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Opera Browser becomes free (insta-Review here!)

Posted On: Tue, 20/09/2005 - 17:33 by Alex

If you're looking for something to while away your time until Q1 2006, Opera, a serious alternative to both Firefox and IE Explorer has become free!

Quick review - I'm loving the mouse gestures. The look also seems - fresher, amongst other things, there are pretty animations for things like clicking checkboxes and selecting radio buttons, the default interface clears up more screen space for browsing, and the rendering is fast fast fast. (It's faster than both Firefox and IE on my system.) There have also been no rendering issues with almost all of the sites I tried.

There are also small usability improvements. The "open all tabs" button is near the top of bookmarks, the browser always remembers the last pages you were on, and the autofill wizard is friendlier.

All in all, it's worth checking out. We love opera on symbian too - but that's not becoming free. It is, however, one of the best - and we hope it stays that way. (Netfront is also a serious contender.)

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