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It's dang amazing how opera can support so many platforms, and it's dang amazing how it can include so many features.. for instance, as someone else put it on slashdot,
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Built-in mouse gestures, tabbed browsing, BitTorrent client, mail client, irc client, RSS reader, completely customizable interface, screen reader ... cross platform ... ability to (easily) shut off images, flash, animated gifs, cookies, doesn't take 4 minutes to clear its cache ... And its all of 3MBs.
Compare that to firefox, and you would be needing at least 20mb... compare that to IE ALONE, and you're looking at more than 80mb.
And ontop of all that, it's incredibly fast across platforms.. for instance, I used to use it on my original pentiums because firefox just wouldn't load.. it was incredibly laggy.
Oh, and if you think Opera does not support plugins, themes and extensions, then you are deeply wrong. So for a 3mb download, it is EXTREMELY worth it :D
Nemesis, no. the serial key is for version 8, and it lasts as long as you want. What you read is that they are only available for a day :P
The catch is, you don't get support like payed customers, and it won't work for version 9 which will come out relatively soon. however, you can get one for version 9 if you reffer 250 people to opera.
Josh, I'm not sure how the bit-torrent part works. But I know opera integrated a bittorent client into it as there was a big slashdot article about it a while ago.
Last edited by kahrn on Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:25 am; edited 1 time in total
the problem i have with pera is lack of add blocker like fire fox
I find that pretty hard to believe, considering the ad blocker in firefox was based on opera's... if you change the options (like you are supposed to) then you won't see pop-up/under Ad's.. you can even use UserJS to block out things like google Ad's and such.. (although I like google Ad's as they can be interesting, and without them google wouldn't be as far as it is now)
Sorry, I did not read Kahrn's post. I just checked through Opera preferences, and I see no ad-blocking anywhere.
Kahrn, could you provide us with the exact directions on how to activate this?
There are still some issues with Opera. The font in Gmail is a bit messed up. If you try to do the Fast Reply option on this forum, it will freeze up, and you have to Refresh the page for your post to appear.
Little things like that can add up.
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