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 3)

Chris

on Sep 21, 2005

sland Dog & Chris, on the advanced tab under Network, do you have the browser identified as Opera?

Setting it to Opera / Mozilla / IE makes no difference. This thread page continuously reloads over and over again. Using Opera 8.5 BTW

Chris

on Sep 21, 2005

Here's something interesting. The continuous reload only occurs when I'm logged in to the wincustomize site. If I load this thread page when I'm not logged in, everything is fine.

Lantec

on Sep 21, 2005

I'm on version 8.02

I always wait a few days before upgrading to see if any problems arise from the upgrade. I'd say that there's one this time. I think it's going to have to be addressed on the WC end because I haven't seen it reported on other sites.

I always have mine identified as opera due to some strange results when ID'd as IE

aimzzz

on Sep 21, 2005

I'm having the reload problem now, but didn't have it before upgrading to 8.5. A few minutes ago I made a post about it on the Opera forum. Will let you know if I find out anything more

aimzzz

on Sep 21, 2005

re #32: I just tried logging out & had the same result-- the reloads don't happen if I'm logged out. I was using Opera 8.2 & never had this problem until yesterday evening after upgrading to 8.5. (didn't change any settings before noticing the reload issue.)

Lanetec is right about upgrades!

T-Man

on Sep 22, 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".

They broke the newest version of Opera. We use location.href = .../Forums.aspx?ForumID=24&AID=87132#671959 to jump to the last comment that was read. It appears that Opera is now ignoring the # anchor tag thus the above line causes Opera to continually to reload the page. So we had to chop that option out for Opera.

aimzzz

on Sep 22, 2005

Thanks, T_Man. I will post your comment on the Opera forum in hopes of getting it fixed.

Some WC users added posts to my thread about the same problem. Will let them know you took care of it.

Island Dog

on Sep 22, 2005

Thanks for the update T-Man.

Lantec

on Sep 22, 2005

Glad I read this. I just logged on a little while ago and noticed I wasn't going to the last read post. I was just about to post a bug thread.

Hengest

on Sep 23, 2005

Hengst,
You have it. What were you trying to do when WC said it did not support Opera?

I was clicking the 'B' to insert the bold tags.
Edit: I'm also running version 8.50 of Opera on Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4.

Lantec

on Sep 23, 2005

Hengest, I get that trying to use bold text also. It seems like I've never been able to do bold, italics or underline text since the new site opened. I'll have to let someone else check it with FireFox since I uninstalled it, I don't remember if I tried it with IE.

Anyone able to use the three buttons?

Lantec

on Sep 23, 2005

Ok, I'm in IE right now
Italics
Underlined

aimzzz

on Sep 23, 2005

I've noticed a similar problem-- can't apply a different font to part of a post

aimzzz

on Sep 23, 2005

Trying in IE--With Opera the font appears to be applies to all the text

aimzzz

on Sep 23, 2005

OK- Using Opera again- same w/ IE as w/ Opera

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