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Opera Browser Email client Best internet browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Switch to the Opera web browser Opera Internet Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser Switch to Opera today

Opera Browser Email client Best internet browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Switch to the Opera web browser Opera Internet Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser Switch to Opera today

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

Opera Browser Email client Best browser Best Internet experience The fastest browser on earth Best browser Opera Browser E-mail Pop-up blocking Tabbed browsing Opera Opera Browser

The best web browser is Opera. Try it out, you won't be disappointed.

Come chat with us at the Opera forums and hang out at the lounge.

The best web browser is Opera. Try it out, you won't be disappointed.

Come chat with us at the Opera forums and hang out at the lounge.

The best web browser is Opera. Try it out, you won't be disappointed.

Come chat with us at the Opera forums and hang out at the lounge.

The best web browser is Opera. Try it out, you won't be disappointed.

Come chat with us at the Opera forums and hang out at the lounge.

Ohthankgod, I had thought aliens had secretly killed everybody else that knew machine language.

Also encouraging is things like Operas archive where you can still get an award winningly small (gads, only 3.4M) browser.

So I dunno if I share the doom and gloom of the article. To some extent eveythings eventually ends up in it's simplest and most efficient form because we aren't the only ones here that want KISS.

What's a popup?

Wait... [thinks long and hard] ... that's one of those Internet Explorer afflictions, isn't it?

Take one of these, six times a day:
Mozilla, Opera, etc etc etc

Sheesh! Anonymous cowards these days! When I was a lad, etc etc etc

(Opera)'s small and fast as hell too...

On my Mac I run Safari, IE, Mozilla and Opera. Opera is the slowest to load, taking five times longer than Safari, despite being half the size. It also renders Opera's own site so slowly as to be unusable - I did a comparison the other day, and Safari rendered the site at least four times faster. Opera even beachballs for half a second when hovering over a link requires re-rendering (as all the links at Opera.com do). The only reason I ever run it is to test CSS comptibility, where it is good - although its JavaScript/legacy DOM support is abominable.

one name - Opera for Linux, Windows, Mac and other OSes. not only Google search but others too (Lycos, Ebay, Dealtime...). not to mention popup blocking, image, video, mp3 search, zoom function, tabbed browsing... and it's small and fast as hell too... and all out of the box. without extensions and others -tensions...

It's Google AdWords, and it affects all browsers with JavaScript enabled. It's just Opera passes the info on to Google even with it off. The info on the text-based ads is here: http://www.opera.com/adsupport/ (DON'T CLICK IT! IT'S A LINK!)

You can also switch to graphical ads, which doesn't pass any info.

"opera is, by design, a memory-heavy web browser"

Also, Opera has to fit on memory limited devices such as smartphones. I'd like to see you embed Gecko on such a device and get the same speed. Opera already exists on a number of mobile devices. That alone proves that your claim about being memory heavy is false.

I see others have recommended Mozilla Firebird. It's a great browser indeed, and open source.

However, I recommend Opera. It's small, fast, very standards-compliant, and has lots of nice features that make browsing the web just a little more comfortable. Examples:

Don't want to wait for those graphics to load? Press G to stop loading them. You can selectively view some images if you need to.

Can't read the fonts? Color scheme ticking you off? Press Ctl+G to use the default stylesheet. Black text on white background, couldn't be more legible. Don't like the default stylesheet? Don't worry, you can change it.

Type g litigious bastards in the address bar to search for litigious bastards on Google.

Bookmark pages and assign aliases to them to surf there quickly. For example, I used sd for Slashdot and osn for OSNews.

I don't like mouse gestures, but some people love them. Opera does, too.

Etc, etc.

It's a pity Opera on Linux keeps crashing. On Windows, it's great, though.

Also if you can also educate others into non-IE browsers that will help marketshare and make more sites develop to the standards and not to MS only HTML/JS. Although to be honest I know of very few IE only sites, and I never need to use them anyway, YMMV.

What do we do now to protect our computer from spyware? Regularly update and run adaware. What will we do with WinFS? Regularly update and run adaware longhorn. No problem. I haven't had spy/adware in freaking years; of course, it helps that I've switched to a superior browser...

What else is new? Why do people insist on using Internet Explorer when there are better alternatives elsewhere?

... except for the wording, and it does not show the password.

Go to http://www.opera.com/ and see for yourself.

Tux2000 <-- Opera is my default browser

You may want to try Opera. It lets you configure the number of simultanous connections to servers. If you increase it to 100 or so, you will have to wait once for the HTML, and once more for all the images.

