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Opera Releases Stable FreeBSD Browser
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."
"Who would think that a dead browser... "
Define dead. Percentage-wise, IE is the only browsezr that's alive.
Somehow they've found money to keep developing new versions of Opera, so I wouldn't be so quick to call it 'dead'.
"Derp de derp."
I am glad to see Opera available to yet another platform. Perhaps Opera is trying to become the netscape of Unix-land.
Opera is a lot faster than Mozilla, and I think it is a prime browser. I've been using it off and on for almost 2 years (I knew a guy who was from Norway, and was huge on this browser even back then).
This is awesome. Way to go Opera. Congrats FreeBSD.
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
Obviously, there were enough users willing to complain and request a native version to make development of a native version worthwhile.
there must be 10 times less BSD desktop users
Your probably right, but you know what? I'm glad developers don't always pay attention to things like that, because if they did Windows would be the only OS with any support what-so-ever. I'd dare say 95% of all desktop machines run Windows, if not more. So by your logic, supporting Linux or Mac OSX is a waste of time.
I happen to personally really like FreeBSD.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
Having Opera come out with a native browser for FreeBSD is a good thing but what is really needed is decent Java support.
Yahoo's reason for choosing PHP over Java/J2EE, is simply due to poor Java (especially threads) support in FreeBSD.
I am not using FreeBSD because Java support totally sucks compared to Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.