Opera browser now FREE! (Really, no adverts!)

[vakkotaur]

The makers of the Opera web browser are now offering it for free. The ads are gone so there's no need to register to be rid of them. I haven't been able to confirm it, but supposedly anyone who paid the registration fee in the last 30 days will be getting a refund.

Comments

[khirmoonclaw.livejournal.com]

Ohh nice, Ive always liked there browser except for the ads thing :)

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

cool!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

So what advantage does Opera have over Firefox? I know they promoted tabbed browsing quite a long time ago, but other than that (since everyone except Microsoft has that now)?

Hmm, and the one time I looked at Opera, it still worked on a 486, albeit slowly, something none of the others will do any more.

[foolscap001.livejournal.com]

Let's see...they originated "mouse gestures", and their page zoom scales graphics as well as text, which has advantages if you're trying to read a web comic or some srizonified web page designer has encoded text as graphics.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

If you're used to and completely comfortable with Firefox, probably not all that much anymore. I've used Opera for years (since Opera 2.12) and find it just feels right to me. It seems to have a speed advantage, at least to me, as well. I have gotten used to the mouse gestures and to double clicking in an empty tab to load the home page (Google), and being able to type in an alias to load a page or a folder of pages.

Oh, and if someone is stuck with IE (wretched Microsoft proxies...) then there is Avant (http://www.avantbrowser.com/) which wraps around IE and makes it a bit more tolerable with pseudo-tabbed browsing and more accessible controls. The "no security holes" claim is quite a stretch. Sure, Avant doesn't add any more, but there are so many there already it hardly matters.

Oh, also....

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I'm used to each tab being a sub-window and I can open new sub-window by double-clicking an empty bit of workspace. I find that that and the double-click to load the home page are what I keep trying (and not doing, of course) when I use another browser.