Opera plays a new melody to fire(fox) the market

[Ken]

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:02:01 GMT

Author : Sunil Vyas

The war of the browsers just turned a new page, with Opera Software's newest version turning free and yet less intrusive (ad-free). After its late August tenth anniversary offering of its browser free for 24 hours, the company took a month to make its decision “permanent”. Only this time it decided that along with the browser's license fees would go the rather irritating banner advertisements (that earlier subsidized free versions).

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[Ken]

Opera has officially joined the browser wars.

The ad banner and the slightly commerical aspect was always a sticking point in any argument between various fan boys/girls.

Now that they're completely free, they will be taken seriously.

The GUI still needs improvement (as well as the bookmarking features and formatting), but the new v8.5 looks really nice.

As for me, I'm too attached to my FireFox extensions and too familiar with its settings to switch.

[Ken]

Yeah, the GUI still needs lots of improvement.

You have to press ctrl-shift-n to launch a new tab (as opposed to ctrl-t in FireFox).

It lets you customize some shortcuts, but not that one.

I know graphically it's easy to launch a new tab, but I like to use my keyboard more when it comes to that stuff.

[bmc]

im a big opera fan and even bigger now that it is free to the masses

[method77]

You have to press ctrl-shift-n to launch a new tab (as opposed to ctrl-t in FireFox).

right click and pull the mouse down...

Opera is definately the pioneer in mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts. All that without having to install any plugins.

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I know it's hard to switch but Opera has always been the safest and fastest browser.

[Ken]

right click and pull the mouse down...

Perhaps you missed this in my response?

I know graphically it's easy to launch a new tab, but I like to use my keyboard more when it comes to that stuff.

[Ken]

Opera has always been the safest and fastest browser.

That sounds more like an advertisement.

"Safest browser"? By whose standards? "Fastest"? By whose benchmarks? By my benchmark, IE opened faster than Mozilla and Opera, and we all know I'm not an IE fanboy.

Opera is definately the pioneer in mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts.

Obviously they aren't, or else I wouldn't have to press three keys to launch a tab without the mouse.

Opera has the potential to be so much more, but simple GUI improvements are needed.

[bmc]

Yeah, the GUI still needs lots of improvement.

You have to press ctrl-shift-n to launch a new tab (as opposed to ctrl-t in FireFox).

It lets you customize some shortcuts, but not that one.

I know graphically it's easy to launch a new tab, but I like to use my keyboard more when it comes to that stuff.

um ken, ctrl+n works fine on my end. you dont need the shift. and you can change the shortcut for an new tab. Preferences --> advanced --> shortcuts --> edit under keyboard setup --> dropdown under application

Edited September 22, 2005 by bmc

[method77]

perhaps you are right Ken. I'm really a fanboy but like bmc said, you can customise it