Trying to use Opera

WinXP Pro sp2.

Last week, Firefox crashed on me hard enough to cause a BSOD, and I
lost my personal profile, so I'm trying out Opera as a possible
replacement.  I installed Opera 9.21.  However...

Compared to Firefox, I'm running into things that just don't seem to
work right, if at all.  In no particular order:

* Block Content is nowhere near as robust as the Adblock+ extension.
AB+ seems to work with wild cards better.  Forex 1, if in BC I select
an image that is from "http://server.domain.com/path/item1" and edit
it
down to "*.domain.com*, I'll still get images from
"http://server.domain.com/path/item2".  Forex 2, with AB+, I can
block
entire specified iframes, which also gets rid of text ads, Opera's BC
does not do this so far as I can tell.

* Flash doesn't seem to be working on at least one page I visit
regularly, even after installing the current version from Adobe and
nothing on that page is being blocked.

* Yesterday, Google Maps didn't show any maps in Opera but today it
does, FF had no problem yesterday.

* Is there an RSS +reader+ Widget?  All I can find in a widget search
are feeds.  The built-in reader has, imo, a lousy interface.

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In opera.tech, Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:

> WinXP Pro sp2.
[ ]

Hi Jeffery.  'Mark V' here from those other groups.  :)

I leave you to the users and volunteer OS staff, but suggest 
 opera.general
for this post.  ".tech" is usually rather hardcore technical 
questions requiring developer-level responses.  Still, you will 
probably get some answers as is.  Good luck and hope you can find 
Opera entirely usable and satisfactory.

It is alleged that Mark V claimed:

> I leave you to the users and volunteer OS staff, but suggest 
>  opera.general
> for this post.  ".tech" is usually rather hardcore technical 
> questions requiring developer-level responses.  Still, you will 
> probably get some answers as is.  Good luck and hope you can find 
> Opera entirely usable and satisfactory.

I didn't see that group before, it was cleverly hidden in the middle of
some language-specific groups... :)

-- 
Jeffrey Kaplan                                         www.gordol.org
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"Would you buy a used pocket dreadnought from this man?"  (Miles

In opera.tech, Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:

> It is alleged that Mark V claimed:
> 
>> I leave you to the users and volunteer OS staff, but suggest 
>>  opera.general
[ ]

> I didn't see that group before, it was cleverly hidden in the
> middle of some language-specific groups... :)

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