Anyone recommend Opera?

[keekwai]

?Opera Software has permanently dropped the inclusion of advertising banners in the free version of its PC browser software. The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download...?

[carlton68]

Keekwai,

 

i was using opera before firefox came out. now i use opera when firefox has problems with a site, which isn't often the case. And for older less powerful computers (say less than pentium III) I prefer opera over firefox as there's a signifcant difference in performance on those oldies.

 

It's free, so try it yourself. If you're using IE then you'll love opera or firefox.

[chilli13]

best thing about opera is that its alone to support wml pages, continue from last session & pretend to be IE60 browser

ohh its rather fast too especially with scripts etc.

[ALHOLK]

I also find it slightly more stable than both MSIE and Firefox. I often use it for big downloads.

[carlton68]

Alholk,

 

for downloads I use 'Free Download Manager', great freeware that simply does what it's named. It can be used with all browsers. With Firefox I use the extension 'Flashgot' which is set to trigger 'Free Download Manager'.

Nice thing is, I sometimes download from a site that only gives 6KB per download (connection). 'Free Download Manager' opens several connections to that site so I get my download much faster.

 

You are right, operas download manager is superior (by miles) to Firefox or IE.

[kamui]

I use Opera as second bowser at work. It is fast, you can choose very nice styles for the browser and very important at work: the delete all internet traces button. :hubba:

[Guest]

I'll have to give Opera a try. I've used Foxfire on my P3-750 IBM laptop...and it was quite slow in making connections compared to IE. Thanks for the tip.

 

Carlton wrote:...'And for older less powerful computers (say less than pentium III) I prefer opera over firefox as there's a signifcant difference in performance on those oldies.'

[keekwai]

I use Firefox now but think I'll give Opera a try on my slightly challenged laptop. I do like the various extensions I've downloaded for Firefox, Flashblock for example, and may miss them. Does Opera have tabbed browsing?

[kamui]

keekwai said:

Does Opera have tabbed browsing?

 

Almost all browser inventions of the recent years where introduced by Opera first - like tabbed browsing.

[coops]

Yup, it's excellent, and now version 8.5 has done away with the banner ad.

 

Next innovation (available on a beta version) is built in Bittorrent download/support.

 

Take a few seconds to check out the keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures. I use the keyboard - key 1 or 2 to move between tabs and simultaneous right/left mouse clicks to move back/forward in a tab.

 

coops