Even the URL bar is an addon.
by schwim on Sep.05, 2009, under Software
Opera 10 has been released to great fanfare and many news outlets are taking the time to let us know how great it is. Cnet wants us to know about the great game widgets you can install on it.
There’s still no easy way to block ads. But you can now play basketball with it.
Opera has stated that it won’t implement an ad blocking measure into the browser for altruistic reasons. They don’t feel that they have the right to strip content providers of income.
In reality, it wasn’t too long ago that Opera was forcing you to look at ads that they embedded in their own browser if you opted not to pay for a web browser.
So, it’s simple. They feel a kinship to people serving ads.
For those that missed it though, you can now play basketball in Opera.
Just what we needed.
September 5th, 2009 on 10:05 pm
Yup. Gave Opera a whirl early this week. Woo-hoo. Actually it went pretty well. Installed directly from the site with their deb package. Feeling kinda guilty since it wasn’t “the Debian way”. Seemed pretty quick, but then I don’t have FF 3.5 yet. Interface is good but to me it remains different for the sake of different and not different/better. To each his own, I guess.
Flash 10 out of the box was nice. Like you, I missed AdBlock very quickly. My life is probably considerably diminished by my lack of enthusiasm for widgets. I’m back on FF now.
I assume you have your party hats on order?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/04/windows_launch_parties/
September 6th, 2009 on 5:15 pm
I read about the house parties last week and couldn’t be bothered to ridicule it. There comes a time when things like this are just expected of certain entities. If they do something that comes out of left field, I’ll be on it like white on rice.