Opera 6b1 released

[Thomas Dowling]

For browser fans--

Opera released the first beta of its new release today.  6.0b1 is
available for Windows only so far; their other platforms are only now
stabilizing on 5.x.  Biggest new features are Unicode support and your
choice of multiple-document or single-document interfaces.  Also a menu
option to disable pop-up windows!

Biggest PITA (aside from little new support for CSS or HTML, though that
was already pretty good) is that it's a free upgrade for people who bought
5.x, but not for people who originally bought earlier releases.  So even
the beta is adware-or-pay if you bought 4.0 and then upgraded to 5.0.

See <http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/20011113.html> for details.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu