Comments on: Opera goes free without ads

By: rotren

rotren — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:44:55 +0000

Opera is very good, and it’s about time they “went free”. It renders web pages really good nowadays (I remember version 4 and 5…) The caching behaviour is annoying though until you get used to it.

By: AutisticCuckoo

AutisticCuckoo — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:04:49 +0000

They are going to have to give me a significant reason before I’ll stop using Mozilla as my main browser.

I used to think the same way, too. Then I switched from Windows XP to Linux and Mozilla rendered fonts like cr*p. Opera, OTOH, rendered them beautifully.

That was my significant reason. I switched to Opera, gave it a fair chance, and was hooked. Haven’t looked back since. Now that it’s ad free it’s even better, but honestly, the tiny text ads didn’t bother me.

You need 20-30 extensions to make Firefox do what Opera does out of the box. The only Mozilla thing I miss is the DOM Inspector, but I have a ‘View in FF’ button in my Opera that will open the page in Firefox, and then i just hit Ctrl+Shift+I to get the DOM Inspector. Easy. :)

By: sadisynn

sadisynn — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:51:26 +0000

I’ll say it again, as I have in the past… Opera works on Windows 95 where the others don’t. I also got it for Mac OS9, and IBM OS/2. And I’ve made use of the ads in the past. Off hand, I’d say the reason for going free is due to the phenomenal success of millions of satisfied paying customers. I was about to fork over money when this free thing hit my email. Still a good idea to donate, they’re the greatest! Read the CERT bulletins, Opera has the least bugs, period.

By: chris ward

chris ward — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:14:35 +0000

sorry, i meant it’s because of the browsers, that new innovations are happening on the web, hence web 2.0

By: chris ward

chris ward — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:12:29 +0000

such a move is good for developers in the long term.

more innovation in the market breeds innovation, and so we avoid another period of stagnation.

it’s because of feeds,AJAX with standards support in browsers that things are moving forward today!

and from the quick glance so far, opera seems to have more features than the fox!

really loving these mouse gestures (right click and drag) :)

By: A Guy

A Guy — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:58:26 +0000

Opera was the only browser that I was actually prepared to pay for because it had so many essential features. I wouldn’t have paid a dime for Fire Fox because it simply couldn’t do everything that Opera can and has done for years.

And before anyone tells me that Fire Fox has hundreds of plug-ins available that replicate everything that’s built into Opera, I say who wants to spend hours hunting for and downloading all those plug-ins just to get the same functionality that Opera provides out of the box? Not me!

And wasn’t there a major fiasco a while back when a new version of Fire Fox came out and all of a sudden all the plug-ins stopped working?

By: jpatterson

jpatterson — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:16:15 +0000

i agree charmedlover. Price doesn’t define how good a programme is.

By: charmedlover

charmedlover — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:12:38 +0000

Who cares if FF has always been free? It really doesn’t matter. M$ has always been there (well in the computer realm) but they’re dying now! :D

By: jpatterson

jpatterson — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:02:09 +0000

Just because it hasn’t always been free doesn’t automatically make it worse than those that were. Maybe they just suddenly decided ‘Wow! Free is cool nowadays – lets do that!’ – I doubt it but you never know!

By: |Dexter|

|Dexter| — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:53:15 +0000

Firefox was always free and adfree!