • Pallab DeThursday, November 11, 2010 7:16:52 AM

    Originally posted by Charles Hogan:

    The First Place winner for me is the youtube video downloader. I use this extension, which palaces a download button on the youtube player, to save vids to my hard drive for later use.


    This one is actually a port of a popular userjs.Even users of older versions of Opera can get it.
    See: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105
    http://www.pallab.net/2010/04/26/one-script-to-rule-them-all-download-hd-youtube-videos-in-opera-firefox-chrome-safari-and-internet-explorer/

    But obviously, extensions make things easier.

  • imboxThursday, November 11, 2010 6:17:43 PM

    Page with extensions needs to be changed (quite difficult to browse all ex. ) especially later when there will be more of them

  • Daniel BandaThursday, November 11, 2010 6:46:07 PM

    :love:

  • Cutting SpoonFriday, November 12, 2010 1:50:56 AM

    There's a good translation script on extendopera. (translates highlighted text into the address bar) I wonder if the new support for third-party trusted repositories will encourage them to also offer an extension database?

    As per extensions in 11, both weather apps are nice. Application panels (like Wikipedia) still function better as Panelized bookmarks. The Fastesttube extension works very well. But having several extensions up has caused problems with a few websites, and I haven't been able to narrow down what's doing it.

    Also, incorporating webp content-type support would be great.

  • Raja PandianFriday, November 12, 2010 4:05:19 AM

    I want to download a new, latest version of opera browser for my micromax Q6 mobile, how can I download it.

  • deniz chavezFriday, November 12, 2010 4:49:05 AM

    i used my operamini for free in my fon for almost 2 weeks till now.:)i love it..

  • brenda leeFriday, November 12, 2010 3:56:03 PM

    it was great even do am new here i find it convenient

  • VladimirSaturday, November 13, 2010 11:30:04 PM

    Just downloaded it. Looks cool. Runs fast enough. And the ability to customize it is smthn I wanted for a long time now(not that there weren't enough built in features). :smile::yes:

    Oh, but user JS cache did scare me... Hope it goes away some time next release :smile:

  • PaulSunday, November 14, 2010 6:17:42 AM

    how i download it!!!!!!

  • Stephen TurrellMonday, November 15, 2010 3:05:36 PM

    Some great extensions available but
    some are very simple YR.no forecast just links to the website, its a very good weather service but I can just bookmark it & call it up with a nickname. The same goes for opera:config
    The Google Translate bookmarklet is available at
    http://translate.google.com/translate_buttons
    The PageTranslator extension is preferred because it looks better.

    One extension I'd love to have is Readability by
    http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ the bookmarklet used to work but is broken in Opera 11.

  • Dustin WilsonMonday, November 15, 2010 9:37:46 PM

    My favorite user javascript was always my friend MTKnight's imagesizer. He's since made it into an extension called Make It So. Probably my favorite extension now.

    Many of the extensions are better suited as either custom searches (like page translate) or Web panels, but it's nice to have choice.

  • Wacha McdonaldTuesday, November 16, 2010 8:13:03 AM

    Its very comfortable to be here.

  • MorphdreamerTuesday, November 16, 2010 8:39:21 AM

    Originally posted by stve10:

    One extension I'd love to have is Readability by
    http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ the bookmarklet used to work but is broken in Opera 11.


    There is readability extension, but it doesn't work in last two snapshots:
    http://my.opera.com/QuHno/blog/arc90-based-readability-extension-for-opera-11/

  • Rabindra SinghWednesday, November 17, 2010 5:01:32 PM

    The world is in the hands of those who have courage to dream & dare to realize their own dream with act.

  • RobertThursday, November 18, 2010 12:27:24 PM

    What's your most used Opera 11 extension guys?

  • jayarajFriday, November 19, 2010 7:50:55 AM

    :up:

  • pratisharshSunday, November 21, 2010 7:37:13 PM

    :wink: handy extensions n using them will d alpha version was looking for this change in opera.

  • Johnny GameMonday, November 22, 2010 4:45:07 PM

    :left:

  • Tilahun AshenafiTuesday, November 23, 2010 5:12:07 PM

    At this moment,We,the world, need a foundamental revolutionist, like Che Guvera.

  • Nicolás AgustínWednesday, November 24, 2010 2:12:17 AM

    Lol, Che Guevara, not Che Guvera.

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Published inChoose Opera
DateNovember 10, 2010
AuthorAleksander Aas
Tagsextensions, opera 11, downloadsquad
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