Review: Opera 4.0 (beta)

By SKillBot March 29, 2000 2:58 AM

(ZD) Opera, the coolest lightweight browser ever, has its new beta out.?If you've never used it before, you should give it a try.?They've added a simple email client (egads! the whole thing won't fit on a floppy any more), and support for 128 bit ssl.?It also allows you to accept, block, or disable cookies for individual sites (like lynx has been doing for a long time now).?The new version also has excellent HTML,XML,javascript, and css support.?The only catch is its $35 price tag.?You can read the review here.

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Posted by Acheron (denny@dtheatre.com) on March 29, 2000 8:35 AM

as good as it may be, why should I pay for a browser when there are so many out there, and pages are made for IE and Netscape/using their page builders?

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Posted by sKillBot (travis@pulley.org) on March 29, 2000 6:03 PM

It has several features that neither netscape nor IE has. It's _really_ fast. It's extremely efficient, which makes it great for less powerful computers. It also lets you view pages at various zoom levels, which is way cool. I think it's more stable than the other two (definately moreso than netscape), but I haven't tried the latest version yet. Personally, I use all three browsers for testing, but IE mostly for general use, since I look at a lot of flash stuff.

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Posted by sKillBot (travis@pulley.org) on March 29, 2000 6:05 PM

I have it on my laptop that has 8 megs of ram, and it's really not bad. I couldn't imagine using another browser on it.

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Posted by Demona (frogfarm@hempseed.com) on March 29, 2000 11:25 PM

NOOOOOOO! Oh well, Opera was fun while they remained true to
the vision but with the addition of an email client and the
consequent bloat to the point where it won't fit on a floppy
anymore, I must pin my hopes on Mozilla; when complete, we should
be able to compile custom versions of as pure and simple a
Gecko-based browser as we want. In the meantime I use Lynx for 99%
of my daily browsing, and if a website won't work with it I won't
shop there. Once I got SSL compiled in for secure transactions, I
haven't had too many problems :)

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 30, 2000 7:56 AM

yeah, but Lynx sucks. The web is supposed to be a visual experience. All text sucks(though fast, it may be)

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 1, 2000 1:12 PM

Geeesh, I guess that X Server thing on Linux completely escaped you didnt it?