From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 18 3:31:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E6C37B406 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 03:31:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 03:31:23 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 03:31:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Opera (was: Linux emulation problem) Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Message-ID: <3B2D760A.28347.27D47AB@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:02:12 -0700 > From: Kelsey Cummings > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 10:37:17PM -0000, dev-null@no-id.com > wrote: > > Ok, this isn't a question per se. I did as the two kind > > replies suggested and installed the linux libs from ports. Now > > opera is working. But it's not just working. It's working GREAT! ;-) > > Unlike that memory scrooge bug farm Nutscrape, Opera isn't > > crashing/freezing itself, nor is it bringing X down. I'm so > > impressed with it that I thought it was my responsibility to > > lighten the path for other readers of this list who may be > > experiencing Netscape troubles of their own.... > I love it too, but opera does have some quirks that I hven't figured out > yet. It doesn't work right with some web apps that we use internally > that have always worked with NS and IE. Of course, it *IS* adware until > registered. It's a lot better than it used to be. I use it as my main browser now. It is my unscientific opinion that the vast majority of pages or apps that won't work with Opera nowadays are ones which pander to generally non-standard idiosyncracies of IE and Netscape, rather than flaws with Opera. Well worth the $39, they deserve support for giving us a nice alternative. (At least they are out front with their revenue source. I don't consider IE or NS free, you are just paying for them by legitimizing other aspects of TimeWarner/AOL or Microsoft's efforts at dominating the net) My least favorite aspect at the moment is the bookmark feature, so for now I use Netscape for bookmarks and open the Netscape html bookmark file in Opera when I want to access it. (Bless Netscape for at least making that an html file) Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message