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 4)

Sleeping Dragon

on Sep 25, 2005

Test test. I've been running around this site with Opera. Seems a bit quicker to navigate than FireFox.

werewolf

on Sep 25, 2005

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

Isn't Opera a fancy wrapper for IE?

Lantec

on Sep 26, 2005

Isn't Opera a fancy wrapper for IE?

No, your thinking of Maxthon, which was once called MyIE. It's the same engine, tweaked by a third party.

rmccabe916

on Sep 26, 2005

Everyone who has been having problems with using bold, italics, or underlined, this is an admitted problem with Opera. I believe it is a feature called Rich Text. This is what you are using when you are using different styles of text. Opera does not support it at this time. However, this feature will be in the next major version of Opera, Opera 9.

joetheblow

on Sep 26, 2005

Why would Opera... the greatest browser in the world... ignore the # symbol? They must have realized that is a way to hack into browsers but didn't say anything about it.

The
Opera Fanboy

Septimus

on Sep 26, 2005

8.50 is working fine with WC for me and I have had no problems. Been using Opera exclusively for 3 years now and most of the WC issues have been resolved.

Lantec

on Sep 26, 2005

Septimus, See #36 by T-Man. They had to disable some of the site code to allow the 8.5 upgrade to work.

aimzzz

on Sep 26, 2005

#46 I haven't run into this problem personally, but I suggest the use of protective gear when browsing so you won't mess up the PC when your head explodes.

albertus

on Oct 01, 2005

is it better?

neophil78

on Oct 01, 2005

Pffffff, Opera is free just because you have to pay for Rock'n'Roll

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