[ILUG] Opera

[Mark Page]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Niall O Broin wrote:

I downloaded the latest Opera and great - except they now want $39 for it.

The previous version I had was free but crashed all the time. The latest
is 4.0b2 and gives you 30 days free evaluation. Whilst this version is far
superior and preferable to Netscape or Mozilla is it worth $39?

> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:03:06AM +0000, Wesley Darlington wrote:
> 
> > I have a beta of opera for linux running atm - it's a beautiful browser
> > to look at and use, but it crashes more often than it should and leaks
> > memory. 
> 
> Is that 4.0b1 or is there a later one ? I'd be embarassed to release that as
> beta code. I have some pages where it doesn't render an image (renders other
> similar images on the same page happily) and others where it displays all
> the icons double sized.
> 
> > I'm sure if a final version of opera ever 
> > comes out for linux, I'll be ditching netscape for good...
> 
> For what value of final ? AFAIR Opera has always claimed to be the most W3C
> standards compliant browser, although AFAIK Explorer 5 now has that title. 
> 
> While we're on browsers, has anyone had a look at Konqueror in KDE2 yet ?
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> Regards,
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> Niall
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