This is post on advanced tweaks. :) You don’t have to use these, but functionality is there for techies that want it.

I’ve noticed that I get better Google results on Internet Explorer than the Google on Mozilla Fox.

Google uses history of searches to customize results. Which can sometimes actually do more harm than good. So it depends on how often you use search in each browser and if you are logged in with Google account.

When and if they simplify Opera to merely downloading it then putting the desired info in their search box, I’ll try it.

It currently does exactly that – Google box you can simply use. Go try it. :)

When and if they simplify Opera to merely downloading it then putting the desired info in their search box, I’ll try it.

Good luck trying Opera, I hope you will like it. :)

Will learn much more from you.

thank you

People often get feature bloat term wrong. It’s not bloat because of sheer amount of features, it’s bloat when features get in the way of resource consumption and interface usability.

Opera does magnificent work of packing so many features so they don’t get in the way.

Ok, so with Opera we can do a search either by using a
right-click on a word (“Search With”), or using the
Opera address bar instead of a search engine’s Web site
search box.

Groovy ! ~This~ being what I like about Opera: Many
ways to do the same thing.

Not that I’ll use all the ways, but each represents an
option and a choice.

People complain about “feature bloat”. Yet the more
features, the more potential alternatives for accomplishing
things !

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The DataRat

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Ah, SSH as in tunneling. Not my area. :) Need to read up on it, have some sites bookmarked for a while.

Socks is proxy protocol as I remember, so try proxy settings as above.

ssh -p -ND 8081 username@remoteserverip

password

-p = port switch in case one doesn’t want to use default 22

-ND (I would have to go back to the man pages–mind forgot meaning and why, sorry)

connection established with RSA key 2048

go to network browser socks line enter localhost:8081

(or whatever one likes–default is 1080, yes? which would make 8081 1080 instead)

Yes, I guess one can call it a proxy; regardless, I’ve never found a place in Opera in which to insert the localhost:port

Ok, you seriously lost me here. :) Browsers are not really meant for SSH shell connections, different kind of tool.

If you mean SSL, it’s like usual – via https:// protocol.

If you mean secure proxy – proxies are managed in Preferences > Advanced > Network > Proxy servers.