Opera scraps browser ads

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050920/wr_nm/opera_dc

Yay!

This is a bit typical. First, they give out free licenses due to their 10-year anniversary. Then, a couple of weeks later, they make the whole thing free.

Something tells me that they had planned this all along, and that they were giving out free licenses just to gather names and data.

I'm trying the new version of Opera right now. So far, it appears to be faster and less resource heavy than Firefox (??! !) and also supports Tabbed browsing.

I remember briefly tring out Opera back in 1998, (Back when it would fit on a 1.4MB Floppy) and I thought that it had some pretty interesting features then, but the GUI was absolutely HORRIBLE!. I also used the Mac Version briefly back in 2k1-2k2, and It had improved greatly, though it still had issues when it came to displaying certain pages. --I think the current version is vastly superior to previous versions, but I'll have to use it a bit more

Im using the new version of opera. Just moved from Firefox 1.6. I think that opera loads web pages you have already visted faster than Firefox and IE6 or though this probably does not matter if you are on broadband.
There just two features in opera that I wish firefox would steal. The fact that you can click on tabs and drag them into a new order. I don't seem to be able to do that on firefox. And another feature that I like is Operas Sessions where you can save where you are and come back to the same place later on when you want to.