September 17, 200620 yr I often use to upgrade opera browser. I recently installed 9.1. What about you?
September 17, 200620 yr Yes, same here. It comes with Widgets, so you can add things like weather reports, Games etc whilst surfing! - how cool! It also comes bundled with it's own Torrent download software, so you can download files that way also, all under 1 managable browser! Fabulous! Another reason to love Opera! - Be nice if it had Web Developer tools like firefox does though...
October 24, 200619 yr For some reason, I had trouble getting used to 8 so I stayed with 7 until it became obvious some things just weren't going to work. At that point, 9 was out so I upgraded to that. I've always loved Opera and it was even better with the new features. But it ran incredibly slow on my system. Now I use Flock most of the time, for the speed, and Opera ever now and then, for functions.
June 14, 200719 yr For some reason, I had trouble getting used to 8 so I stayed with 7 until it became obvious some things just weren't going to work. At that point, 9 was out so I upgraded to that. I've always loved Opera and it was even better with the new features. But it ran incredibly slow on my system. Now I use Flock most of the time, for the speed, and Opera ever now and then, for functions. I'm currently using 9.2 with certain add-ons and mods.
June 14, 200719 yr I used opera at school but that was only because it bypassed the school proxy. and it let you access the internet when ever i wanted.
August 17, 200719 yr Just as an aside, Opera now has a Developer Console. It's not quite firebug, but it is still fairly good. (if you have Opera 9.23 you can find it under tools>advanced>Developer tools) Also the new build Opera (code name Kestrel) will according the the dev blog over at Opera, be lightening fast, with a completely new javascript rendering engine. Speed was one of the main things they were looking to improve with this new build (9.5). It's not out yet, but should be coming very soon. It will also improve the CSS3 coverage, inculding nth-child etc. No news as yet if it will support border-radius, which in my opinion is an absolute priority!.
September 13, 200818 yr I alawys indulge myself with the latest version. Here is my about page: Version 9.52 Build 2091 Platform Linux System i686, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 Qt library 3.3.8 Java Java Runtime Environment installed I recently test chrome from google. It is fast but the download function is horrible. it crashes a couple of times. Actually there is a quick way to crash it: just type :% in the address bar and press "Enter" :-) Just as an aside, Opera now has a Developer Console. It's not quite firebug, but it is still fairly good. (if you have Opera 9.23 you can find it under tools>advanced>Developer tools) Also the new build Opera (code name Kestrel) will according the the dev blog over at Opera, be lightening fast, with a completely new javascript rendering engine. Speed was one of the main things they were looking to improve with this new build (9.5). It's not out yet, but should be coming very soon. It will also improve the CSS3 coverage, inculding nth-child etc. No news as yet if it will support border-radius, which in my opinion is an absolute priority!.
September 11, 200917 yr Hi! I occasionally use Opera on low-end machines as it performs quite well. Apart from the integrated torrent client, IRC client, email client, feed reader, and the fun fish aquarium widget, the only thing they haven't got within the browser is IM capabilities... perhaps they can use the Pidgin library for it. I primarily use Firefox as my default browser on Linux, Windows Vista and Windows XP. However, with the optimizations made in Windows 7 for Internet Explorer, it's really quick compared to Internet Explorer running on previous versions of Windows or even other browsers running on Windows 7. It definitely is part of a strategy by Microsoft to promote Internet Explorer usage while selling another Windows release and they have it working on me. -Nitin
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