Opera 6.0 for Linux Released

e1en0r writes "Opera released 6.0 for Linux and 6.02 for Windows today. The new features include cookie management and plug-in support. I've been using the beta release of Opera 6 for a while now and it's great."

Comments

Great!

[new_breed]

no more netscape, no more lynx...surfing the internet sure has gotten attractive now on Linux. A good browser was still missing in the linux environment..

Re:Java

[dirvish]

Yeah, what the hell? How is this off-topic?

Attention moderators, please set down your crack pipes.

Sorry, Mozilla is TOO good

[evilviper]

Opera is a very good browser, as far as the engine goes, but it comes up short where the interface is concerned.

If you have multiple tabs open, and close one, the next one made active is the one last opened. That means that the order can been terribly random. With Mozilla, you close one tab and it takes you to the next one to the left. Quite simple.

Opera's interface has always been bulky, and a bit weird. You have forward and back buttons on the main toolbar, but the stop button (was) only on the windows' toolbar.

Mozilla allows you to better customize javascript permissions, and don't even get me started on Opera's bookmark system (hotlist).

As far as I'm concerned, the only thing Opera has to offer that Mozilla hasn't, is the button to easilly toggle from 'Autor' to 'User' Mode. What this does is allow you on a per-window basis to easilly switch between the colors & fonts the page has defined, and the color/font you have defined. You'll appreciate this if you've ever visited a page with fonts so small you couldn't read them, or page colors that either blind you, or blend the fonts with the bacground so you can't really read it.

I realize that Mozilla eats up much more Memory and CPU power, but that's just something the needs to be gradually improved on. Even as it is, it's requirements fit my machines just fine.