Opera 5 available (FREE)
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Opera site.
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Opera site.
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I like it fast eats netscape for dinner -
I'm using it now. Very interesting. Is that Opera banner at the upper right hand corner supposed to be the advertising?
Paul
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Has it improved at all over 4.x? I never liked Opera much because while it is fast it has horrible rendering problems on just about every page I have ever tried to visit. Further more, the Linux version is downright awful. I realize that Xfree86 doesn't have support for antialiased fonts, but Netscape at least went a long way to make things look relatively nicer. Opera was just plain hideous.
Unless there have been some brilliant improvements in 5.0 I'm going to stick with my trusty NS 4.76.
Phooey on IE, Phooey on Opera, Phooey on Mozilla even (also has rendering problems and it has an enormous memory footprint).
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Well, as great as some people say opera is, it doesn't work through http proxies that require authentication. Therefore, I can't use it at work. Oh well, tough noogies
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Carpe CerevisiLady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry CoxComment
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But... Why?In case it's a harware problem:
PIII-500@560, 256 MB, G400 MAX DH on, ABIT BH6, MX300
Win2K drivers: 5.52Comment
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At least CSS support is now better - pages with nested styles render very well.Originally posted by HedsSpaz:
Has it improved at all over 4.x?
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Well Netscape 6 doesn't work with our proxy server so it's in good company.
By the way this is a evaulation copy which lasts thirty days.Comment
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Soory scrolled down the page to far yes it is free.Comment
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paulcs,
From what I read, that is where the ads will go, the functionality is there, they are just not sending along ads for a while.
What I like about it is the speed in rendering pages. I might use it as an ICQ client as well, since I can't stand the real one. It's a bit rough around the edges, nothing I'd pay money for, but as freeware it has promise.
If anyone can figure out how to get subscribe to work in the news let me know.
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If I pay for it and the ad goes away, will it stop sending "aggragate data" about my surfing habits. I know it doesn't link the data to identity; I just don't like the idea of automated data uploads.
Paul
paulcs@flashcom.netComment
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If you think Opera is da shit, then try Mozilla M18 (daily build) goto www.mozilla.org for more info."Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
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I've been playing with Opera 5 today and it is really, really fast. Blows the hell out of IE5!
I just don't like it's incompatiblities. Namely, for me, the Anandtech forums. It doesn't refresh the threads correctly.
Talkin' to Greebe on ICQ, he suggested M18. I'm very impressed, so far. Nearly as fast as Opera. Haven't found any incompatibilities. It even imported my IE favorites!!
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But... why?In case it's a harware problem:
PIII-500@560, 256 MB, G400 MAX DH on, ABIT BH6, MX300
Win2K drivers: 5.52Comment
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paulcs,
From what they have on their site, they don't do that. In fact since you select the content you get I find it hard to believe you'd get many ads at all, there isn't a lot of advertising coming from hardware computer sites for example.
You can import IE favourites, you have to select properties to do it though. What I meant by rough edges, some things are hidden away and non intuitive.
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