New Opera Include Widgets, Bittorrent

[method77]

Opera Software on Tuesday plans to release a second preview version of Opera 9, the next version of its namesake Web browser.

For the first time, the new version will include support for so-called widgets, Opera representative Thomas Ford said. Widgets are essentially small browser windows that display information taken from the Internet on a user's desktop. The notion is similar in concept to the widget idea that Apple Computer uses in the Dashboard feature of Mac OS X.

"It is really a big jump for us into Web applications," Ford said. "They give people the information they want right on the desktop. Even if it is a Web page, people don't have to go to the browser to see it."

Additionally, Opera's latest preview will include support for BitTorrent downloads, Ford said. BitTorrent is a file-download technology that connects the computers of numerous people who want the same file, instead of drawing files solely from one source. Typically, people who wanted to get downloads using BitTorrent have had to download dedicated software.

Opera will include the official BitTorrent.com search engine in its browser. Any BitTorrent downloads will appear in the browser's "transfer manager," just like traditional downloads that use the venerable File Transfer Protocol, or FTP.

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[DudeAsInCool]

Widgets are fun and handy

[method77]

fo you have them on your mac?

[DudeAsInCool]

fo you have them on your mac?

Yes. Currently I have:

[method77]

that's cool

I have to start learning how to use those

[bmc]

widgets.yahoo.com/

anyways i cant wait to try out that new build of opera tomorrow

[method77]

using it already

very nice

[bmc]

ok, im using it now. although the widgets are really cool, i really do not see the point of them. you cannot display them on the desktop with opera hidden to the taskbar....whats the point of displaying them while you are browsing?

[method77]

report that to the forums. This is a test release

EDIT: You are wrong on that. You can use them anywhere

[bmc]

report that to the forums. This is a test release

good, i was hoping that wasnt the default behavior. i wonder which will eat more memory....running widgets on desktop (when it works) with opera in the tray, or just running yahoo widgets...

[bmc]

how can i use them anywhere? doesnt work for me...

[method77]

I minimised the browser and the widgets are there

[bmc]

minimizing the browser to display them on the desktop is pointless, why cant you do it with opera hidden? grrr im going to their forums to request this...

[method77]

what do you mean hidden?

[bmc]

Hit ctrl+h while you are in opera and it minimizes it to an icon in the tray. i think that the widgets should still display when it is hidden to the tray...otherwise it seems pointless to me.

[method77]

you are right. Post it

[bmc]

i did http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=123274

[method77]

put a beatking link in your sig, will you?

don't forget to spam

[method77]

I replied lol

btw you posted in the wrong section

they have a widget forum

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/forum.dml?id=1296

[bmc]

bah, and i cant move it...

there is now a BK link in my sig