Opera Eliminates Ad Banner and Licensing Fee

[BUFF]

"Opera Software today permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its award-winning Web browser. The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download - completely free of charge – at http://www.opera.com."
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/09/20/

[dangel]

Yikes - what on earth are firefox users going to complain about now?

Kidding!

Good news, well done

[Stringent]

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

^^ much better

[Decemoto]

Unfortuntely, it's doubtful whether they'll be able to give it away with all the popularity Firefox has now! We'll see though, more competition is always good; it keeps everybody trying hard to improve their products, which can only be good for the consumer

[dangel]

Unfortuntely, it's doubtful whether they'll be able to give it away with all the popularity Firefox has now! We'll see though, more competition is always good; it keeps everybody trying hard to improve their products, which can only be good for the consumer

Well they had a heck of a lot of requests for 'free keys' when they handed them out the other week

I'm dubious about stats tbh as Opera indentifies as IE by default, to ensure compatibility with certain websites which either refuse Opera or had out completely different html (i.e. MS sites like MSDN do this!).

TBH i'm doubtful anything can make market share against IE - and it'll be even worse when IE7 is out.

[fuji]

nice, using both firefox(functionality) and opera(features) here.

[Mike Fishcake]

Might consider giving it a go when firefox gets all the exploits due to increasing popularity

[peterb]

And so a great browser gets even better! Still worth the licence fee I paid two years ago...