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- Price: Free $39.00 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: August 05, 2004
- Total Downloads: 7,879,467
- Downloads last week: 12,203
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2807 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
The premise of Opera has always been the same: Develop the fastest, smallest, and most full-featured browser available. Opera maintains the tradition with its latest version. Offering unprecedented speed and low memory usage, Opera is still embarrassing the big browsers by loading most Web pages in a fraction of the time they use.
In addition to fine-tuning speed and performance, the browser includes support for bidirectional languages such as Arabic and Hebrew, a slide-show feature for Web-based photos, and an option that allows users of the free, ad-sponsored version to receive either text-based ads served by Google or generic graphical ads. Other features sweeten the deal, such as spatial navigation, a built-in e-mail client with spam parameters, and IRC chat support. As always, Opera continues to offer good-quality encryption and other security measures.
Although Opera's default interface wastes space with redundant tools that visually overpower the browser window, it is wholly customizable. Skins let you change the browser's look to suit your preferences. Anyone looking at alternate browsers should check out Opera, the leader of the pack.
Publisher's description
From Opera Software :Opera is an Internet browser with a pop-up blocker, multiple-windows navigation, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, e-mail client with Spam filter, and integrated search all for user security and speed. The cross-platform browser includes a multitude of other functions such as integrated built-in e-mail client, IRC-compatible chat, support for RSS newsfeeds, password manager, one-click customization and privacy protection settings.
Mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts allow for accelerated Web navigation while the Fast Forward and Rewind buttons ease browsing. Users are able to run multiple windows as well as personalize the user interface with one-click skins. The browser also contains special elements for users with disabilities, drag-and-drop support, a notes function, user profiles, and a host of other features.
Opera supports the latest in security and provides password and cookie managers.
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User reviews of Opera 7.54
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 2807 votes
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2 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 7.54
Pros: Takes up less resources than Mozilla
Downloads websites fast
More features then both IE and Mozilla
Cons: It's got a lot of advertising
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 7.54
Pros: A highly featureful browser. Rather this than IE. And it works on a tonne of operating systems without sacrificing functionality. IE on Mac comes to mind here... Being that it generally sucks more on Mac.
Hello dave.
Cons: no extensions, doesn't matter.
if you want to insert 'Lorem Ipsum..' into a textbox at the click of mouse, then get firefox.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 7.54
Pros: Opera is really beautiful(it's for me it biggest performance). An has a lot of beautiful skins too, so you are not doomed to monotony.
Cons: I am Brazilian and the new version is not available in Portugese yet.
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3 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 7.54
"Fast, easy to use, easy to install/unistall, 100% customizable!"
Pros: FREE, you can custumize almost ANYTHING you like in the browser! Yes, buttuns, colors, special efects, address bar in the bottom, personalbar, tabs bar. Lots of skins with colorfull or just "simple-advanced-user-like"!
Plus, you got BLOCK UNWANTED POPUPS, this means, it will not block when YOU choose to click on a link that opens in popups, just that boring Ads and thinks like that!
But if you want to, you can choose to block all, or none, or open popups in background. You can use it to check mail also. Limit number of visited websites to remember, also number of typed(is not the same thing!) sites.
Perfect, Opera DOESN'T GET ANY SPYWARE.ADAWARE,TROJAN, WORM or any of the kind, like Internet Explorer.
You dont need to make those "critical update" every week! Because opera is SAFE.
Opera works on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Linux, FreeBSD i386, MacOS, Solaris, OS/2 and much more... (It has also a very popular Mobile version)
You can download as MANY languages as you want:
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified,
Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Norwegian (nynorsk), Norwegian (bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Brasilian,
Russian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Turkish.
Cons: The banner
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 7.54
"Too graphics heavy. Hurts my eyes. It's not free."
Pros: Fast and works well.
They have versions for mobile phones which can resize large sites to a small mobile phone screen.
Cons: Too graphics heavy.
Costs money. Other browsers are free.
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