Lowyat.NET -> Opera Thread

Lowyat.NET Lowyat.NET Rules and Regulations

FAQ Help Search Members Calendar

Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+

Opera Thread, Strong competitor of IE and Firefox! (Official)

Track this topic | Email this topic | Print this topic

Panda

Sep 20 2005, 06:03 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #1

Regular

Group: Junior Member
Posts: 186
Joined: January 2003

Opera 8.50 Released: Now completely free of charge!

In what could be considered a very surprising move, and one that easily could shake the browser market, Opera has made it's award winning browser available to the masses for free, void of it's built in Advertisement Banner, giving people the choice of one of the most powerful, flexible and a very secure web browser.

Opera Software today permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its award-winning Web browser. The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download - completely free of charge - at http://www.opera.com.

"Today we invite the entire Internet community to use Opera and experience Web browsing as it should be," said Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "Removing the ad banner and licensing fee will encourage many new users to discover the speed, security and unmatched usability of the Opera browser."

Opera was previously available free of charge with an ad banner. Users had the option of paying a licensing fee to remove the ad banner and receive premium support.

"Opera fans around the globe made this day possible," said von Tetzchner. "As we grow our userbase, our mission and our promise remain steadfast: we will always offer the best Internet experience to our users - on any device. Today this mission gains new ground."

In contrast, seeing as how Opera made their browser available for a day on their 10th anniversary, some may have seen this move coming. Regardless, Being one of the fastest and the most standard compliant browser, Opera may well have opened a new chapter in the browser wars.

Source: http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?category=main&id=30512

for more, please read:

http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/09/20/

http://opera.com/?transform=none

Edit: Edited topic description

This post has been edited by shockw@ve: Jul 29 2006, 03:49 PM

sampride

Sep 20 2005, 08:34 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #2

http://web-hosting.net.my

Group: Senior Member
Posts: 1,637
Joined: January 2003
From: KL

Truely opera supporter
from opera to firefox, now back to opera.....hehe
firefox? how long can it be?

exploit here and there

samurai1337

Sep 20 2005, 08:48 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #3

Truly Asian
Group Icon

Group: Staff
Posts: 10,143
Joined: January 2003
From: Area 51

Using opera to surf LYN now
Is there any way to emulate firefox's adblock?

This post has been edited by samurai1337: Sep 20 2005, 09:23 PM

6GDominator

Sep 20 2005, 11:12 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #4

ThE NeW SpAm KiNg~.~

Group: Senior Member
Posts: 3,400
Joined: April 2005
From: The Great L'verpool Training Academy , Cher@S

so we are using the opera now? anyone try this opera? better than IE and FF?

asellus

Sep 21 2005, 12:18 AM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #5

Moar Neckstabs!
Group Icon

Group: Elite
Posts: 2,991
Joined: January 2003
From: ERXKBU01 Access Concentrator

Still no RTF formatting in GMail, so sticking for Firefox for now.

tsinikal

Sep 21 2005, 12:22 AM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #6

Regular

Group: Junior Member
Posts: 219
Joined: January 2003
From: Penang

QUOTE

Using opera to surf LYN now
Is there any way to emulate firefox's adblock?

in the preferences>general "block unwanted pop-ups"

This post has been edited by tsinikal: Sep 21 2005, 12:23 AM

samurai1337

Sep 21 2005, 07:20 AM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #7

Truly Asian
Group Icon

Group: Staff
Posts: 10,143
Joined: January 2003
From: Area 51

QUOTE(tsinikal @ Sep 21 2005, 12:22 AM)

in the preferences>general "block unwanted pop-ups"

I mean ad-banners, not pop-ups

Something like this
user posted image

Mats01

Sep 21 2005, 12:08 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #8

Regular

Group: Junior Member
Posts: 160
Joined: January 2003
From: Hellooo..

here's some ad blocker (but i haven't tried it myself)
http://www.operaadfilter.com/

or using ccs:
http://members.chello.nl/b.kroonspecker/opera/
http://members.chello.nl/b.kroonspecker/op...r/AdBlocker.css

navilink

Sep 21 2005, 08:11 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #9

Sonic Chronicles: Dark Brotherhood! D-eliciou-S!

Group: Senior Member
Posts: 8,523
Joined: January 2003
From: kL4nG rul3z!

opera user since the paleolithic age!!! hahaah...since Opera 5...i still have Opera 5 in my comp....damm cool...

