Opera's 10th birthday - giving away ad-free Browser version

[Paul]

As some members may know, I usually use a different browser rather than Internet Explorer, and prefer Opera or Mozilla Firefox. The only minor thing is that usually the Opera browser comes with a tiny amount of advertising at the top of the browser itself - nothing too obtrusive but it just eats up a bit of screen space. But...I've just found out that to celebrate Opera's 10th birthday Opera are giving away registration codes for the totally ad-free version from 12.00 AM today (30 August 2005) to 12.00 AM tomorrow (31 August 2005). I've just got mine and yay, the ads at the top have gone.

If you've never tried Opera, I'd very much reccomend it, and especially now that you can get an ad-free version. You can get a free registration code from http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml (they ask for an email address so it may be worthwhile using a secondary email address rather than your main one, just in case they share the address with other organisations...can never be too careful when it comes to avoiding spam).

They've got some competitions too that you can enter...details on the link at http://my.opera.com/community/party/

Happy birthday to Opera!

[Gwared]

I'm quite happy with FireFox but I've "never looked a gift horse in the mouth" So I'll try it and see.

Thanks for the link

[Nightcrawler]

I've always been using Internet Explorer. Is there any reason in particular you'd recomend against it? My mum uses Mozilla, so if that's better/safer, perhaps I may switch.

[Gwared]

I've always been using Internet Explorer. Is there any reason in particular you'd recomend against it? My mum uses Mozilla, so if that's better/safer, perhaps I may switch.

I always used to use IE, but because everyone does it's the one that has all the exploits for viruses, worms and other nasty things. The reason being as it's the most popular, of you want to cause the most pain, exploit that one.

I eventually got sick of IE letting nasty things onto my computer and tried Mozilla and Firefox...I preferred Firefox and love some of the things it has that IE doesn't (didn't?) like tabs. Plus Firefox has an in-built pop-up stopper and doesn't let nearly as much rubbish onto my computer.

Opera is different again, and has some great features (like saving the open pages when you close it), the top 10 and the wand - I've only been using it a while and I like some of it, I just wish the tabs system worked like Firefox's.

Personally I'd get rid of IE as soon as you can.

[Phinea Rogue]

I'm actually using Opera and I suppose that this is an ad-free version I use now (though I don't know much about it, it's my Dad's employee Kalmi who takes care of the computer). Very good. I was previously used to use IE, but then Kalmi brought Opera and I'm satisfied with it.

[Paul]

Not sure if this is what you mean Gwared, but I've just found that pressing Ctrl and the tab button at the same time will toggle you through the tabs in a particular Opera window. I usually use the mouse for my tabbing so never realised this before.

With Firefox, there are some nice tab extensions. I've got the Tabbrowser preferences, Tab clicking options, Last Tab and FLST (focus last selected tab) extensions which enable me to use the firefox tabs exactly the way I use them in Opera.

There's also a Firefox extension called SessionSaver .2 which saves the addresses of the entire set of pages you're viewing in the same way as Opera does, so that when you reopen Firefox, it'll reopen all the tabs at where you were immediately before you last closed the browser.

One other nice thing about these browsers is that you can quickly recover from accidentally closing tabs. In Opera if you close a tab by mistake, you can just go to Edit ---> Undo and the page will be reopened. Firefox has the same thing (using one of the extensions will give you a Tools ---> Snapback Tab option which has the same effect as the Edit ---> Undo in Opera).

[Cougie]

I've just started using Opera 8.5. But I would like the address bar to be above the tab buttons. Can it be done?