Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use

Opera Watch writes "Opera Software today announced that it would offer free licenses to higher education institutions. This is a change from the previous cost of $1000 (US) for unlimited licenses. It remains to be seen, however, whether Opera will allow schools to give standard Opera licenses to students to use on personal computers/laptops within campus at no additional cost, that came with the $1000 license fee. This comes after a respected university advised its students not to use Internet Explorer, for its lack of security. Opera Software said they are doing so in an effort to meet the student and university need for security on the Internet."

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Stereotypical not Prototypical

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Re:What advantages does Opera have over Firefox?

[TheRaven64]

I haven't used FireFox much, so I don't know how many of these features it misses, but here are a few of the things I liked about Opera:

• The ability to toggle image display with a single button.
• The option to switch to your own/no CSS with a single button press (including some nice options, such as one that shows structural tags). Very nice with sites with ugly CSS.
• Much better IE compatibility than any other browser I've used.
• Mouse gestures. I know they are available as a FireFox extension, but last time I checked this didn't support my favourite one: right-drag down on a link opens the link in a new tab.
• It's tiny. Really. Around 3MB for a full featured browser and mail client.
• Easy to change User Agent string for those sites that work fine in Opera but redirect you to a `You need IE' page anyway.
• Rembers open windows / tabs on exit, so you can restart browsing at exactly the same point.
• Tabs can be re-ordered by dragging them around the tab-bar (I don't know if FireFox does this, but it's a feature I really miss in Safari).

I'm sure there were several others.