May 22, 2012

Opera removes ads

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 [...]

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Mozilla browser

Old Mozilla logo

Curiosity got the better of me today and I downloaded the latest version of the Mozilla browser (now known as Sea Monkey). It’s a hefty 11MB, which I scheduled to download at a quiet time of the day on my slow dial-up connection. I’m very happy with Firefox, so this was just an experiment. I’m [...]

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Web browsers

kmeleon

I see that Opera has released a new version of its web browser. I’ve never been tempted to try Opera, because there’s a fee to remove the advertising links, but I may have a look at this out of curiosity. I stopped using Internet Explorer a long time ago. I didn’t like the constant popups [...]

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