Firefox? nah...

free? wow...the best freeware since Winamp...

FiSHjIGN

Sep 21 2005, 08:23 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #10

Regular

Group: Junior Member
Posts: 108
Joined: December 2004
From: Johor, Malaysia

so.. which is better? firefox or opera?

samurai1337

Sep 21 2005, 08:33 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #11

Truly Asian
Group Icon

Group: Staff
Posts: 10,143
Joined: January 2003
From: Area 51

QUOTE(FiSHjIGN @ Sep 21 2005, 08:23 PM)

so.. which is better? firefox or opera?

The answer is: The one suits you the best

There is no point using the one that most people said is best
But rather use the one that you think is the best. So why don't try both and judge yourself?

FiSHjIGN

Sep 21 2005, 08:37 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #12

Regular

Group: Junior Member
Posts: 108
Joined: December 2004
From: Johor, Malaysia

haha, lazy to dl opera atm

Show-Time

Sep 21 2005, 09:26 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #13

Regular

Group: Junior Member
Posts: 301
Joined: January 2003
From: S.I.L.V.E.R.

Just downloaded opera and installed.

Anyone found lowyat.net main page got a little bit run out of place. For example the search bar and the menu beside the search bar.

kelvin9986

Sep 21 2005, 10:01 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #14

r3t|R3d p|ggy(R)

Group: Senior Member
Posts: 3,572
Joined: October 2004
From: 痴心无人岛

opera makan ur pc memory la
need a lot of memory

sampride

Sep 21 2005, 10:52 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #15

http://web-hosting.net.my

Group: Senior Member
Posts: 1,637
Joined: January 2003
From: KL

not like this la
firefox also makan alot when u open long and a lot of tap

samurai1337

Sep 21 2005, 11:26 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #16

Truly Asian
Group Icon

Group: Staff
Posts: 10,143
Joined: January 2003
From: Area 51

QUOTE(kelvin9986 @ Sep 21 2005, 10:01 PM)

opera makan ur pc memory la
need a lot of memory

QUOTE(sampride @ Sep 21 2005, 10:52 PM)

not like this la
firefox also makan alot when u open long and a lot of tap

Memory consumption is totally up to the usage
Open 5 tabs with all flash animations and expect to get something like 50MB of usage

And another thing is, the more RAM you have, the more your browser tends to utilize in order to make the program run much smoother. There is no use to have 2GB of RAM but the utilization is low.

When opening exactly the same pages, Firefox resource consumption might be 10% more than opera, or it could be the other way round, but IMO neither of this matters. For PC with at least 512MB of RAM, Firefox or Opera will run just smooth without hindering PC performance.

So I don't see much point of comparing against one another.
Anyway there is a thread for browser wars so please kindly discuss there and leave this thread for pure Opera 8.5 discussion from now on
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=194434

Sorry for any inconvenience caused

Daniel89

Sep 22 2005, 10:46 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #17

Freak

Group: Senior Member
Posts: 1,049
Joined: July 2005

I was wondering why my firefox wont open in tab and i already set it.Everytime also open new window

samurai1337

Sep 22 2005, 10:49 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #18

Truly Asian
Group Icon

Group: Staff
Posts: 10,143
Joined: January 2003
From: Area 51

QUOTE(Daniel89 @ Sep 22 2005, 10:46 PM)

I was wondering why my firefox wont open in tab and i already set it.Everytime also open new window

Firefox thread is here
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=84927

Please stay on topic

boringpig

Sep 22 2005, 10:57 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #19

* kero~ kero~ kero~ *

Group: Senior Member
Posts: 1,157
Joined: January 2003
From: somewhere in the galaxy *~o~o*-*

never use before.. but might go and download to try and do some comparison with firefox.. i use firefox by default on my laptop and IE on my desktop (u know lah, parent's using and the like simple thing.. too lazy to explain if they ask y not use this or y want to use this..)

eek-1

Sep 22 2005, 11:53 PM

Show posts by this member only |Rating BETA (0+, 0-) | Post #20

Regular

Group: Junior Member
Posts: 409
Joined: January 2003

I like the mouse gesture a lot. Lately it's becoming a habit that I seldom accidentally [right-click]-[left-click] to go back a page in Windows Explorer, lol

« Next Oldest · Internet Related · Next Newest »