DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Opera

We (can I include myself in the DSL community) might/should ask Opera.com to give us a particular freeware licence that allow us to redistribute it for free. Mozilla did it before launching the triple licence (MPL, GPL and binary-only).
I like Opera, apart from the licence objection, the other problem is that it doesn't display .xul files.

Quote (clivesay @ Jan. 03 2006,08:35)

Just so you know.....

I recently did a comparison of FF and newer Opera on a p166 with 32mb ram.

Opera at first opening was 95 seconds....ouch!
Firefox was 75 seconds.....not much better

BUT

on second opening....

Opera was 35 seconds
Firefox was still 75 seconds.

Good info to know

Chris

I definetly agree with you mate. Opera is much more faster than Firefox. Iam on 200MMX with 128MB memory and Firefox is slowest browser i have ever use.

Opera is free now and can be modified as you want it to be. So i cant see any good reason not to change it. Even Opera's browsing technique is faster than Firefox's. :cool:

i think it's not possible because of this license thing.

BUT: it would be really cool to have opera instead of firefox. extensions are nice, but firefox is extremely slow - and opera runs like a charm on older machines. it would fit great into the dsl philosophy.

You can still use it.

Just download the appropriate extension from the myDSL repository.

Users with limited RAM should use the UCI extension for Opera

Quote (D0rk @ Feb. 09 2006,11:23)

Opera is free now and can be modified as you want it to be.

I see some people still do not understand the differences between "free" (as in no charge) and "open". If you actually read the Opera license, you'd see that Opera cannot be modified. Opera cannot be used on anything but a pc, which may hinder future development of DSL if Opera was included in its base.

Opera is a commercial product...it may be free of charge and now free of ads, but it is still commercial (not open source, not GPL-compatable, not friendly to those who strive for open standards).

This does not mean it can't be included in DSL, but that it probably won't be.

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