Opera now free

Poststructural Pub
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The latest version (8.5) of Opera’s blazing-fast and highly convenient browser is now free-as-in-beer. Older versions either cost 40 bucks or included an ad banner. Most of the features people raved about on Mozilla’s Firefox–tabbed browsing, mouseclicks, a built-in google (or any other engine) search box, etc. were in fact pioneered by Opera and replicated by Mozilla. I like it a good deal.

It can be downloaded from www.opera.com

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Thanks for the tip. I used to employ Opera and was always amazed at its speed.

Dale

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I tried to download it to my work computer, but for some reason it wont work…hmmm.

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Cool :sunglasses: :slight_smile: :sunglasses:

I love Opera and Firefox. Up yours Gatesy :smiley:

Thanks fer the tip-off.

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hmmm…i’m using mozilla1.7.8, should i change? if yes, why?

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Not necessarily. I’m not sure that there is any obvious reason to prefer Opera over Firefox. It MAY be faster. Sometimes I find that Firefox is slow to fully load—not a page–but the actual browser.

Dale

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Hmm. I find Opera easier to use, but then I’m acclimatised to it. I use their mouse gestures al the time. I particularly like the way that and reload from cache rather than downloading the entire page anew, the way mozilla does–this makes flipping back and forth between pages–to paste infor into a webform for instance. Everything’s retained in the cache, including whatever you’ve already typed.

On the downside, some pages–like google desktop search, for instance–don’t work in Opera.

Opera’s schtick is to draw the page while it’s downloading, so you don’t have to wait for the last graphic to download to begin reading. It rerenders the page on the fly as new packets arrive. This is what gives them their impressive speed.

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i see, ok, thank you. :slight_smile:

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Bugger! I thought you meant I could see Cosi Fan Tutti for nowt. :frowning:

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Firefox gobbles up my system resources like it’s loose in a henhouse, crashing all my other apps. Does Opera have this problem?

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Thanks for the nudge Simon.


More free stuff >>>
http://www.openoffice.org/

Mukade

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I have a lot of resources to be gobbled, but the only time Opera crashes is when I click on sites with a lot of script of one kind or another. I typically have opera open all day, with multiple tabs, along with all the other programs I’m running.

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I was halfway to the Royal Opera House before I realised I’d beed duped again, you rat.