Opera 3.0 released

[Shirl Kennedy]

Opera is GOOD.  When we bought my son a new PC (he's in a technology magnet
high school program and browbeat us into a "hot" machine), we gave his old
(and my old) 486DX33 with 8M RAM to my mother.  She can actually browse the
Web satisfactorily using Opera, whereas Netscape and IE 3.0 both crashed
repeatedly, creating frustration and drawing out the learning curve.  The
Opera people claim their browser will run on a 386SX machine with 4M
(although they recommend 8M).  At any rate, if you've got older PCs sitting
around and a need for additional Internet workstations, I would definitely
download the trial version of Opera and see if it works for you.

BTW, I use Opera on my own machine -- 166P with 32M RAM.  When I've got Word
97 and Adobe Photoshop open at the same time (plus an e-mail program) and I
need to quick-check a URL, Opera is much less likely to be "the straw that
breaks the camel's back," crashing Win 95...

Shirl Kennedy (who admits to a preference for IE 4.01 and Outlook Express,
but will give anything that looks interesting a try)



-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thursday, January 08, 1998 5:47 PM
Subject: Opera 3.0 released


>Since I've just been chastised for being a Microsoft shill, let's see if
>this redeems me.  I never saw the announcement here, but within the last
>week or so, Opera Software officially released Opera 3.0 for 32- and 16-bit
>Windows platforms.  It has added support for JavaScript and some Netscape
>plug-ins.  Still no Java, CSS, or Unicode support, but that's supposed to
be
>in the works, along with a full-fledged mail client and DHTML support.
>
>The download has, alas, ballooned in size to over 1.1MB - almost a tenth
the
>size of the last Netscape I downloaded and a twentieth the size of my MSIE
>download ;-)  It remains fast, highly configurable, and easy to use.  It
>isn't free, but if you want to support software from companies that aren't
>out to rule the world, it's US$30 well spent.
>
>http://www.operasoftware.com/ for more information.
>
>Thomas Dowling
>OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu
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