Opera 7.0 b2

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-01-21 06:46am

I just got this. Looks good so far, except...that window asking how you want to start up (no pages, home page, last page viewed) pops up every time you start the program. When you click "don't show this again," it tells you that you must buy Opera in order to not have this pop up.

That's total bullshit. They deliberately inconvenience me in order to get my money? To paraphrase Darth Wong, they can suck my cock, because that's as close as they'll get to my wallet.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-01-21 06:57am

They give you free software and you complain?

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-01-21 06:57am

Fuck opera!

Get Mozilla

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-21 08:31am

I'm a zombie who uses IE. Who gives a frick really, what possible difference does it make?

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-01-21 11:21am

Vympel wrote:I'm a zombie who uses IE. Who gives a frick really, what possible difference does it make?

When you get one of those sites that starts popping up endless numbers of windows after you close the previous window, and when you close those, more pop up, you will appreciate the differences between IE and Opera.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-01-21 11:24am

When you get one of those sites that starts popping up endless numbers of windows after you close the previous window, and when you close those, more pop up, you will appreciate the differences between IE and Opera.

A simple program fixs that, so its not built in... Eh, MS will get on the anit-pop up band-wagon sooner or later(Remeber their great talent is taking other people's ideas coping them and then improving on them)

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-01-21 01:37pm

Mr Bean wrote:They give you free software and you complain?

I complain about crappy free software, yeah. But it's not too big a deal; this is still a beta version, and I can still use 6.05.
And no, I will not "fuck Opera," thank you very much. Opera kicks ass. Runs much faster than IE, and it doesn't give me any of IE's stupid errors. Some people complain that it doesn't load some windows-only pages properly, but for me, if somebody doesn't want me looking at their shitty page, that's their problem and not mine.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-01-21 01:41pm

Robert Treder wrote: Some people complain that it doesn't load some windows-only pages properly, but for me, if somebody doesn't want me looking at their shitty page, that's their problem and not mine.

Uhm, my Sourcebook pages are IE only, I think. Opera always has
problems with the code....but I can't be arsed to type in 
after each line in my sourcebooks....screw that, a simple at
the end of each paragraph is good enough...

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-01-21 01:51pm

MKSheppard wrote: Uhm, my Sourcebook pages are IE only, I think. Opera always has
problems with the code....but I can't be arsed to type in 
after each line in my sourcebooks....screw that, a simple at
the end of each paragraph is good enough...

Nope good old Moz handles them just fine

Get Mozilla now!

http://w1.874.telia.com/~u87422034/screen.jpg

*rubs temples*.... ~Dalton

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-01-21 03:11pm

Opera runs your pages just fine, Shep. Of course, I already have a lot of those books, but it's good to have them on the net, too.

unigolyn · Post by **unigolyn** » 2003-01-22 07:20am

Opera is ten times more feature-packed than mozilla, and they're useful features to boot. As to the startup crap...

*coughkeygencough*

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-01-22 07:26am

No need to cough with me, my Baltic friend. I'm an unabashed software ninja (because pirates are evil). I'll look into that.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-01-22 07:33am

unigolyn wrote:Opera is ten times more feature-packed than mozilla, and they're useful features to boot. As to the startup crap...

*coughkeygencough*

Last I looked Mozilla had far, far better standards support and that is what counts in a web browser as far as I'm concerned.

unigolyn · Post by **unigolyn** » 2003-01-22 08:09am

No, it's not that, I just had this weird lump in my throat...

Simplest way is to head to www.cracks.st (popup blocker on).

unigolyn · Post by **unigolyn** » 2003-01-22 08:14am

Crazy_Vasey wrote:Last I looked Mozilla had far, far better standards support and that is what counts in a web browser as far as I'm concerned.

I don't know, the standards support has improved a lot since opera 6, and when it comes to pure speed of browsing, Opera is completely unbeatable. Back/forward is pretty much instantaneous.

Bottom line being, the standards support is more than good enough for all my browsing needs, and the speed, features, incredibly good UI, and non-memory hog nature of Opera make it my browser of choice.