Opera has just released version 6.02 for Windows, and the final version of Opera 6.0 for Linux while they announced support for Symbian’s new exciting technology concept, “Magpie”, when it becomes available as a commercial solution. In the meantime, Mozilla RC-2 was released a few days back.
Opera Releases New Versions for Windows, Linux
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I tried Opera 6.0 (for Linux) Beta 1 some time ago and while being good it seemed to lack finishing touches. Yesterday I downloaded and tried Beta 2, which was just much better! This is great news, unfortunately one day too late so I’ll have to do the installation thing again 🙂
Definitely the fastest of all the mainstream Linux browsers I’ve tried (Netscape, Mozilla, Galeon).
I’ve been using regularly Opera for Windows since the 5.0 release, combining it with IE. I switched to full Opera browsing from 6.0. Opera has incredible speed and some feature I personally love (SHIFT*CTRL click opens in background, mouse gestures, pop-up blocking, just to name my top-three). Now that I swithed to Linux, I think Opera is simply the best browser for the Penguin. If anyone here hasn’t tried Opera yet, well, I think this release is the right one to give it a try. Another suggestion: Minimalist 2.1 skin: compact and eye-candy. Pity for the banner, maybe it’s a bug that will be fixed in next release 🙂
Minimalist 2.1 skin: compact and eye-candy
That’s a great button set – much much nicer than the defaults. You can grab it here:
http://my.opera.com/customize/skin2.cgi?id=717
Re-post, without the “Yeaw” please. Do you think the other readers will like “page widening”?
I din’t think so either.
Opera now allows users to block content from specific URL’s. No more annoying double-click adds. Yeehaaw.
OK, Opera – now it’s time to work on the Solaris version. It’s been at Opera 5 Beta 1 for some time now.
BeOS is way back in 3.X… um.. well had to get it in, otherwise it wouldn’t be a proper OSNews thread.
I’ve played around a bit with Opera on Solaris and even in its current state (for Solaris that is) it’s a good browser. I expect it to only become better.
Now, if we could get a PPC-native port of it for AmigaOS 4.x (when it comes out)´…
Where do you select the URLs to block? Opera’s preferences sin’t that intuitive.
Minimalist 2.1 skin: compact and eye-candy
That’s a great button set – much much nicer than the defaults. You can grab it here:
http://my.opera.com/customize/skin2.cgi?id=717
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Hell yeah! Thanks. I love it.
You have to use your ini-file editing skills to acomplish any URL filtering.
Check out this site from opera newsgroup regular Martin Schrode; http://www.schrode.net/opera/url_filtering/index.html
Make sure you check his other sites on Opera as well. Very informative! http://www.schrode.net/opera/