Browse the web safer with Opera

During the past few years, we have seen and witnessed the emergence of so many web browsers, all focusing on security since perpetrators breached into Microsoft's flagship web browser, the most popular Internet Explorer.

Many of us have since bowed to Mozilla Foundation's Firefox. For sure, Firefox and its plethora of addons is a must for any surfer and tech-aholic.  But we have other choices as, and in this case here, a better choice to Firefox.

Opera for some unknown reasons has seen itself fall from zenith for no reason.  I believe Internet Explorer reached out to people in such tremendous force that Opera was in no time in the dark, for Opera was amongst the first generation of web browsers.  It has been out there much before any modern browser and has been in constant development.  The last few years have seen Opera rising in fame again.  Let us not forget that Opera introduced tab-browsing.

I have been using it since now  6 years and I have nothing to complain about.  I just don't know why web designers don't use Opera's powerful features and make their web sites compatible with it.  Opera has a huge collection of built plug-ins and its easy to add more.

New features are always on-coming in new releases of Opera; there's always something new to play with at some point in time with Opera.  The newest version comes with the "speed dial" idea which allows a user to quickly select a favourite website he or she has set.  This is a real time saver.  You could just put all your favourite search engines and community sites and they would all be just one click away.

Opera is also very easy to expand with the widgets.  Thousands and thousands of people work on developing the widgets and  you can have anything you want. A particular one I like is the Sudoku widget - nice thing to play around with waiting for that download to be over.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you can embed and play games in Opera while you are browsing.

I see no reasons why you shouldn't give it a try. Its packed with features, loaded with options, fast in dealing with downloads, its a time-saver, its faster and its OPERA.  A well-deserved name and reputation to live up to.

 

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Fedora Core 6 (Zod) : Not Upto Expectations!!!

After downloading the DVD of FC6 (codenamed Zod) for 2 weeks I pretty disappointed by what I got. I did a nearly complete install of the thing since I am involved in development and web technologies a lot as a student in Telecommunications Engineering.

The first sight of the new interface and loading screen and all those very fine and polished graphics based on the DNA was more than amazing. Half of my thirst for Zod was blissfully quenching after experiencing this new and much refined system.

As soon as I logged in I tried to remove some software which I won't use and add others! To my great surprise, Zod won't allow me access to the software list without an internet connection!!! What the heck!? DO you need an internet connection to remove software! So, I switched on my wireless LAN card (I had FC6 set on my laptop). And the indicator lights for the card won't light up!! Ooops!! I check out the Device Manager - my card is well recognized but for some reason FC6 won't enable it! I can't even add new softwares for the DVD, it will ask me for repo0 or something. They such a mess out of what used to be a simple operating system. My first experience with Linux was Red Hat 8 and 9 years ago, on which FC is now based.

OK fine, let's move one and explore a bit more. I try enabling the Desktop Effects! It tells me it cannot enable it. This is utterly impossible since I do have a powerful enough graphics card on my laptop - an ATI mobility X1600 with 512MB HyperMemory. SO i say let's install the graphics drivers and to my even greater shock, my whole linux system crashed afterwards! The drivers worked fine in my other system, such as Ubuntu and Knoppix.

SO, obviously, after much dissatisfaction of Zod, I switched back to Ubuntu, which I dare rate as the premium Linux OS, after what I would call the fall the FC6. I am much disappointed! But still very satisfied with Ubuntu and Knoppix.

If you want to give it a try and test it, here's the homepage of FC6:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

I hope you are luckier than me.