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Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee. Opera’s growth, due to tremendous worldwide customer support, has made today’s milestone an achievable goal. Premium support is available.

This might mean a major growth of my favorite browser's user base. So far you either had to pay for it, crack it or put up with an ad banner in the top bar. In any case, if you've been thinking about giving Opera a try and haven't gotten around to it yet, now is the time!

Also, they have introduced a new feature they call Browser JavaScript. Supposedly it's some kind of a bugfix database for popular websites and JavaScript libraries that contain known bugs or cause problems with Opera for other reasons (e.g. browser lockout). While I usually don't condone a single company changing a piece of information I want to see without asking me first, I think this has the potential to be a wonderful feature. At the very least it'll do away with some annoyances caused by stupid web 'developers' too ignorant to bother testing their sites with a browser other than IE.

"*sigh* Some men are really hard to manipulate!" - Orchid

This post was edited by null on Sep 20, 2005.

Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee. Opera's growth, due to tremendous worldwide customer support, has made today's milestone an achievable goal. Premium support is available.

*opens a bottle of champagne* Let's party, people! I honestly thought that something like that would have happened, also based on my cousin's feelings as well. Afterall they had just given out free serials for Opera's birthday not very long ago.

I haven't had this browser for a very long time, but I already love it, and I think it is definitely the best substitutive tool in place of the hated Internet Explorer.

Long story short: I think we should all be happy about this, because this means that we will always be able to use a good browser, even without being bugged by the ads.

Un bacio è un'apostrofo rosa scritto tra le parole "ti amo".

After hearing about this, I decided to try it, and found that it was a viable alternative to Firefox. I just wish it was entirely free (you know, as in open source, and stuff).

I should be ashamed of myself.

This post was edited by Aynjell on Sep 22, 2005.

Personally I've never seen why people dont like the ad bar. Ive used opera for the past three years, and everyone harps on about this thing which is maybe one inch high by five or six broad and sits in the top right corner of the screen.

Its easily ignorable, I dont even look at it; but people when you try and get Opera to them say "Oh, its got an ad. Dont like that." and delete it.

The ad removal is pretty much superfluous news to me.

Sir Deimos, Beater of Ass.

To be honest, it bothered me, too. That's why I registered it.
(That, and it's worth the money)

"*sigh* Some men are really hard to manipulate!" - Orchid

The adbar is just annoying, and to power users, it represents wasted resources. To the average user, adware is "not to be trusted". It makes sense, really it does.

Opera is nice, not sure it could be my main browser, mostly because of bugs I've found... like it maxing my CPU when I go to newegg. :\

I should be ashamed of myself.

to power users, it represents wasted resources.

Exactly.

To the average user, adware is "not to be trusted".

Oh, at least they're very honest about what it does and the information it collects (it gives you an options dialog to set your ad 'preferences'). Besides, I've always used the registered version anyways, so no problem.

like it maxing my CPU when I go to newegg

Never noticed that. Are you sure it's Opera and not some plug-in? Can you give an example page?

"*sigh* Some men are really hard to manipulate!" - Orchid

This post was edited by null on Sep 23, 2005.

Go to newegg.com and watch CPU usage climb. THis is on linux, however, as I am no longer a windows user.

I should be ashamed of myself.

No such thing happens here (Opera 8.5 on XP). Must be a Linux-only thing then, or maybe a bug in Opera that has been fixed in the meantime.

"*sigh* Some men are really hard to manipulate!" - Orchid

The only version I've tried is 8.5, so it very well may be an issue isolated to linux. I need to see if it might be flash.

I should be ashamed of myself.

Personally I've never seen why people dont like the ad bar.

If I recall correctly, it bothered me because it was TEN MILES HIGH. Or something.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

From the Opera hopemage:

I find the above interesting for two reasons: One, I know you meant 'homepage', but the idea of Opera having a hopemage is funny. Technically, that would mean a 'hopeful director'? He.

Two, I am pleased to see that even though Opera is something I haven't managed to integrate yet, it is set up to go around the 'workings' of certain--

stupid web 'developers' too ignorant to bother testing their sites with a browser other than IE.

Personally, I dislike the fact that the person here in St. Louis who works on my computer looks down his nose at me for having wanted Firefox as a browser, and didn't want to just set it as a browser default.

I asked him about Firefox and about Opera as browsers in place of IE, and he 'stuck up his nose' and pshawed. Nice to know there is a way to work around such misinformed snobbery, that leaves you with a 'computer setup' that might not normally work with Opera...until hopefully now.

If mountain goats like living at high elevations, why do none live in high rise apartment buildings?

This post was edited by rosyxxx on Sep 24, 2005.