I know awhile back when I clicked on FR that my virus alert would tell me that this site is blocked and proceed only at your own risk. Others on here reported the same thing, and Jim Rob said he was aware of it and had started working with the various virus detection people. It cleared up (or my system learned that I did not see it as a threat - not sure which).
I just punched it up in Opera. It came right up. it didn’t recognize me (wanted me to log in), but it showed up with no problem.
One of the Libraries in my region blocks FR...but not DU.
If your wanting to see video from twitter I suggest you download Chrome. Wasn’t a fan of Chrome but young son insisted and I’ve found it really is friendly to posting and viewing twitter news and video.
please, no one say it. any of it. leave it alone, please. just this once. I’m begging . . .
I’m using Opera on my phone and it works great.
My wife’s Android with the 6.0 operating system has Opera.
I just tested it.
It connected to Free Republic actually a little faster than my Chromebook does, and that is about 6 times as fast as Win 10 on my Toshiba Laptop.
I was able to log into my account with no problem.
It appears do it via Google.
Hmm now Opera won’t load any page. Got to go out, I will check later, not abiggy there are lots of browsers to choose from Opera!
Are you using a VPN? PrivateInternetAccess VPN has been blocked by FR. That’s one cause.
Opera after about release 12 has had a chrome engine (darn it).
Opera doesn’t have parental controls, so I’m not sure how it might have blocked FR.
Do you have any web site blocker extensions installed ?
Is it possible it’s blocked at a firewall or windows account level ?
i use Opera and no problems on my laptop.
You got Opera for a song, so what is the problem...?
Opera 47.0, running on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (x86_64; Unity).
FR is AOK.
All is well.
There has been some alleged dispute about the certificate for the site - that was Mozilla’s warning message, like the owner claimed by the certificate was not the same as the registered owner - or some such like that. I think it all has to do with having and “qualifying” as a “https” url, which is supposed to mean a “secure” url listing.
My Firefox was giving me security warnings for Free Republic all the time, once. It seems to be ok now.
I use Opera mobile on my phone without any issues, and have for years. If I have issues at all , it’s when FR is having issues of its own.