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Opera 6.0 for Linux Released

Posted by michael on from the no-ads-in-mozilla dept.

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."

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  1. Opera as fast alternative by Zelet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I first started comparing browsers Mozilla was slow as dirt and really buggy (fixed since then) and IE was/is insecure so I looked into Opera.

    At first I thought that the required ads were going to get annoying, but in truth, they weren't that bad at all. Plus, if I hated them that much I could pay a small fee and get rid of them.

    But the best part about Opera is it is the fastest html renderer there is out on the market as far as I am concerned. A second high point to Opera, is that it is completely standard compliant. Unlike some browsers... which one you ask? Um... IE maybe, but that could just be me.

    The winner in the pack now has to be Mozilla, but a close second right now is Opera.

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    ...And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." - Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
  2. Re:A banner in the browser. by rob_canoe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Which part of "Buy Opera today - For the best internet experience Ad Free" do you not understand?

  3. Re:ASP support? by Havokmon · · Score: 5, Insightful
    One thing that might help is to change how Opera identifies itself. On the version I have, it defaults to IE 5, when I have a problem I switch it to Netscape.

    Except it could be argued, How are we to level the playing field (removing IE-only sites), if we browse pretending to be IE?

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    "I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
  4. DOM support... by jvmatthe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have been working with javascript, DOM, CSS2 for fun in the evenings, and so far Opera doesn't do enough of what I want it to do. Mozilla seems to be the only browser that supports the DOM as outlined by the W3C, and for that reason, I won't be using it, regardless of how fast it is.

    See an example of what I've been doing with Mozilla here. It's a card game that I enjoy on my Handspring Visor and "ported". Works great in Mozilla, but dies in every other browser I've tried.

    Ah well. Go Moz!

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    Curmudgeon Gamer: Not happy
  5. Re:This is how it was meant to be! by Glytch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As long as Windows has 95% of the desktop OS market and IE is the preferred browser on that platform, all of the the browser competition on the Linux front is somewhat meaningless.

    Not to Linux users.