Opera is now free!

Though not free as in beer

Published on September 20, 2005 By Hengest In Internet

The Opera web browser is now completely free for anyone without any annoying ad. banners at the top.

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 today’s milestone an achievable goal. Premium support is available.

So, if you haven't tried it out yet, give it a go. Opera offers many of the same features as Firefox (security, tabs, skins, etc), although it does seem to, generally, use-up less system resources than Firefox.

Comments (Page 1)

Island Dog

on Sep 20, 2005

Competition is good.

Lantec

on Sep 20, 2005

Frankly, I kinda feel like a schmuck for paying $40 for it. I guess I've had it long enough that it amounts to less than 10 cents a day. So go ahead and get your Opera....it's on me.

Gregory2001

on Sep 20, 2005

Puts the rest of 'em to shame!

thomassen

on Sep 20, 2005

hm.. the free licence I got hold of which they gave away didn't feel that special now...

but it's good news anyways. Thanks for the heads up!

Scarebear

on Sep 20, 2005

That's awesome news.

Bichur

on Sep 20, 2005

So go ahead and get your Opera....it's on me.

Thanks Lantec!

Chickie

on Sep 20, 2005

About time! I tried Opera long time ago. NOW, it's FREE. Sweeeeeeeeet!

GhoS

on Sep 20, 2005

Certainly would be more willing to use it now that its free and has no ads. Those ads were a big turnoff. However i'm comfortable with FF so really don't see a reason to change. I haven't tried Opera in since like version 5 or 6, somewhere in there, yet I just never liked the interface.
I know its been changed, I still don't see the point in switching.

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SoliD_NuTs

on Sep 20, 2005

Opera rules!

rabidrobot

on Sep 20, 2005

Hey, thanks for the news! I hadn't given Opera a real try because of those ads. Now I'll definitely take a closer look, although I like FireFox quite a bit.

esg-designs

on Sep 20, 2005

NETSCAPE RULES!!!!

ANYway...
I have to download it. Now I'll have 4 different browsers on my computer. If your a web developer, a help desk consultant (or a tech consultant period), or just a techboy you HAVE to have all the major browsers that run on your OS.

Alternatives to IE is great. You think MS would have came up with IE7 before WindowsVS? Nope.

NETSCAPE RULES!

Hengest

on Sep 20, 2005

Opera rules!

Agreed.

Unfortunately, WC doesn't always seem to like it.

Lantec

on Sep 20, 2005

? I've never seen that error message and I've been using Opera for quite a while. Have you downloaded the Java Plug-In from the Opera website?

Island Dog

on Sep 20, 2005

I haven't seen that error message here. However, when I look at a post in the forums the page seems to continuously "reload".

Lantec

on Sep 20, 2005

when I look at a post in the forums the page seems to continuously "reload".

I haven't experienced any problems with Opera since they fixed the justification problem a few months ago. Opera starts to display the page as soon as it starts to receive data. Are you seeing it load continuosly as long as you view a page. Do you see it in the progress bars as loading?

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