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  • schmosef
    Super MURCer
    • Dec 2002
    • 5813

    #1

    Opera 9

    It's free now right?

    If so, how do they support themselves?

    Does it inject ads or something?
    P.S. You've been Spanked!
  • dZeus
    Moderator
    • Aug 2000
    • 4622

    #2
    it's been free since 7.50 I think, support and no adds

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    • schmosef
      Super MURCer
      • Dec 2002
      • 5813

      #3
      How do they pay for their development costs?
      P.S. You've been Spanked!

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      • dZeus
        Moderator
        • Aug 2000
        • 4622

        #4
        they've got a deal with google with the integrated google search box, similar to the deal Google has with firefox I think.

        And I guess they use it as free publicity for selling expensive licences for their mobile browser to cellphone manufacturers and network providers

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        • schmosef
          Super MURCer
          • Dec 2002
          • 5813

          #5
          ok
          P.S. You've been Spanked!

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          • Jessterw
            Style Master, Rtd.
            • Jul 2002
            • 4265

            #6
            Opera has been making most of its money from their browser for mobile/handheld and other devices. The desktop browser we all know and 'love' has never been a profit maker for them from what I've gathered.
            “And, remember: there's no 'I' in 'irony'” ~ Merlin Mann

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            • Gurm
              MS Fanboy
              • Aug 1999
              • 11460

              #7
              Y'know, like Netscape.

              *snicker*

              And, sadly, it works about as well too.

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              I am SORELY disappointed that the only browser that "works" properly... is IE6.
              The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

              I'm the least you could do
              If only life were as easy as you
              I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
              If only life were as easy as you
              I would still get screwed

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              • Jessterw
                Style Master, Rtd.
                • Jul 2002
                • 4265

                #8
                Hardly.
                “And, remember: there's no 'I' in 'irony'” ~ Merlin Mann

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                • schmosef
                  Super MURCer
                  • Dec 2002
                  • 5813

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Gurm
                  Y'know, like Netscape.

                  *snicker*

                  And, sadly, it works about as well too.

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                  I am SORELY disappointed that the only browser that "works" properly... is IE6.
                  As a novice web programmer, I used to like IE6 because no matter how mangled your HTML was, it tried to render it and it often did a good job.

                  As a slightly more advanced programmer, I'm truly aghast at how crash prone IE 6 is.

                  IE7 is sorely needed!
                  P.S. You've been Spanked!

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