Opera 8.50 Free Download
Filed in: Downloads — September 21st, 2005
Finally, Opera goes FREE! Download your copy of Free Opera 8.50 now!
Today we invite the entire Internet community to use Opera and experience Web browsing as it should be," said Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "Removing the ad banner and licensing fee will encourage many new users to discover the speed, security and unmatched usability of the Opera browser."
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Opera was selling at USD 39 per license. Now it is free! For sure, Opera will gaining more browser share now. The question is that the share from IE or Firefox? Will current Firefox users switch to Opera? I will try Opera 8.50 and see if it is able to make me switched. 
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September 21st, 2005 at 8:50 am
yeah! Support Free/Open Source!
September 21st, 2005 at 1:29 pm
downloaded it yesterday, yes opera is great but i’m too used to firefox. kinda lazy to switch to opera. doesn’t seem to remember my passwords in opera i dont know why although i set it to remember in entire server option.
September 21st, 2005 at 1:45 pm
hisyam: there is a “magic wand” in the toolbar. Click on it and it will fill in username/password and login for you.
September 21st, 2005 at 1:46 pm
at least one less CRACK to find
anyway Opera is fast
September 21st, 2005 at 2:05 pm
Opera is fast, but it takes more memory than Firefox, try to open the ‘Task Manager’ and you’ll know
Firefox is good, but if you let it open and don’t use it a while, it’ll be very slow at the startup when you restore it back, wonder why.
September 22nd, 2005 at 11:55 am
oh..okay i got it now, thanks.
is there an adblocker for opera like firefox?
October 6th, 2005 at 8:45 am
[...] there are even people thought Google might sponsor StarOffice and make it free, same like the recently example – free Opera which looks funny to me, Google make Opera free so that Opera signed search referral deal ( same idea like once you login IE the first site it prompt its MSN ) . i don’t see what Google can gain for making Staroffice free. [...]