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 | | From: | Dennis Bathory-Kitsz | | Subject: | Opera and WinGate | | Date: | Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:00:30 -0500 |
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 | Hi all,
This was originally posted a while ago in Opera.General. There was no
response, so maybe this is a better audience. Thanks!
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For years I've been using both Opera and WinGate, and always blamed
WinGate for the problem of Opera 'disappearing' when clicking links too
quickly (especially if a page hasn't finished loading). Opera would
still be listed on the server, but no links would function, nor would
reloads. It looked like Opera was simply idle. Killing Opera at the
server, or restarting Opera from the client would set it in motion again
(killing it on the server was a pain, but the best way if I had dozens
of pages open).
I'd tried different Opera network settings, so concluded it was probably
a WinGate thing and have been bugging them about it with no results.
Now, as an Opera-only browser user since one of the first public
releases, I'd stupidly never bothered using another browser except very
occasionally (mostly for local testing) and never to see if this idling
act might be Opera's problem. (I use Netscape 3 for news and Eudora for
mail.)
But the Firefox hype got to me and I said, well, I must try it just to
be smug about Opera. My reaction was, as expected, lukewarm because
Opera was so much more configurable and had more effective features. BUT
Firefox didn't pull the disappearing act! Plus, pages loaded far faster
than in Opera. So I tried a bunch of other browsers, and *none* of them
'disconnected' from the server like Opera.
I know the description is vague, but has anyone seen this kind of
behavior? To say again, clicking too fast would suddenly turn Opera idle
(usually, it seemed, during a DNS, and there are lots of DNS lookups on
sites like eBay). Restarting Opera or killing it from the server would
re-activate it.
And can anyone help? My present system in Win98SE (all updates), Opera
7.54, WinGate 6.03 server (latest) using WinGate WGIC (not NAT) client,
cable modem. I'd formerly been running wired, now running wireless with
the same results. This problem has gone back to at least Opera 4 and
WinGate 3. I've tried many different network settings for Opera (1 to 64
connections, synchronous checked or not, various IDs, etc.) to no avail.
I would **love** to go back to Opera, but Firefox is working so much
faster and 100% reliably on the network.
Dennis
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