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30th August 2005, 18:44 | #1 | Link |
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10th Anniversary: Free Opera registration keys
Hurry up - only today (30th August 2005 for Pacific Daylight Time), Opera has a birthday gift for everyone: Submit an e-Mail address via this form, and you will get free registration codes generated for several operating systems.
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30th August 2005, 20:42 | #4 | Link |
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got my keys!
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30th August 2005, 21:09 | #7 | Link |
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The news has been posted earlier on slashdot and opera site has been slashdoted (slow like h*ll) since
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30th August 2005, 21:31 | #8 | Link |
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Yeah, even the download page wouldn't load here :/
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30th August 2005, 21:41 | #9 | Link |
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well, Firefox is free and doesn't require registration to be ad-free
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31st August 2005, 02:13 | #10 | Link |
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Firefox is my first, then Opera is a good second. Too mych bulk to my taste and doesn,t render pages as cool as FF, but it's always better than IE
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31st August 2005, 04:48 | #11 | Link |
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Hey free is good. I was thinking all the same things. But I am still using FF. Opera is not bad though.
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Then just elect Opera ads by button od startup. Easy peasy...
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1st September 2005, 07:53 | #13 | Link |
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Cheater!
In fact: I don't know who really needs mouse gestures or voice activation (IMHO, this made it some "bloatware", remember when it only took one diskette). But still, there are several details of behaviour I got used to, so I must state: I usually prefer Opera (currently still v7). |
1st September 2005, 13:03 | #14 | Link |
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I use mouse gesture on FF. Pretty usefull! I feel naked whitout
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3rd September 2005, 16:36 | #15 | Link |
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Got my keys and must say it's really not bad though it seems like it's not extensible like Firefox which has some darn good extensions like Sage.
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Opera 2.x(!) was the first, and for very along time the only browser, offering "page/text zoom", user defined [contrasting] colors, instant no-table and no-image display etc. for exactly that reason and audience, 'cos none of the "big two" (MSIE3 and NS4) had such options -- and them incl. FF still suffer from such supporting features. If web-access had been at the same level/price back in 1995/96 as it's now, Opera would have able to kick-off MSIE/NS from user desktops just as FF is now, beeing fully free at that time. I have various versions installed (try this with IE) to cross-test my websites for "standard compliance", but I browse with FF with a bunch of extensions installed. Have fun and happy surfing, CirTap
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20th September 2005, 18:45 | #18 | Link |
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Opera is now free
Gone is adware Opera. It's now free. Apparently the 10th Anniversary give-away was so popular, it clued the company into how much market share they were losing in trying to make a buck on ads. You can still buy Opera to support the company and for tech support.
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20th September 2005, 19:06 | #19 | Link |
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I wonder if there is a browser that is easily extensible like in MS Office or OpenOffice I can throw in some VB code in a few minutes if a particular feature is missing. Once I tried to find out how to do a little Firefox extension and within 20 minutes I didn't even find a single hint about how to get started.
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20th September 2005, 19:36 | #20 | Link | |
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Congratulations to Opera Software ASA for their decision, anyway. It's a good move. And their suite (yes, suite, not just "a browser") keeps getting better and better (e.g. integrated BitTorrent support definitely is a great idea - like so many other novelties they introduced in the past), while keeping size and resources use very limited. One of the very few companies that got nowadays' "integrate-everything-into-a-single-software" motto the right way. Some guys in Redmond should take a look and learn cheers, virus aka "rm ~/opera_codes.txt" |
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