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Opera Releases Stable FreeBSD Browser

Posted by timothy on from the fat-lady-gargles dept.

1nsane0ne writes "The Register is reporting that Opera has released a production FreeBSD version. It appears to have fixed some of the problems that I found in a few hours of playing around with the betas and will be interesting to test a bit more."

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  1. Re:My Obligation by pfish · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's still very much alive...

    It may not be perfered by many, but it's still heavy in development, and prefered by many ISPs.

  2. Good to hear by Helmholtz+Coil · · Score: 5, Informative

    Very good to hear. I love my FreeBSD desktop dearly, and one of the last ties I had to enabling Linux compatibility was a release version of Opera. So far I have yet to find a better combination of

    • low-profile,
    • high speed, and
    • functionality
    in a single browser. Most of the other browsers I've come across were of the "choose any one of the above" variety. I've found niche uses for all of them, but Opera was the best choice on a old P75 for me.
    1. Re:Good to hear by Theom · · Score: 2, Informative

      Phoenix?

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    2. Re:Good to hear by phoenix_rizzen · · Score: 5, Informative

      It *IS* available in the ports tree. Has been for several weeks. /usr/ports/www/opera It's currently at 6.10 B1, though. Expect an update shortly to 6.10.

  3. The real news by schussat · · Score: 5, Informative
    The real news here isn't simply that the BSD version of Opera 6.1 has been released, but that 6.1 is now available generally for Linux -- both i*86 and PowerPC platforms. This is a really significant development, and it means that, as of right now, the Linux version of Opera is now at a higher release number than for Windows (which is at 6.05 right now). The Opera folks are really moving on Linux development.

    -schussat

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  4. Opera's appearance by rsax · · Score: 2, Informative
    I've tried Opera on Windows 2000 Pro, FreeBSD 4.6 and NetBSD 1.6 .. when I used it on *BSD, only the linux version was available and it had a really 'chunky' appearance which didn't match the rest of the KDE environment (the default one or the themes I tried). I know they have 2 versions of the browser available : a statically linked QT one and a dynamically linked one. I've tried both but no luck. Other than that it's a great, fast browser which I'd definetly like to purchase.

    That being said, as each day passes it's going to be harder and harder to pry Mozilla from my cold dead hands, especially with such great add-on software.

  5. Re:My Obligation by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wasnt happy with 4.6 FreeBSD, but when 4.7 came out, KDE3 compiled. Xfree drivers that worked for my video card. Koffice compiled without problem. Everything worked for KDE/Gnome.

    The biggest problem I had with FreeBSD was ports didnt compile, but 4.7 most ports I tried compiled out of the box. Only grip I have is, its still using gcc 2.95, while 3.2 is out. But I hear 5.0 is completely GCC3.3 based.

  6. Re:My Obligation by reg · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you tried installing a second compiler for ports... gcc 3.2.1 (which is in current) wont buy you anything with the base system, other than 15% slower compile times. But you can install the gcc32 port, and then use 'make CC=gcc32 CXX=g++32' to build ports such as KDE or Gnome which might benefit from the newer compiler. You might also want to insure that you use the correct -march setting for your machine also, because gcc 3.2.1 will generate worse code than 2.95 if you just leave it to the default arch (vanilla 386).

    Regards,
    -Jeremy

  7. A real Review by evilviper · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since this is severly lacking, I thought I'd let you know how Opera actually works (you know, instead of just saying how happy/unhappy I am, that it exists).

    I liked one think about the pre-release beta version... I didn't see any banner ads. It was likely accepting my Linux registration, despite not being the linux version.

    The release (6.1) does not accept a Linux registration key, and you have to register all over again... Understandable, but still irritating.

    That said, this is far better than the initial beta, or the Linux version under emulation. Just plain and simply, it is far more stable... I have yet to have it crash on me. Athough I've only been using it for a few hours, this is a very very good sign.

    Additionally, I was previously unable to paste text from a webpage in Opera into AbiWord, and a couple other apps. That has now gone away, and the clipboard is working (mostly) as it should.

    <RANT>
    That's step one. Now all they have to do is *completely* redesign the interface and I'll be a happy Opera user. Since that's probably not in the cards, I'll continue to use Opera as little as possible.
    </RANT>

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  8. Re:Presto - Where'd It Go? by 13Echo · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is looking like there will be a bit of a delay for the Linux and BSD versions of Presto, until some time after the Windows release. That is probably why they are trying to get 6.1 as stable as possible- to gear up for 7.0.

    Actually, I don't expect Presto to arrive on Linux until December or January, at the earliest.

  9. Re:I'm amazed Opera did that by RazzleDazzle · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24060.html 10 times less?

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