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What is the Opera Personal news feature and how do you use it?


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I mainly use Opera on my desktop. Although I would love to do firefox my default, it’s hard to pull me out The best tab manager on the planet found in Opera.

Until Firefox can replicate what Opera has done with Workspaces, I’ll have to keep using the closed source browser.

But Workspace is not my favorite feature on Opera. There’s another feature I’ve been using lately that makes it very simple to watch the news.

What I like most about Opera Personal news is that I can gather the sources I want and, in a single window, scroll through all the headlines from those sources and click to see the articles I want.

This saves me from having to go page after page to see the news I want or need. It’s all about convenience, and it does that very well.

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One thing to keep in mind is that not every news source is available for Opera Personal news. Even so, it has a large collection of news to choose from. In fact, in about five minutes, I had a collection of 22 news sources to watch. It’s easy and convenient.

Let me show you how to access Opera’s Personal news feature and how to add sources, so you can see only the news you want from a single access point.

What is the Opera Personal news feature and how do you use it?

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The only thing you need for this is a running version of the Opera web browser. That’s it. Read some news.

The first thing to do is open the Opera web browser on your desktop. If you don’t have the browser installed, you can get the installer from Opera download page.

Click the red O menu button in the upper left corner and from the drop-down menu click News.

Opera menu.

Accessing Opera’s Personal News feature is done through the Opera menu.

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On the results page, click Add Source in the left pane.

Opera Personal news site source list.

The Opera Personal news site is ready for sources.

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In the search field, enter keywords for the news you want.

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For example, if you want to add technology news sources, enter technology in the search field and from the list of results click to add any and all of the sources you want.

Opera Personal news feed page.

Search technology news sources for Opera Personal news.

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If you don’t find what you’re looking for, expand the Browse Categories section in the bottom half of the window, then expand any category to find the news source you want.

List of Opera's personal news categories.

Search for a specific news source for Opera Personal news.

Photo: Jack Wallen

Read your news

Once you’ve added all the sources you want, click My Sources in the left pane to display all the news items associated with your saved sources.

A news sample is displayed in Opera Personal news.

Opera Personal News is ready to go.

Photo: Jack Wallen

Find something you want to read and click on it to open a new tab displaying the article in question.

And that’s all for using the Opera Personal news feature. You can even add ZDNET as a source so you can quickly see what’s been published on the site, along with all your other sources.

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I’ve been using the daily Opera Personal news feature for a while now, and it not only saves me time, but also ensures that I don’t miss out on all the news worth reading.

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