Opera 11 and extensions

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Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.

• IKoke14. October 2010, 08:37

  

• pursanovd14. October 2010, 08:38

  HEHEEe!! Very, Very nice! This actions may boost Opera's popularity! Congratz, and waiting for 1st alpha builds with new things to taste and test

• Morphdreamer14. October 2010, 08:41

  Sweet, can't wait to test it myself!

• WillYum14. October 2010, 08:45

  Wow. WTG Opera -- it's fascinating idea. Can't wait to get more.

• asfaltas14. October 2010, 08:47

  wow opera 11 alpha waiting for test this new build thanks opera team

• Obese Maurice14. October 2010, 08:47

  Awesome. I hope that this happens really soon, I want to test it!
  
  Oh and I'm expecting hardware acceleration too!

• Ramkumar Shankar14. October 2010, 08:48

  Fantantic news! Extensions probably was the last gap between Opera and the other browsers. And this will certainly give Opera a huge boost.

• Kyle Baker14. October 2010, 08:48

  w00t!

• Mark14. October 2010, 08:49

  Not that bothered about extensions really. It leads to incompatibilities, instabilities and security issues.
  
  However the upside will be that more people will look at Opera. The real shame is they should be looking at Opera anyway.

• Robert9014. October 2010, 08:50

  Now Opera Mobile for Android gets/has HA, can we expect it for desktop too?
  
  And I surely think extensions is a good idea (altough I think I won't use them that much) because you see a lot of complaints about Opera that it doesn't have an extension API

• Александр Карпинский14. October 2010, 08:52

  When first alpha?

• Daniel Hendrycks14. October 2010, 08:59

  Multi-Process, for security, right?

• mrd14. October 2010, 09:00

  I guess it was a matter of time given the way every other browser was going.
  
  It will take some *very* compelling extensions for me to go down that path but hey, if it does anything to increase popularity and marketshare of Opera... without sacrificing functionality and stability then I'm all for it.

• Vlad Saling14. October 2010, 09:01

  Great news!! Cannot wait.

• styxmp14. October 2010, 09:02

  Cool of course, but no 10.70 final and again alphas. Need to buy some valerian

• bleicher14. October 2010, 09:02

  looks like mainstream won - would be nice to hear some statements concerning security.
  firefox got some spyware extensions and some insecure FFextensions were installed by 3d party software "silent"
  is Opera going to have some kind of protection? e.g. password protection for installation of addons, security-status reports (insecurefeatures of addons listing) etc.?

• protion914. October 2010, 09:05

  Extensions are a really good idea, but please, be careful with the security, performance and stability. All we know the problems of Mozilla with its extensions...

• hurug14. October 2010, 09:11

  Warmly welcome

• Martin14. October 2010, 09:12

  Hope they put the accent on security before friendliness when talking about extensions. Wouldn't want my opera to be filled with "bars" like IE or insecure with "silent" extension installations like it happened with FF.
  Not having that kind of problems is the reason I use Opera in the first place.

• Mascot14. October 2010, 09:18

  What will be the relation between userJS, OperaWidgets and the new Extensions? Will these be unified into one technology?

• TigTex14. October 2010, 09:18

  I don't use extensions, I only need the integrated content blocker but extensions will probably make opera more popular.
  Just make sure that extensions won't slowdown the browser and have a master extension button, to disable them all.
  And please, hardware acceleration!

• Diamond0074414. October 2010, 09:23

  Please add toolbars to Opera 11

• pieRr0Ur14. October 2010, 09:26

  

• mrd14. October 2010, 09:28

  Yeah the extensions framework needs to ship turned off by default and have an easy way to flip that status. I'd even suggest - depending on the level of extensibility you're going with - that you allow an enable/disable per site (which is overruled downwards by the master setting)
  
  And never let any place - not even my.opera install them silently.
  
  But hey, progress I guess. Even if it's progress to play "catch up" with other barebones, feature-poor browsers that need extensions to make them complete.

