The Last Opera Headache

This morning I read about a third-party freeware app designed to block ad banners and pop-ups in Opera called OperaAdFilter. The inability to selectively blacklist ad banners is the No. 2 reason that I don't use Opera for daily web browsing (right behind No. 1, "awful user interface"), so I decided to give it a try.

The OperaAdFilter (or OAF) site says it works with all current versions of Opera including the version 8 betas. So I assumed it would work with the final version of Opera 8. And I was wrong. The OAF installation wizard tells you that you will need to find your Opera 7.5 opera.ini file. A browse window then appears, titled, "Locate your Opera 6 opera.ini." And the best part is that Opera 8 contains nothing even remotely resembling a file called opera.ini. I picked what looked like it could possibly be something like what OAF was asking me for, and finished the install. And then Opera refused to even attempt to resolve any URL whatsoever.

Obviously, it was the botched OAF install that fucked Opera 8 up, but I uninstalled them both anyway. Firefox has an extension called AdBlock that works flawlessly every time. I'm done with Opera. I tried, and tried, and tried, but version 8 is the last build any hard drive of mine will ever see.