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p3
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 Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:19 pm Post subject: Opera is Now Free |
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I saw this on the PHPBB forum a little while ago, and thought you guys might be interested.
Opera is now free. They're removed the ads, and you can get it COMPLETLY free now. No ads or anything. |
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cmxflash
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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I read it about 2 weeks ago on IRC. You're so slow.
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olly86
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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Nope, Opera announced today that the Desktop version of their browser will be free, and without the ad banner forever, you are just required to pay for priority support.
They are still charging for their mobile browsers. This move will really put FireFox to the test, it's just cumbersome rubbish (FireFox that is :D).
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Yami King
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Aaah, nice but I didn't really mind the banners, some were pretty useful (U know the ones like: Get a date, and that kinda stuff :P). But better no ads for free than paid... |
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TRUSTAbyss
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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Why didn't they just make it free when they celebrated their Anniversary ? This
all seems a bit weird to me. I think Opera is after Firefox and IE browsers lol... |
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Yami King
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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They gave away keys to unlock Opera, that was all, why they didn't made it free then is a mystery for me too...
But keys were almost enough to show people that Opera is free.. |
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olly86
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Yami King wrote: | | They gave away keys to unlock Opera, that was all, why they didn't made it free then is a mystery for me too... |
It also allowed Opera to get into the headlines of computer news sites twice, therefore increasing the programs exposure, to being free. Crafty or what?
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jibbajabba
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p3
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:31 am Post subject: |
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| jibbajabba wrote: | | i don't like opera or firefox too slow for me.. only other browser i liked appart from I.E is netscape. |
You know that Firefox is based of Netscape, right? |
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Anonymoose
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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It's actually based off Mozilla, which was a considerable improvement over the original Netscape version released as open source.
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Yami King
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| jibbajabba wrote: | | i don't like opera or firefox too slow for me.. only other browser i liked appart from I.E is netscape. |
How can you say this while these two browsers are the quickest around... |
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p3
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| Yami King wrote: | | jibbajabba wrote: | | i don't like opera or firefox too slow for me.. only other browser i liked appart from I.E is netscape. |
How can you say this while these two browsers are the quickest around... |
I think he means the slowest starting up. If he does, then I certainly agree... if now, well... |
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