Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jun 2008 11:07 UTC
Linux.com has a review of Opera 9.5, which also includes various benchmarks for Opera, Firefox, Safari, and IE on both Windows and Linux. Linuxcom concludes: "Opera 9.5 is full to the brim with features and improvements and highly customizable. By rolling in apps such as the mail client and IRC chat application, and integrating them into a user's browsing experience, Opera 9.5 is a worthy challenger to Firefox 3. It surely has enough power and features to make it my favorite browser. If only it were free software and open source!"
Permalink for comment 319691
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2007-02-05
Free as in open source.
Considering that Linux.com is a magazine that pushes OSS I completely understand that this is a issue to them. Opera isn't in fact OSS, and to them OSS is preferable where such alternatives exists.
Kinda sad that Opera is closed. It's losing a lot on it. Before it didn't matter much, their rendering-engine was way way better than Firefox, but now Firefox is getting better, but more importantly: WebKit is making inroads. And it is: at least as good as, if not better than Opera's renderingengine on some areas.
Opera even has a lot of typical OSS-traits. Obsessed with standards. (Opera don't support a lot of non-standard HTML, instead they have their browser to fix non-standard sites to become standard on-the-fly.)
They have released some OSS-stuff. (JS-frameworks.)They use a lot of OSS in their browser. (Aspell, OpenSSL, FreeType) And not least: their CTO(Håkon Wium Lie) said in a interview that he'd love to open source opera if they found a viable(economic) way to do it.