Free Opera Browser
One interesting news that caught my attention today was that Opera browser turned free. I have been wanting to use Opera for some time. Only things that stop me are the flashy advertisements that it shows on the right side of window. I take it as a major distraction and a very primitive way to earn money for a browser.
I think Firefox has turned old (I dont consider IE to be anything). Firefox seems to slog in its own weight and is not any more innovative lately. My biggest gripe with Firefox is its memory issues. The thing sucks memory even when lying idle. I have complained about memory leaks to the Mozilla forum but so far no version has handled it. I have even tried the current beta version of Firefox which is even more buggy.
I was initially suspicious after reading about free Opera browser. I thought it was a marketing plot, those one-time special offers kind, and that after some time, the advertisements will start again. It is absolutely useless to switch to a browser for some time when you have to stop using it after few months. A browser stores a lot of things - bookmarks, history, cache, and passwords. And you do not want to import-export these things from one browser to other all the time.
However, as it seems, Opera has signed a deal with Google where every sponsored link clicked in Google search page through Opera browser will give a cut to the Opera-dot-com. This could mean a lot for Opera if many people starts using Opera browser, especially when the premise that those users use Google could be assumed to be invariably true. Google has earned millions with these sponsored links, and it is amusing to see that Google is ready to share the profits with Opera. At the moment, Google does not need to promote its search engine through any browser. The fact that Google is still doing it shows that it is careful about not losing its market share. I still feel, though, that Google could pull the plug at this deal in the near future. Google is said to be working on its own browser. If that is true, Google will not support a competitive browser and be a source of its sales.
Now about Opera, the browser. I downloaded and installed the browser. My first impression. It installed fast. It opened fast. It browsed fast. It closed fast. Yes, the browser is fast and is faster than anything I have seen before - Firefox, IE, and Netscape(@$#$). Its UI is more slick than the Firefox. It has interesting features too like trash can (opens a deleted window), sessions storing (similar to bookmarks with slight difference), and RSS feed support (very interesting - RSS feeds from websites like news.google.com can be read as mails in Outlook like interface). I have not looked at yet whether it suffers from memory leaks but the way it opens and closes does not suggest any large memory footprint.
I think I will keep this browser for some time.
I think Firefox has turned old (I dont consider IE to be anything). Firefox seems to slog in its own weight and is not any more innovative lately. My biggest gripe with Firefox is its memory issues. The thing sucks memory even when lying idle. I have complained about memory leaks to the Mozilla forum but so far no version has handled it. I have even tried the current beta version of Firefox which is even more buggy.
I was initially suspicious after reading about free Opera browser. I thought it was a marketing plot, those one-time special offers kind, and that after some time, the advertisements will start again. It is absolutely useless to switch to a browser for some time when you have to stop using it after few months. A browser stores a lot of things - bookmarks, history, cache, and passwords. And you do not want to import-export these things from one browser to other all the time.
However, as it seems, Opera has signed a deal with Google where every sponsored link clicked in Google search page through Opera browser will give a cut to the Opera-dot-com. This could mean a lot for Opera if many people starts using Opera browser, especially when the premise that those users use Google could be assumed to be invariably true. Google has earned millions with these sponsored links, and it is amusing to see that Google is ready to share the profits with Opera. At the moment, Google does not need to promote its search engine through any browser. The fact that Google is still doing it shows that it is careful about not losing its market share. I still feel, though, that Google could pull the plug at this deal in the near future. Google is said to be working on its own browser. If that is true, Google will not support a competitive browser and be a source of its sales.
Now about Opera, the browser. I downloaded and installed the browser. My first impression. It installed fast. It opened fast. It browsed fast. It closed fast. Yes, the browser is fast and is faster than anything I have seen before - Firefox, IE, and Netscape(@$#$). Its UI is more slick than the Firefox. It has interesting features too like trash can (opens a deleted window), sessions storing (similar to bookmarks with slight difference), and RSS feed support (very interesting - RSS feeds from websites like news.google.com can be read as mails in Outlook like interface). I have not looked at yet whether it suffers from memory leaks but the way it opens and closes does not suggest any large memory footprint.
I think I will keep this browser for some time.
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