opera 9

Products Editor James Gray recently sat down for a virtual gab fest with Håkon Wium Lie Chief Technology Officer of Opera.

They discussed Opera 9.5, Opera's history, why Linux users should choose Opera and much more.

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With the release of Firefox 3, I mounted a private celebration: I went back to using Opera 9.5 as my main browser.

This wasn't just perversity. Firefox without its add-ons is clearly inferior to Opera. Firefox with enough add-ons to make it really useful is very much slower.

And Opera has one advantage over all the competition which is enough to outweigh all its other faults to me.

It’s 2008.

Firefox 3 was just released - years of work, thousands of bugs fixed, new features thrown in.  No file upload progress meter.

IE7’s been out for awhile, but I don’t have a copy here handy to test.  My memory is telling me it doesn’t have one, or if it does, its very unobtrusive and not immediately apparent.

Opera 9.5 was recently released.  No file upload progress meter.

Konqueror 3.5 - no file upload progress meter.

If you are like me, you are passionate about your browser preferences. Lately, I have been installing Opera 9.25 as my browser of choice.

To make it the preferred web browser in Gnome, follow along as I install the browser on a RHEL 4 system.