• Scorpion201214. October 2010, 09:29

  
  Awesome News. Looking Forward to Opera 11

• Irontiger14. October 2010, 09:30

  Perhaps some kind of Android market overview (which components are used by an extension). But additionally the ability to block some rights for an extension so it can't spy your privacy.

• Justas14. October 2010, 09:32

  OMG, this is going to be awesome!

• Damian Stępnik14. October 2010, 09:36

  SUPER

• SteveKong14. October 2010, 09:40

  At least we won't have anymore complaints about Opera lacking extensions. Although I am using them neither on FF, Sa nor Ch...

• Krio Lyth14. October 2010, 09:47

  Originally posted by SteveKong:

  At least we won't have anymore complaints about Opera lacking extensions. Although I am using them neither on FF, Sa nor Ch...

  
  I'm sure there will be other complaints, like "my extension is not working in Opera!" - just like "my page is not shown correctly in Opera"

• xoed14. October 2010, 09:53

  Yupi. Adblock plus will be alive.

• sabisan14. October 2010, 09:57

  Cheers to Opera team for great news !

• vasstr14. October 2010, 09:59

  so we will be allowed to know letter under mouse via extensions or it will be same useless, like opera userscripts?

• vasstr14. October 2010, 10:02

  so we will be allowed to write socks proxy extension or it will be like last five years of ignorance?

• Maciej Tarmas14. October 2010, 10:11

  Good news.
  
  Now could you please consider providing the M2 client, Unite, Widgets and IRC as separate extensions rather than keeping the functionality built in? I imagine that I'm not the only one who finds it useless in every day use.

• Adrien14. October 2010, 10:13

  Good news as some people argues one mistake is the lack of extensions.
  Now they will be able to make their own, making their browsing experience more like they want.
  
  Cheers,

• bachokocho14. October 2010, 10:16

  Originally posted by mrd:

  Yeah the extensions framework needs to ship turned off by default and have an easy way to flip that status.
  
  And never let any place - not even my.opera install them silently.
  
  But hey, progress I guess. Even if it's progress to play "catch up" with other barebones, feature-poor browsers that need extensions to make them complete.

  
  I couldn't say it better
  Eventually the business aspect prevails and I wish you guys good luck! I have already all I need with Opera

• kollitaja14. October 2010, 10:24

  For desktop we have showcased extensions which will be part of the Opera 11 release.
  
  
  
  Nice

• rdsu14. October 2010, 10:29

  Great News!!!

• Onegin Evgeniu14. October 2010, 10:37

  please add hardware acceleration to Opera 11

• lshk14. October 2010, 10:46

  Under what number should I expect "Opera and interface"?

• Aux14. October 2010, 10:51

  Extensoins, extension... Where is hardware acceleration promised years ago?

• Saribro14. October 2010, 10:52

  Originally posted by Tarmas:

  Now could you please consider providing the M2 client, Unite, Widgets and IRC as separate extensions rather than keeping the functionality built in? I imagine that I'm not the only one who finds it useless in every day use.

  
  Yes please .

• Yowanvista14. October 2010, 10:52

  Please implement H/W acceleration and a 64-bit version

• Floriano Ferreira14. October 2010, 11:00

  Make Chrome extensions compatible, please

• Leonhard Preis14. October 2010, 11:02

  YES!
  
  So, what's about PGP/GPG for M2? Will we be able to implement it as an extension?

• Day14. October 2010, 11:03

  Originally posted by clashcityrocker:

  Not that bothered about extensions really. It leads to incompatibilities, instabilities and security issues.
  However the upside will be that more people will look at Opera. The real shame is they should be looking at Opera anyway.

  
  +1

• AgentCROCODILE14. October 2010, 11:06

  I'm wondering if this will allow Opera Unite to run as an extension? Modular Opera might be a possibility then.
  
  Of course, Firefox has extensions. But, what Firefox can do, Opera can do better.

• Muhammad Ubaid raza14. October 2010, 11:06

  Hurrraaayyyy... Love <3 Opera...

• cyb14. October 2010, 11:07

  Was about to write something about the mail client and GnuPG too, but I noticed your post above, Leonard Preis.
  
  Personally I really would like to see a GnuPG capable M2.