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Safer than Firefox or IE! But how will Opera make $?
Finally a free (as in beer anyway) browser that's *consistently* safer than IE, not just *arguably* safer like the mozilla/gecko-based browsers.

I think the only other safe alternatives are khtml-based browsers like konqueror or safari, and these aren't available on Windows. (Well maybe there's KDE under cygwin or something, but let's get real.)

But how will the company make money? I think eventually they will have to give up on it commercially and open-source it so that volunteers can help maintain it. But will that increase the number of security holes? Not if they keep tight control over what the volunteers check in.

David Rosen
Posted by: dabruro   Posted on: 09/20/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Holy crap...  ju1ce | 09/20/05
yeah, you should get off of firefox, it's a security hazard.  Valis Keogh | 09/20/05
Not really...  ju1ce | 09/20/05
He was joking  Oscar_Goldman | 09/20/05
In other news ...  cygnusx1 | 09/20/05
Opera is pretty good  Real World | 09/20/05
Opera's tab implementation  scp_z | 09/20/05
haen't had the time to  Real World | 09/20/05
Mouse Gesture  joethemacfan | 09/20/05
Wasn't nuts about them in  Real World | 09/20/05
can do that in FF too  Jeff Spicoli | 09/20/05
One thing I think they need...  ju1ce | 09/20/05
Faster than which FF?  msmitchel | 09/21/05
Opera is slow  Tommy Gun | 09/20/05
Riiighhhttt..... (NT)  ju1ce | 09/20/05
Opera and Firefox start from scratch.  scp_z | 09/20/05
Even with that.. Opera loads faster than IE on my computer (NT)  ju1ce | 09/20/05
Not likely  george_ou | 09/20/05
Under a second  Real World | 09/20/05
Disk optimizations, probably (nt)  Anti_Zealot | 09/21/05
Well it does for me.. I'm on a 3500  ju1ce | 09/20/05
What I do find interesting....  ju1ce | 09/20/05
Better turn that computer over to ...  ShadeTree | 09/20/05
And as a "smart" end-user...  ju1ce | 09/20/05
Somethign for everyone who uses more than one browser....  ju1ce | 09/20/05
Here is a guy who took the time to do the tests...  ju1ce | 09/20/05
I see your problem now!  ShadeTree | 09/21/05
Just tried it  Roger Ramjet | 09/21/05
IE checks mail?  Roger Ramjet | 09/21/05
Opera IS slow  Roger Ramjet | 09/21/05
Safer than Firefox or IE! But how will Opera make $?  dabruro | 09/20/05
Uhm...  ju1ce | 09/20/05
Sweet music to my ears  Scrat | 09/21/05
Different Browser, Same Story....  charlesgoff | 09/21/05
But the net effect...  Anti_Zealot | 09/21/05
Good, now I can stop putting other windows overtop  Boot_Agnostic | 09/21/05

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