Opera 8.5 now Freeware

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"Why we're going free

Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing
fee. Opera's growth, due to tremendous worldwide customer support, has
made todays milestone an achievable goal. Premium support is
available. What makes Opera's web browser unique

The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes
pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced
functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and
IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can
customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of
the mouse. Read the feature list How to review Opera

The reviewer's guide provides a step-by-step introduction to the features
and functions of the Opera Web browser. Reviewer's guide A world of Opera
users

Discover and join one of the Web's most advanced communities. Create
blogs, upload photos from your mobile phone and network with friends
around the globe. The My Opera Community puts you in charge. Visit now."

Regards
Gordon
 
The reviewer's guide provides a step-by-step introduction to the features
and functions of the Opera Web browser. Reviewer's guide A world of Opera
users
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Also, there is the opera.general newsgroup.
 
Also, there is the opera.general newsgroup.
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I think Firefox has now got REAL competition.
I was converted to from F'fox to Opera some while ago and once you have set
it up to your own personal view it does everything I want from F'fox and
some.
Moreover it doesn't depend on extensions and nightly flim-flam.
 
I think Firefox has now got REAL competition.
Great.

I was converted to from F'fox to Opera some while ago and once you
have set it up to your own personal view it does everything I want
from F'fox and some.
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It doesn't do everything I want though. And unlike firefox you can't really
change that. But still it's a very worthy browser. I use both.
 
"Why we're going free
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Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing
fee. Opera's growth, due to tremendous worldwide customer support, has
made todays milestone an achievable goal. Premium support is
available.
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Maybe they have enough customers paying for support, so they can afford
to give the software away for free. It will give them even more paying
customers, big companies which pay for support.

I hope, and believe, that Opera will go open source, license GPL/GNU
for example.

Remember to submit Opera to PL2006, somebody who knows how to do it
properly.

We also have to ask Opera if they allow non-commercial distribution of
Opera, on CD.
 
I think Firefox has now got REAL competition.
I was converted to from F'fox to Opera some while ago and once you have set
it up to your own personal view it does everything I want from F'fox and
some.
Moreover it doesn't depend on extensions and nightly flim-flam.
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I think they have a slightly different appeal. For years I used Opera
under Linux (when I was still using IE and even for a time when I used
Mozilla Suite and then Firefox). However the last time I updated my
Linux install I decided not to bother with Opera (and it never made it
onto my Windows boot). Why, Opera is fast, has had tabbed browsing for
years and reasonable compatibility with sites. However the Linux version
went from being a focused browser to a suite with two items I never use
as I have always preferred other mail and news readers whilst Firefox is
a straight forward browser and I like the idea of extensions which allow
me to customise it to my particular needs.

Opera is good and this move will provide competition but I think they
attract a slightly different type of user. All in all though very good news.

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On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:52:26 GMT, R. Amuzu wrote:


I like Opera too Jim and have used it since (I think) Ver 5.12?

However the Linux version went from being a focused browser to a suite
with two items I never use as I have always preferred other mail and
news readers whilst Firefox is a straight forward browser and I like the idea
of extensions which allow me to customise it to my particular needs.
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There is no need to use the Opera mail client nor its news reader
which don't take up much space anyway, I use opera just as a browser
although in past times for curiosity I have tried the mail client from
time to time, just to see what it was like.
 
I think Firefox has now got REAL competition.
I was converted to from F'fox to Opera some while ago and once you
have set it up to your own personal view it does everything I want
from F'fox and some.
Moreover it doesn't depend on extensions and nightly flim-flam.
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Hi, perhaps you can help me. All I wish is the ability to open a new tab
with it (the new tab) grabbing the focus instead of being in the
background, as I can do in FF by middle clicking. Any help to achieve this
seemingly simple task would be much appreciated.
Yours-Tbobz
 
Hi, perhaps you can help me. All I wish is the ability to open a new tab
with it (the new tab) grabbing the focus instead of being in the
background, as I can do in FF by middle clicking. Any help to achieve this
seemingly simple task would be much appreciated.
Yours-Tbobz
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Middle clicking works for me.
However I cannot remember whether it came as default, or whether I set it
in Tools/Preferences.
 
Middle clicking works for me.
However I cannot remember whether it came as default, or whether I set
it in Tools/Preferences.
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I found it in 'mouse gestures'.After enabling mouse gestures, right click
the link and drag it down slightly. I must confess in my earlier searches
I ignored mouse gestures as they were an unknown quantity to me.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my question.

Yours-Tbobz
 
mercoledì 21 settembre 2005 Tbobz ha scritto:
I found it in 'mouse gestures'.After enabling mouse gestures, right click
the link and drag it down slightly. I must confess in my earlier searches
I ignored mouse gestures as they were an unknown quantity to me.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my question.
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Don't forget also shift+click!

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However I cannot remember whether it came as default, or whether I set it
in Tools/Preferences.
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I can't remeber it either. Anyway it's available in
Tools/Preferences/Advanced.
 
Middle button click:

Tools->Prefs->Advanced Tab->Shortcuts->Middle Click Options->Open in
new page
 
Or maybe they just like all that money Google is paying them...
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Actually, Opera Software secures a significant part of it's revenues in
the embedded browser space where they supply browsers for phones and other
non-pc devices.
 
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