Do you mean the menu bar? How about disabling it from the File menu and then use the Alt key to bring up the pop-up menu instead?

Only think I hate about Opera is the large menu which takes up far too much of the screen. With Firefox and IE you can make it smaller although they are to begin with!

Instead of lurching for the comment button to comment an opinion on something you have no idea about, why not try it and then post some informed analysis?

You seem to equate any form of data transfer as P2P, which just shows a misunderstanding of the medium.

And as for the person comparing Unite with professionally hosted 'web solutions', oh please. You're just like all the idiots who commented on the original articles announcing Unite by saying it wasn't as good as Apache and was therefore rubbish and none of them had any intentions of removing Apache and installing Unite instead.

Facebook and Twitter are no substitute for your own website either, and the iPlayer is no substitute for a real TV. Horses for courses.

...is that it only works as long as you have your own PC switched on. Since I do not run a full-time datacentre in my house, I will continue to use hosted Web solutions for a long time, yet (especially as they have a short hop to a major backbone, and I do not.)

But I *can* appreciate that for many people who just want to share something with a friend, it is a far better idea that using something like MSN (which practically blocks you from sharing anything these days) or having to find somewhere to host files.

I'd be far more impressed, however, if Opera focused on usability. A lot of Web pages I surf with Opera simply do not work as intended - and the last update even made links on The Inquirer non-responsive to clicks. I do not see much point in a browser that does not follow links when they are clicked, personally, so I think some testing and bug-fixing is called for...

It's definitely not P2P. It's a series of web pages, where you can put up your photos, music, videos, messages... It's more like your own personal social site: like everyone has an email, now everyone gets a site, without being dependent on 3rd parties and reliquishing all types of rights over your own content.

The good news is it's very easy to set up and use.

The bad news is is quite ugly and rustic. version 1.0 without a doubt.

I hope the idea catches on though, I for one don't want to entrust my data to a glorified advertiser, anonymous subcontractors...

Quite the opposite. Pure client/server.

Opera calls it Unite, but i believe everyone else calls it P2P. It sure sounds like the same thing to me.

This article got me thinking. When was the last time The Inquirer or Another Place™ actually tried out a new version of a browser before writing about it, instead of just rehashing press releases and peppering the text with phrases like "the firm claims...", "...which is supposed to", "something called..." or "apparently".

Seriously, why can't specialist IT news sites install a browser and try it for themselves? This doesn't happen nearly as much with hardware - which you have to physically get hold of and connect to a computer, configure, install the drivers, etc.

But always finish on an up-note. This article managed to avoid describing Opera as open source!

I hope this is good, they've been hyping this up quite a lot.