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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 may be cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    But I think its time is close to done. It used to be a really nice little package. It would run off of a floppy on a 386 with only 6 megs of ram. Since then they have added nothing but bloat to it. It started with version 4, they made the mistake of adding a news and email client. Later version of the 4 series added Sun's Java plugin (which was and still is one of the only plugins that work with opera). With version 5 came the ads, and countless compatibility issues with sites that were coded to the exacting html standards.

    Needless to say, I gave up on opera a long time ago, and have since moved on to the efficient, stable, and standard compliant Mozilla browser.

  2. Re:A banner in the browser. by dinivin · · Score: 1, Troll

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

    So if you buy it, they will get rid of every ad on every web page I visit? Now that is worth paying for. Otherwise, forget it.

    Dinivin

  3. So where are the insightful opensourcers? by dzym · · Score: 1, Troll

    Opera is neither free as in speech nor free as in beer.

    Where are our favorite open source zealot insightful comments?

  4. Anything but that! by fmaxwell · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...or go to Netscape or Mozilla...

    [sarcasm]Yep! We must do anything we can to avoid paying money to people who develop high quality software. When a company offers a good software product at a fair price, we have to immediately start looking for free alternatives.

    Remember, if we all work together, we can drive small, innovative companies like the one that produces Opera out of business. If we really try hard, we might even be able to increase unemployment and drive down wages in the software engineering field![/sarcasm]