Comments on: Opera goes free — banners and licensing begone!

By: Hallvord R. M. Steen

Hallvord R. M. Steen — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:36:22 +0000

Ralph: since no major version upgrade has been released since Opera went free with 8.5 I can only guess that you have installed a technical preview of Opera 9 or something. Of course a preview or beta will have more problems than a final release. That’s the whole point. The looong beta cycle with many public releases Opera 9 is being taken through shows how seriously Opera is working on improving it.

By: ralph

ralph — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:04:47 +0000

OPERA goes free, quality goes down. Many bugs to force customers to buy supported package. Cryptic configuration. Opens multiple unwanted windows on start up. indifferent site staff OPERA went from elegant to clunky in one revision!

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Nintendo DS gives Opera browser the nod

Make You Go Hmm: » Nintendo DS gives Opera browser the nod — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:57:37 +0000

[…] I became an almost instant fan of Opera after finally using it (it’s free now) it and am happy to see Nintendo embracing Opera for their Nintendo DS system: Advanced Media has received word that one of several new announcements to be made at a Nintendo DS conference in Japan will be the unveiling of a new Web Browser for the dual-screen handheld. Early reports indicate that the browser will be powered by Opera Software technology. […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Microsoft not singing at the Opera

Make You Go Hmm: » Microsoft not singing at the Opera — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:39:41 +0000

[…] The reality is I’ve not been able to stop using Opera every day since I downloaded it. It’s clearly a superior and often overlooked browser except for its million plus dedicated users. I keep using Opera more and more and understand that user passion. Yes, Firefox rocks, but the CPU consumption with all those running extensions doesn’t. Opera is streamlined and gets the job done without the frills. The sessions function is incredibly handy. I could go on. Should go on. If you haven’t downloaded and tried Opera, give it a try now. It’s free. There is no reason not to at least try using it. You could be hooked too. […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Opera free because of Google tenancy, says Om

Make You Go Hmm: » Opera free because of Google tenancy, says Om — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:10:44 +0000

[…] One of the first things I noticed in my first look at Opera 8.5 was how Google was the primary search and then I wondered how easy it was to tweak the search. Reader, Hallvord R. M. Steen replies: Depends on the definition of “easily”. You need to edit an INI - file, or download a third-party tool that gives you a GUI for it, written by an Opera fan. It’s not as simple as it should be. […]

By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:30:29 +0000

Man - go ahead and say: “I told you so” — you would be right. This was a smart move on Opera’s part, I think. Makes them much more likely to become a serious player now. I bet their download counter is going bonkers.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:28:57 +0000

Great tip, Roger, thank you!

By: Roger L. Waggener

Roger L. Waggener — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:10:14 +0000

“Bummer if you are working on something and it crashes.”

One neat feature of Opera is that you can set the startup parameters so that when you restart opera it reopens everything exactly as it was when you closed it- including page position. On top of that, it continuously records the active session so that if on the off chance that Opera crashes, a restart will return to the exact state just before the crash.

To get this functionality, go to Tools > Preferences and set the Startup pull down to ‘Continue from last time’. Also, if you’d like to choose on each startup whether to go to your home session or continue from last time select ‘Show startup dialog’ from the bottom of the same pull down mentioned above. It’s one more click on startup, but if you want it to primarily start with your home session, but give you the option to recover the last state, this is the most flexible configuration.

I have been using Opera for years and am still finding cool new features.

By: Make You Go Hmm: » New Pubsub daily 1000 list needs heart transplant ASAP

Make You Go Hmm: » New Pubsub daily 1000 list needs heart transplant ASAP — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:10:39 +0000

[…] Now onto the PubSub site stats. I’ll use MakeYouGoHmm for my commentary because I know the stats for that site and compare against how good PubSub performed. First of all, the stats shows zero posted blog entries for Tuesday? Actually according to the publish dates on the blog there were five posts yesterday: Opera goes free — banners and licensing begone!, Calacanis has Dear Abby aspirations, Google 20% project nets secure WiFi in San Francisco, Feds raise interest rate .25 to 3.25% and 4 million PayPass cards by year end, plans Mastercard. […]

By: Man

Man — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:23:13 +0000

I don’t want sound like one of those I told you so people but recently you wrote “Microsoft: Firefox officially competition” and I commented “Expect a big jump in Opera.”

Mostly because I’m using Opera now and it’s great I skinned it blue and it looks great, zoom feature is great and I’m still finding new features, like there About Opera; it shows so much good info.