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Opera 7.10 Released (First Opera 7.x For Linux)
joshieck writes "The much awaited (at least I know I've been waiting for it) Opera 7.10 has been released. This marks the first release of Opera 7.x for linux, and is a cause for rejoicing.
Even if it is a 'beta,' it's opera, so you know it's gonna be good. Go get it at Opera.com, or go right to the download page. From the Press Release: 'Opera Software today released Opera 7.10 for Windows and Opera 7.10 for Linux Beta with features that are not only new to Opera, but also completely new to the world of browsing. Right from the beginning, users can see the two new buttons FastForward and Rewind in the toolbar, accelerating Opera users' Web navigation. Users can also speed up researching with the completely new Notes features or view photo files with SlideShow.'"
I'm my experience of using both Mozilla and Opera, I have found Mozilla the best place to be. Opera has too many errors displaying pages, and overall wasn't very smooth for me. Mozilla, on the other hand, worked exrememly well after I set it up. The only problem I have is that the site www.worth1000.com somehow changes to www.worthl000.com (with an L). Strangely enough, it's only been in 1.3 final and only for that site (vh1.com works, not that you'd want to go there. I just did a Google search on '1' for a url...). Both, however, are superior to IE. The tabbed browsing is really the reason that they are better. Both Opera and Mozilla are pretty equal though, excluding the display errors on Opera. But if you can live with those, it's a toss up.
If you hang around on opera.linux, the guys at opera have been posting about preview releases for awhile now. They're really nice about people's input and critcism (thanks Espen!)
Vote for global prefs bug
Is that the correct model ?
I am scared of putting any adware on my PC. I don't care if Opera is THE browser. I still refuse to even give it a shot.
And for those of you who will say "Why not pay the odd 40$ and buy the ad free version.". I would say "Why should i dish out 40 $ when i can do with perfectly competetive products like mozilla or phoenix or god-forbidden even IE ?"
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
I bank with TD Canada Trust, and have always been able to use most of the features of the site through Opera. Now, it just refuses to log me in. The page never updates, nothing. This is a real shame, since the fast forward button labels itself 'log in', which is exactly what I want. If this one thing worked, it would be just about the perfect browser.
Oh, well. I'll use Phoenix for banking and Opera for everything else until they fix it. (I DID submit a bug report.)
is it really that hard for Opera to fix their "various display" problems?
It is when the display problem is the web page's fault. I took a look at the page in Konq 3.1. By default, it rendered wrong. Then, I told Konq to lie to the web server and report that it was IE. Behold, a perfectly rendered page!
As an ISP, they should know better...
David
One of the really nice features with Opera is you can set a preference so that it identifies itself as IE of Mozilla. This makes browsing the web very easy as you get no errors being thrown about not having a supported browser. This does lead to inaccurate statistics from web servers. Whatever about not getting errors, I cannot set my default browser to Opera yet as there are still some sites which dont work in it e.g. www.ifilm.com. If administrators never see Opera showing up on their logs they are not going to design for it either.
I used some the 5.x and 6.x versions of Opera for a while but eventually got tired of constantly running into web sites that don't display properly. I tried Opera 7 briefly, and although it looks really cool and seems to be really fast, Opera's programmers are, unfortunatley, still stuck in their mindset of "we're going to strictly adhere to a set of web standards, despite the fact that 95% of the web sites in the world don't follow those standards."
Too many creators of "alternative" browsers are hung up on the idea that making a browser that can handle crappy designed-for-MSIE web pages somehows equals selling your soul to the devil.
Mozilla made the same mistake early on, but they finally woke up to the fact that MSIE, not W3C, is the standard, and you *CAN* make a browser that handles most of the crappy designed-for-MSIE web pages out there *AND* still has lots of innovative features -- the two are not mutually exlusive.
Too much wasted screen real estate. Those of us that only have 1024*768 screen resolutions hate that wasted junk at the top. And no, I don't buy web browsers. Too many free alternatives to do that.
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Fonts are ugly as hell. Konqueror / Nautilus / Mozilla all look much better. Even on
The speed is nice. So is a functional "cnn" takes you to "http://www.cnn.com/" and such.
That being said... I will try it for a week or so (using it now).
I installed Opera 7.xx (I think it was 7.0) on a P1 133 and it sucked.. WAY TOO MUCH graphics for old, slow machines. I dumped it and went back to 6.05 and it was just fine on that slug slow laptop.
I installed 6.xx (I forget) on my Mandrake 9.0 box and I just didn't like it. I actually am one of the few that LIKES Konqueror.
I've gotten used to Konqueror and will stay with it.
On a Winbloz box I LOVE Opera, it whips ass, but beware, eveyrone is pushing new versions of everything (including for Linux) that *assumes* everyone uses they newest, fastest box available.
Not so, some people have old clunkers around.
My MDK 9.1 box is a P4 w/200gigs, 512ddr Gf4-Ti4200, it's really decent..
My laptop sucks, it runs on Flintstone brand batteries. My son uses a K6-2 400mhz and it's pretty klunky but he's a Playstation2 kind of guy and Opera 6.05 works best on his box, I tried 7.x on it and it sucked.
So, you coders out there, lighten up on the graphics PLEASE! There is more to life than eye candy!
Or, in Opera 7.10, you can just click on the first link (if the links link to images) and fast-forward to the next image.