Opera strikes licensing deal with Adobe
Posted by malebolgia on 30 September 2003 - 16:16 · 15 comments & 3846 views
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#1 Posted by Gahmahn on 30 Sep 2003 - 17:38
- Good for Opera!! I think it's great that this has occured.
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#2 Posted by M3M on 30 Sep 2003 - 18:02
- This is Great!! I've been using Opera for over a year now and I absolutely love the program. IE still has better support for most everything, but I like it soo much I've put up with it's small quirks using IE only where I have to.
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#3 Posted by kairon on 30 Sep 2003 - 19:19
- People still use this? Wow obviously Mozilla has a lot of loyalists to deal with.
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#3.1 Posted by Jugalator on 30 Sep 2003 - 20:26
QUOTE (#3.0) People still use this? Wow obviously Mozilla has a lot of loyalists to deal with.
Hehe, actually in my case, I used Mozilla until I got stuck with Opera.
But it's using a weird GUI with the toolbars etc until you reconfigure it, IMHO. Fortunately, Opera is highly configurable when it comes to that. The default skin is wayy too single-colored to me as well...-
#3.2 Posted by ~Bull}{Dog~ on 30 Sep 2003 - 21:12
- Mozilla was the first alternative browser I used. Don't like Firebird too much but I did use it on an older system for a while, Opera eats lots of ram with its cache so..
All in all I prefer Opera to Mozilla now, cant think of any real reasons but well.. I just prefer Opera.
Mozilla is the best freeware browser you can get though.
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#4 Posted by Wickedkitten on 30 Sep 2003 - 19:31
- Adobe aren't the only ones, If you use Studio MX 2004, or any of its components (on the mac anyways) it comes with Opera instead of using IE as default like it used to do.
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#5 Posted by jmc777 on 30 Sep 2003 - 20:44
- "........said Live Leer, a spokeswoman for Opera."
What a superb name!
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#6 Posted by nic on 30 Sep 2003 - 22:40
- Its good that they are incorporating a browser other then IE. I hope this will help leed to a tomarrow where everything renders correctly in every browser. This may make the butt head web developers that only test their pages in IE to wake up.
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#7 Posted by Sushubh on 01 Oct 2003 - 09:31
- yohoo... its alternative browser time!!!
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#7.1 Posted by ~Bull}{Dog~ on 01 Oct 2003 - 10:00
- I always prefered the Lynx emulation mode
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#8 Posted by antsy on 01 Oct 2003 - 12:02
- Why pay for opera when they could of got it for free
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#9 Posted by Galley on 01 Oct 2003 - 13:06
- Wow, what a great victory for "the little guy"!
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#10 Posted by nummi on 01 Oct 2003 - 22:30
- Hmmm. I hope Opera is better on the Windows side than on the Mac... in my opinion, Opera is one of the worst browsers ever.
"The big difference now (with Opera inside of Adobe products) is that application providers can test Web and mobile pages within the program itself, whereas before they had to launch an external application," Leer said. Leer declined to specify the terms of the licensing agreement between Opera and Adobe, in San Jose, California. Adobe products including the Opera rendering engines will be released as early as this year, she said. Representatives from Adobe could not immediately be reached for comment.
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