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20 September 2005 at 08:02 PM.

Serious category.

Going to the Opera is now completely free so why haven’t you been yet?

People have left 14 comments for "Go to the Opera, Free!"

webjones

22 September 2005 at 12:42 AM

Even Tyger Tyger will sing for that.

Stuart

22 September 2005 at 10:24 AM

Ha ha, excellent photo. Did you take the name from the poem?

webjones

22 September 2005 at 11:42 PM

Yes. My daughter named him when we first got him (she was 6 or 7). But I thought “tiger” too pedestrian.

Jess

24 September 2005 at 03:43 PM

Currently surfing with it. Thanks! It’s got some weirdness – I don’t know if I’ll use it instead of Firefox.

Stuart

24 September 2005 at 04:38 PM

Well at least you have options now. :)

Sahara

25 September 2005 at 03:36 PM

Wow – I can’t believe how much faster than Firefox it is. Easier to use, too.

I am supposed to do another security update with Firefox at the moment, but I can’t be bothered – sticking with Opera now I’ve tried it.

Myisha

26 September 2005 at 06:24 AM

I’m using it right now. Your site looks alot different in Opera.The textarea is alot bigger and the quicktags repeats itself. I don’t know if I would you this as my primary browser,but I know it will take some time to get use too it.

Stuart

26 September 2005 at 11:36 AM

Well spotted Myisha. I’ve removed the buttons. I’m not sure if people use them anyway and it’s one less plug-in. I don’t know that the textarea is any bigger. It might just be the scrollbar that it puts in. IE6 does that as well. There is now a new Opera 8.50.

Stuart

26 September 2005 at 11:41 AM

Thanks for visiting Sahara and welcome to thebombsite.com. It does seem a little faster than FF doesn’t it but I still find it a little jerky when scrolling. They seem to have smoothed it out better with FF though I am now using the 1.5 Beta version.

webjones

26 September 2005 at 11:58 PM

Perhaps I’m getting old and set in my ways, but I don’t care for Opera that much. I’m sticking with Firefox.

Stuart

27 September 2005 at 01:00 AM

So am I for regular use but it’s handy for layout checking along with IE just to make sure I’m covering as many bases as possible. I must say I do like the skinning though. Aren’t you watching the match?

Lily

13 October 2005 at 05:39 AM

tooo many browsers for me!

Vexeffexx

14 October 2005 at 09:09 PM

If Opera had extensions, I’d use it in a second. Firefox has my beloved web developer toolbar, though.

Stuart

14 October 2005 at 09:15 PM

For much the same reason I stick with FF too but it’s handy to have Opera around to check out layouts.

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