The Opera browser has been released without ads for free.
Those cheeky bitches, after the big rush when they were giving away free registrations all of a couple of weeks back…
Also thanks for the heads-up.
They said it was in reaction to Firefox being distributed for free. Competition is a wonderful thing. Free sh*t is even better.
What are the chances of being able to surf Chinese-language websites in Taiwan with Opera? It’s bad enough with Firefox.
Hey-ho, I’ll give it a go.
[quote=“moomoojuice”]What are the chances of being able to surf Chinese-language websites in Taiwan with Opera? It’s bad enough with Firefox.
Hey-ho, I’ll give it a go.[/quote]
You’ll have no problems. Opera has very good Chinese support.
BTW, be sure you download the latest version: Opera 8.5. Last nite, the local mirrors here still had an older version up.
[quote=“Comrade Stalin”][quote=“moomoojuice”]What are the chances of being able to surf Chinese-language websites in Taiwan with Opera? It’s bad enough with Firefox.
Hey-ho, I’ll give it a go.[/quote]
You’ll have no problems. Opera has very good Chinese support.
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I think he means does Opera handle peculiarities of IE better? Bad coding where people just check stuff in IE and think they’re good programmers. Makes it hard for the rest of us.
[quote=“moomoojuice”]What are the chances of being able to surf Chinese-language websites in Taiwan with Opera? It’s bad enough with Firefox. [/quote]How so? I haven’t had any major issues with that myself…
he probably means lots of chinese sites don’t display well in any browser besides IE.
Good programmers will often make their sites standards compliant. they’ll test against web standards.
Or some programmers will work until the site looks ok. Could be buggy but it looks ok in IE and they think they’re done.
I already use Firefox and fall back onto IE.
I know there are all these good browsers out there. Say for mac, Camino, Omniweb, Opera.
Is there ANY compelling reason that I should move from Firefox to Opera?
I haven’t used Opera in like 3+ years, plus I just don’t geek out as much anymore.
OK, does Opera have a bug?
At first I thought it was Skype that messed up my screen refreshing … but now I have to believe that it’s a bug in Opera … when i have it open for half a day or so and have like 5-6 pages (tabs) open, my computer or screen starts to have trouble refreshing … kind of too little memory … I have 512 MB in my banks … SDRAM tho … video card has 32 or 64 MB
Yep, Opera is a great browser but buggy…
Mine crashes a lot, i.e. daily, but I still think it’s better than IE.
Anyone trying Flock?
Kenneth
I gave up using Opera. It was like Firefox but with reduced functionality. I need my extensions.
Using Opera since years and while not perfect (which browser is?) I have been very happy with it. Hardly crashes on my laptop and if it does it at least remembers the pages you were on, giving you the choice to reload them or start on a blank page.