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Final Version of Wii Browser Now Available

Posted by Zonk on from the enjoy-your-www-button dept.

CVG points out that, as of today, the final version of the Wii Opera browser is available for download. Make sure and do the update sometime in the next month or so; as you might recall from the original announcement, it will only be free until the end of June. "You can finally ditch the trial version of the Opera browser and download the full and final package, which comes with added features, such as 'www.' and '.com' buttons as well as improved functionality like a faster boot-up and better zoom capability. You can download it right now for free, first by updating your system, then grabbing the update from the Wii Software page on the Shop Channel."

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  1. Re:Why isnt it (F)ree as in FREEDOM by CogDissident · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um, because they don't want people being able to hack the virtual console, and possibly hack into other people's Wiis and steal their points, or some such?

    And by saying you only use Open Source software, that means you don't use any consoles, because none of them are open source. Or use blue ray disks, or HD disks, or office products, or most websites...

    Open source zealots really need to be better informed before they go off on these rants, makes the rest of you intelligent OSS people look bad.

  2. Free until June - unless you can't get a Wii. by Guspaz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The free-until-June deal originally seemed awesome. Until I realized that every store around here still sells out the Wii instantly the moment they have any in stock.

    There's a good chance that by the time the deal expires in June, it will still be almost impossible to find a Wii, and those of us that have been TRYING to buy one since launch day will have been screwed by Opera for not adjusting their deal to account for this problem.