Opera going free!

[jaboua]

I dunno if this has been posted before, if so please delete the post... However, I just read at Osnews that Opera is going free!

Here's a link: http://opera.com/free/

I guess that will give firefox a bit more competition

[techieMoe]

I just read about that. Interesting news indeed.

[valan]

Opera is not free, it's no-charge

[jaboua]

Opera is not free, it's no-charge

I meant "free as in beer"

[techieMoe]

The thing that will probably keep me using Firefox (aside from the OSS thing) is that I have some very handy extensions that I'm used to in Firefox. I haven't yet discovered an equivalent for them in Opera:

AdBlock
NoScript

[jaboua]

Never herd of noscript... Does it stop javascript or something like that?

[techieMoe]

Never herd of noscript... Does it stop javascript or something like that?

NoScript

Yes. It stops all scripts from running unless you specifically allow them. The thing that makes this neat (and different from simply saying "disable Javascript" in your Firefox options) is that you can enable/disable on the fly, and only disable/enable the scripts you want, rather than blanket allowing or disallowing all scripts. You can set certain sites as trusted and they'll always be allowed to run scripts (I do that for my bank website and these forums).

[Chris H]

Like those of us involved in web site design need another browser becoming popular

Coding for FF and IE I can cope with but Opera introduces yet more idiosyncracies into the equation.

Plus it makes your palms hairy. A bloke in a pub told me.

[gorgeous lucky luke]

Chris H wrote

Like those of us involved in web site design need another browser becoming popular

If you want a real noobs twopence worth, I doudt if he has that much to worry about. I use firefox in Xp as well as Fedora. I got Opra for Xp about a month ago, (there birthday party). Yes it is much more flashy than firefox, but at the end of the day, I find firefox is much more practical.

Yes some people will use it, but they will almost certainly be the type of people that would use anything, Surfsidekick for example.

[a thing]

Like those of us involved in web site design need another browser becoming popular

Coding for FF and IE I can cope with but Opera introduces yet more idiosyncracies into the equation.

Plus it makes your palms hairy. A bloke in a pub told me.

Make sure it validates in the W3C's online validator and Tidy. Then you can just blame the browser for not being standards complient and get on with your life.