Opera Web Browser goes free

Opera Web Browser goes free
Opera, inc ^ | 09/19/05 | unknown

Posted on 09/20/2005 7:47:53 AM PDT by Salo

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.

TOPICS: Business/Economy; Technical
KEYWORDS: free; opera; webbrowser

Great browser, and the price is right.

1 posted on 09/20/2005 7:47:57 AM PDT by Salo

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To: ShadowAce; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Tech pings, please.

2 posted on 09/20/2005 7:48:27 AM PDT by Salo (WWFSMD?)

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To: Salo

Ah, Opera's OK, but I like Firefox better (also free, and I love the free plugins).

3 posted on 09/20/2005 7:50:21 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)

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To: N3WBI3

They haven't open-sourced it, but I thought you might be interested in some foreign freeware.

4 posted on 09/20/2005 7:50:27 AM PDT by Salo (WWFSMD?)

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To: Salo

Ah--ya beat me this time

5 posted on 09/20/2005 7:53:09 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)

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To: Salo

www.avantbrowser.com

6 posted on 09/20/2005 7:58:49 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])

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To: Salo

Just downloaded Opera to check it out.

It has a nice built-in voice feature. That is good for people with vision problems and people who like the computer to read to them, especially long news articles.

[I have another browser, Fastbrowser, that has that feature. It is a great eye-saver.]

7 posted on 09/20/2005 8:03:20 AM PDT by TomGuy

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To: Salo

OmniWeb or Safari are better.

8 posted on 09/20/2005 8:05:29 AM PDT by Astronaut

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To: Salo

lol...

9 posted on 09/20/2005 8:06:10 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)

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To: Astronaut

Too bad Safari is Apple-only, because it is a great browser.

10 posted on 09/20/2005 8:11:13 AM PDT by Salo (WWFSMD?)

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To: Salo

I just downloaded it. Now I've got to figure out what to do with it.

Now have IE, Firefox, and Opera.

Good thing I've got a big, big hard disk.

11 posted on 09/20/2005 10:21:48 AM PDT by Ole Okie

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To: TomGuy

How does it handle misspelled words?

12 posted on 09/20/2005 10:33:34 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)

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To: Salo

Thanks for the alert....may have to look at it again.

13 posted on 09/20/2005 10:34:26 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)

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To: Salo

In a way, it's not Apple-only. The browser interface is, but the rendering engine, KHTML, is open source.

I've been using it for years under Linux.

14 posted on 09/20/2005 10:40:24 AM PDT by B Knotts

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