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Opera: Your mother should know |
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By Ashlee Vance in San Francisco
May 5, 2003
You can't trust a mother when she praises her child, but you can trust dear old Mum's recommendation for a new piece of technology.
The latest instance of approval from the matriarch followed her installation of the Opera browser. It seems with version 7.1 of Opera for Windows, a bunch of Norwegian programmers have done what Microsoft still can't - make a browser that puts loads of good features right at any mum's hands.
Out of respect for Apple's good name, the squalid lump of code known as Safari
won't be compared to either Opera or Internet Explorer on this occasion.
Mum rang up after encountering an endless barrage of pop-up
advertisements, while surfing the Web. She needed help getting rid of the
buggers and didn't know what to do. Opera was the answer.
It took some
convincing to persuade Mum to try out a new browser. At first, she did not even
know what a browser was exactly even though she uses one every day. She looked
for the big blue E and knew it would take her to Yahoo! mail.
She is,
however, the adventurous type and was willing to give Opera a go.
After
a relatively painless install, it took all of 15 seconds to shut off the pop-up
adds tormenting Mum. Unlike Internet Explorer types, Opera users can dart over
to their quick preferences and select from not one but four pop-up options:
Accept pop-ups, refuse them, open them in the background and open only those
pop-ups the user requests.
This last option is a key addition Opera has
thrown into version 7.1 to make its browser truly first class. In the past,
turning off all pop-ups meant some hassle was required when, for example, a
desired Java applet wanted to start in a separate window. This is a problem no
more.
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...This article was contributed by JD5000.
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