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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:35:35 +0100, self <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But the inability to continue to have my cache archived and indexed by
Copernic or Google is a real problem.
The fact that most text editors rely on file extensions to choose the
syntax highlighting is another problem. When I view source in Opera 9.5,
or click the link to view an external Javascript file from the error
console, it just appears as black plain text.
there is no human way to look through tens of
thousands of cache files by hand individually hoping to find what I am
looking for.
Ironically, they key reason for the change (as well as prevening some AV
programs detecting HTML 'viruses' - web pages with snippets of code known
to trigger bugs and crash MSIE - and causing problems) now appears to be
that leaving out extension allows Opera to tidy up the cache after a crash
more speedily.
There was a post somewhere, where an Opera developer said that if the
cache is set to 2GB then it can take a while for Opera to start up again
after the crash because it first has to find all the known cache files and
then delete all the files in the cache folder which weren't listed in the
cache index by the time of the crash. I'm sure this is all part of looking
ahead to offline applications and heavier cache use in future versions,
but it doesn't help me viewing source in todays version.
I hope that Opera reconsiders this disaster and returns to leaving the
file suffixs on.
I think I also read that they did attempt to make it optional but gave up
because it made things too complicated. So short of a full U-turn, I can't
see them changing this.
Meanwhile, what is the latest version that does not have this disaster
built in, and wwhere can I download it?
Opera 9.27:
http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?opsys=Windows&lng=en&ver=9.27&platform=Windows&local=y
That link is for Windows. For other operating systems and other
recent(ish) versions, navigate from here:
http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?custom=yes
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