cbagger01
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Posted: May 15 2004,07:22 |
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Opera 6.12 had two distinct advantages over the other options:
(1) The fastest full-featured browser available. Especially important on older hardware.
(2) The install script required less available RAM if you were a livecd user. For example, the Opera download worked when booting from livecd on a 40MB RAM system. Firebird install download failed to work.
Opera 7.0x was noticably slower on old hardware. Haven't tried 7.5 yet.
The biggest problems with Opera and DSL are:
Opera is not open source software.
The free version displays an ad banner at the top of the screen.
Opera no longer displays most fonts correctly since DSL was upgraded to 0.6.x
It is assumed that the font problem is related to library issues, but nobody knows for sure what the problem is or how to fix it.
If you can get 7.5 to work correctly on newser versions of DSL, please let us know. It wouldn't be too difficult to create a script or a *.dsl for it.
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