Well, I thought I'd have one more try with Opera, as it's reckoned to be so good, but it won't even install!  I/O Error - corrupt installation file, or something, so taking that as an omen, I'll stick with IE.  

Yeah im using Opera the now too. Its pretty good  

And fast too!  

Boss

P.S Can you get skins for it?

Quote from: Big_Boss on May 19, 2003, 11:15

P.S Can you get skins for it?

Loads BB Try View | Skins | Get Skins

Thanks, got a really nice looking one now  

Boss

OK, well I'll use it for a while, but at the moment I'm still finding my way round it.  

A couple of questions for our Opera Expert    Is is possible to adjust how the mouse wheel works (i.e. how many lines it moves per 'click'), how can you get it to automatically dial up to go online, and (for Chorley Dave), how do you do that Google UK thing exactly??

It still doesn't display pages as I would like, i.e., as nicely as IE does, and some of the text, particularly on here looks a bit odd.

I don't like too many toolbars cluttering up the screen, so I have stripped it right down to a few essential buttons (small), with the address and search bars along side, leaving a nice big area for the page.

I have to say that the toys alone are not going to sell this to me, and the speed is nothing special, in fact the Mozilla Firebird was the quickest I've seen so far - what a shame it's incompatible with Pals, otherwise I would be more inclined to give it another outing.

What View | Text Size value do you have set in IE. It should be set on Medium to display Pals as it is meant to be viewed

I have it set to Small in IE, as that's the way it looks best with my screen resolution.  (I know - trust me to be different)  

As far as the mouse wheel clicks, there's usually a browser setting somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment.  I don't want to change the settings in the mouse software, as that will then affect other things.

I'll give it another thourough going over.  

Hi Dave,

Yeah, that's what I did but it didn't seem to make any difference.  The address still comes up as google.com, even though I changed it like you said.  

Err, mine is Opera 7.02, I believe.  

I did find the / a search.ini in the application folder, and the thing Dave said about was definitely in there, and I definitely changed it, but I'll have a look and see if there's another one somewhere.

I've had to go back to IE on at least 2 occasions so far tonight, when Opera failed to display webpages.  I'm not convinced yet.

Hi again, Simon.

Sorry your having problems.  I've never used XP, having once tried WinME and hated it so much that I reformatted and went back to 98SE within the day.  Whenever I have upgraded my Opera browser to a newer version (as Opera does not write anything to the registry AFAIK) I have simply deleted the Opera directory and downloaded the newer version without any problem.

Hope you get it sorted one way or the other.