Opera Is Now Free
15 February 2006I don’t want to enter in the browser war, but I noticed that Opera is now free and, as such, can be a viable contender for an every day browser. You can find out all about Opera and download it here - http://www.opera.com/
I’ve been using Firefox for about a year and really like, but lately it has started to “run away” with my processor. Randomly for no apparent reason, Firefox starts consuming upwards of 25% of my processor cycles. This is way too much, especially since I have a 3 GHz processor. So, I’m switching to Opera. As I go through the process, I’m going to catalog what I like and don’t like about Opera in comparison to Firefox.
- Tabs in Opera
Ever since I started using Firefox I’d been used to having a new tab/page open whenever I left-clicked on a link. I liked that for searches and for viewing news. Just select several pages that looked interesting from the main page, click on them and then browse through them with tabs. But Opera doesn’t have the left click option. But there are a couple of work arounds/options. First, the middle button can be set to open a new page/tab when clicked. I hadn’t really used the middle button much before other than to scroll, but I find this easy. Another option in Opera is mouse gestures. A quick down up motion while holding the right mouse button will open a link in a new page/tab. I haven’t found this as useful, but it is an option.
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