The popular Opera web browser is now available without advertising. Although unobtrusive, I never liked having the ads there and used Opera infrequently.
I’m now more inclined to use it on a regular basis. Like Firefox and Mozilla, it’s cross-platform and can be used in Linux or Windows.
Why did they remove the ads: “Opera’s growth, due to tremendous worldwide customer support, has made today’s milestone an achievable goal.” There is a premium support service for US$29.
These articles might be of interest:
Opera is also available for Mac OSX. I don’t mind Opera but still tend to fall back to Firefox. However… I am having a lot of resource issues with FF, since version 1.04 and am looking for a viable alternative. a Free, adless Opera as my secondary browser to Safari, might just do the trick. The thing I especially like about it is its ability to be a bit of a chameleon as far as some websites are concerned which insist on IE and which on Mac, I refuse to use because its old and ugly.