Opera 7 to be Released for Mac OS X

hoist2k writes "CNET is reporting that Opera 7 is going to be released for Mac OS X. I might have to take advantage of their discount for buying the Mac, Linux, and Windows versions all at once!" Opera 6.02 is slated for release on Thursday (the download page currently has Opera 6.0 for Mac OS and Mac OS X, though it erroneously says it is only for Mac OS). Opera 7 is expected "soon," with no word given in the CNET articles for whether it will be for Mac OS X only.

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Re:Opera

[wtmcgee]

not on the mac though.... i agree opera on windows is a top notch browser - but the mac version is well behind other FREE alternatives right now.

i'm glad to see opera developing on the mac platform - it's great to see so many competing browsers for a change - but i just don't think they have what it takes to be considered even one of the top 3 browsers on the mac right now.

Re:Opera

[singularity]

The only thing missing from Camino and Safari (or any browser, for that matter) is the filtering power of iCab.

Use iCab for a week, and use the filtering power.

Want to always save cookies from Slashdot, refuse cookies from Doubleclick.net, and expire others at the end of the session? Done.

Want to identify to your bank as Netscape 7.0 and all other sites as iCab 2.9? Done.

Want to filter out images coming from a server named *.ads.*, or images that link to *.sponsor.*? Done.

Want to allow your favorite anime site to open new windows on opening, allow a pictures site to open pictures in new windows on clicking, and refuse pop-ups from everyone else? Done.

Yes, I realize that Mozilla can do a lot of this, but iCab provides a relatively easy to use graphical interface to all of this.

I think the world would be a much better place if people took a look at iCab's Filter Manager.

[I still use iCab for about 60% of my browsing, with Safari taking up the rest. iCab is just getting too slow and is not compatible with enough stuff]

Re:Opera

[critter_hunter]

I'll agree that Opera 6 for Mac sucked, and sucked hard. I downloaded it about as soon as it got out of beta, but it still felt like a beta version. It was slow and unresponsive, and it crashed a few times (in very little time, and crashed HARD). I went back to Camino (which back then was still called Chimera, I think).

However, Opera 7 on both PC and Linux has been a HUGE improvement over O6. Hopefully these improvements will carry over to MacOSX. Afterall, they have a lot of competition on a small market with Macs (Mac users, however, seem to pay for shareware more readily than PC users). If they still want to compete, it must be because they feel they *can* compete, and they are confident that their product is better than the other parties' offerings.

So anyway, I'd wait till I see it before I say that it's going to suck.