Opera's Google "Rads" are static text banners served by Google. No blinking, no animation, no nothing. In Opera 7.50, the ad banner is even smaller. Blinky banners indeed... It's OK to be a Firebird fan, but there's no reason to spread FUD.

and for those of us that dont mind small adds, opera will do.

For those of us that don't feel like switching to another OS, Opera will do.

> Back a few months ago I was developing software [...] I emailed Google about whether or not their AdWords
> could be used in a software environment and they said not at the current moment

That's odd since the Opera browser has Google ads.

Who couldn't ever run another browser like Mozilla or Opera or MyIE2 because NONE of those come in Windows versions... Oh, wait, they ALL com in Windows versions (and MyIE2 is Windows only). Windows is at no disadvantage at all in terms of having popup blocking available. The included browser just does not have it. I've been happily using MyIE2 for quite some time and dealt with no popups as a result.

Golly, I'm glad Microsoft is all over this one, because God knows nobody else would ever have thought to do it.

But no. It looks like they're just adhering to web standards for their vertical app. Which I appreciate, don't get me wrong, but they might as well have been saying they were embracing Opera.

My company uses FreeBSD 5 on half of our desktop machines in the office. All the PCs for customer service and general-purpose use are all running:

• KDE 3.14 and its included apps
• the FreeBSD-native version of Opera
• the FreeBSD-native TextMaker word-processor
• Mozilla Firebird
• Everything like XMMS, Acrobat, and mplayer you know from Linux-land work just fine in FreeBSD

The fonts are anti-aliased and beautiful. I find it easier on the eyes than Windows or OS X.

It only takes us about an hour to set up a whole new ready-to-go office desktop PC for the office, using FreeBSD ports. And we LOVE that all boxes' apps are kept automatically updated every night using the portupgrade scripts.

If you're thinking of dabbling with FreeBSD as a desktop I can highly recommend it.

In fact I'm typing this on my Gateway laptop with FreeBSD 4.9 right now. Here are some FreeBSD laptop compatibility lists if you want to see if yours will work.

The verdict

My favourite pop-up blocker with Mozilla, with Opera a close second. I'd go with Opera if it weren't for Adblock from Mozdev.org.

Are companies still paying for that shit? I can't imagine them getting anything approaching a good return on investment for popup ads these days.

It's all about the marketing. Earthlink and AOL (or several other unnamed ISPs) advertise their mad pop up blocking features in their newest products on TV. Typical computer user sees the commericals and thinks "damn, I hate pop ups, I can never stop them. They are annoying. I'll get Earthlink/AOL and beat those nasty pop up advertisers once and for all! Where's my credit card?"

The fact that you can download a free browser like Mozilla or Opera that will install and run on your Windows system doesn't matter to typical computer user. If it's free, who supports it? If I'm paying for it, it's probably good software. They wouldn't make those clever ads with the "Six Million Dollar Man" music if it wasn't good software, would they?

You don't actually have to make a better product, you just have to convince enough people that your product is better. Then call it "Optimized" or something like that. Sounds good, but what does it do for you?

I tried to help, but unfortunately Opera doesn't seem to be mirroring the Bork Edition any more.

" the KHTML engine rocks and could make great inroads against IE (compared to Mozilla/MozFirebird, which doesn't seem as fast as IE to load or as responsive on low-end hardware, even though it's a superior browser/renderer engine)."

"would like to certify that my projects work in KHTML

However, it does have some way to go before it can rival Mozilla and Opera when it comes to standards compliance. But with Apple behind it, it might turn out to be better at that in the future.

The Inquirer isn't always trustable, one might say. For example, it posted an article about the Opera web browser, claiming that it was spyware. This is of course nonsense, and the author of the article never even did any research - he just jumped to conclusions. Opera was never even given a chance to respond to these false accusations. It was later half-way retracted.

It would have been OK if they had completely retracted the story without trying to wash their hands and come up with bad excuses, but their excuse was more of the "it wasn't really our falt" kind.

They even said that they contacted Opera's "PR company" to get a response (after the article was posted). Strange that, since Opera apparently handles its own PR. The "PR company" is part of Opera, and not a different company at all.

I just tried an interesting experiment:

Opera allows you to change the idetification string sent in the "User Agent" HTTP header - you know, the bit that tells them whether your using Mozilla, IE, Opera, etc...

If I leave it identifying as Opera, I get the bullshit MSDN deeptreeconfig.xml. However, if I change the browser identification to MSIE6, i get the article as desired!!

This has happened before (see details of the Opera "Bork" edition) but I thought M$ had stopped this childish game - seems maybe not...