p2pnet - rss feed: Opera 9 now online
p2p news / p2pnet: If you’re an Opera fan, today is a happy day because version 9 (with BitTorrent) is now out of beta and available on general release.
Here’s CNET News‘ bare-bones take:
The good: Opera 9 integrates BitTorrent media downloads, offers Widgets for your desktop, and is more secure than Internet Explorer.
The bad: Not all of the new features in Opera 9 will be useful to everyone; the RSS feeds page is clunky at best.
The bottom line: We really like Opera 9, but we like it more as the cool, arty browser that it is and not as our everyday workhorse for the Internet.
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June 20th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Dudes, a browser is/should be just that, a browser. If I need bit-torrent, I’ll use utorrent, If I need widgets, I’ll use Yahoo Widgets, and feeds, well feeds are just way over-rated. When software makers start adding features to their software, it often results in fat and bloated software coming out of the oven. Extensions and Plugins are for extra functionality. Stick to the core, and keep it lean.
The other day I was like, hum! I am going to download the latest Nero and check it out. Before that, I had stopped using Nero back in 5.x days, at the download page I almost freaked out, OMG! A 120MB worth of Nero download, it gave me the chills to think of what installing such a monster would do to the fragil Windows Registry, no thanks, I want to keep boot times under 20 seconds.
June 20th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Using it under Linux is absolutely superb. Many congratulations to the Opera team - fantastic!
June 21st, 2006 at 1:59 am
I’ve been using opera as my “everyday workhorse for the internet” since version 5.0, and only have issues with “designed for IE” sites. But having said that, i’ll wait for the first bugfix before i grab the new version.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:30 am
You fail to see Opera’s greatest strength.
Yes, Opera is a Swiss Army knife of internet and information tools, offering vastly more features in its standard package than Firefox or IE. Yet it still manages to be a smaller package (4.6mb) than either Firefox (4.9mb) or IE (25mb).
It also manages to run faster than the competitors; starting, rendering pages and responding faster than the competitors (at least on Windows). See the proof here: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
Bottom line… if you don’t want to use widgets, bittorent, email, etc in Opera, just don’t. Because it is so fast and the user interface is so customisable, you’ll forget they are there. I’ve updated to Opera 9 and it’s fantastic.
The only criticism I can level at Opera is this: it sometimes incorrectly renders CSS pages that have been hacked to display in IE, but this doesn’t stop me using the page, it’s just less formatted.
June 21st, 2006 at 11:00 am
Exactly what I was about to post. Small exe, super fast and very light.
Very easy to customise as well. I have added a ‘Open with IE’ on my right click in case the sites don’t show but it’s very rare now. I use Opera since version 3 and it happened very much back then.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:43 pm
One criticism of Opera is if you have more than a few tabs open the memory useage soars.