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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kamikaze on August 30, 2005, 12:57:43 pm

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: Kamikaze on August 30, 2005, 12:57:43 pm

Opera is a good proprietary cross-platform web browser. There's a free version, but it has ads. Well, for Opera's 10 year anniversary the company is giving away free registration keys for Opera.

Get one here: http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml

You don't actually need to use a real e-mail, so enter something like "[email protected]".

*posting this from Opera* :)

BTW: They're only giving out keys for a day though.

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: ChronoReverse on August 30, 2005, 01:20:07 pm

Hmm, I might as well nab one (or two)

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: Fury on August 30, 2005, 01:32:10 pm

This is cool, even though I happened to buy mine just 4 months ago. :)

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: Sandwich on August 30, 2005, 02:55:58 pm

Well, this is finally convincing me to download and install Opera. I'd tried it out previously (back in version 6? 7? Something like that...), but I wasn't satisfied with the overly glitzy interface and MDI method of handling windows (this was pre-tabs, IIRC).

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: EtherShock on August 30, 2005, 04:44:49 pm

Awesome! I'm kind of partial to Firefox now though. I used to use Opera. This can't hurt. ^_^

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: achtung on August 30, 2005, 06:06:16 pm

Opera seems a little overly "prettified" but it seems ok otherwise.  But since im a firefox finatic it still is on the backburner.

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: vyper on August 30, 2005, 06:08:05 pm

Always useful for testing purposes.

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: Kamikaze on August 30, 2005, 06:44:57 pm

I find Opera to be a more advanced browser than Firefox in terms of features and useability. The one issue I had when I used it exclusively was how unstable it was. Opera was much more unstable for me on Windows than Firebird (that's what it was called at the time :p) was. The session saving meant crashes wasn't too big of a deal, but it was still annoying. That was back when Opera was on version 5 and 6 though. :p

BTW: I just installed Opera 8 on Linux too. Very nice stuff. I like how they're using QT, it's a very nice GUI toolkit (and must make their cross-platform efforts a hell of a lot easier).

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: Goober5000 on August 30, 2005, 08:11:15 pm

So will this key work on any computer you put it on?  My own computer is rather disassembled at the moment.

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: mikhael on August 30, 2005, 10:04:01 pm

Opera. I actually bought a key for Opera back when its biggest selling point was that it fit on a floppy disk.

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: SadisticSid on August 31, 2005, 02:52:23 am

Awesome, I can go legit at last... :p

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: WMCoolmon on August 31, 2005, 04:00:49 am

Quote

Originally posted by mikhael
Opera. I actually bought a key for Opera back when its biggest selling point was that it fit on a floppy disk.

http://www.offbyone.com/

Works on a 486 with <= 8 MB RAM.

Title: Opera Key Giveaway
Post by: BlackDove on August 31, 2005, 04:06:08 am

Wow. Too bad Firefox works for me.

I guess it doesn't hurt to have it to test your websites and shit though.