Re: Opera browser native FreeBSD (was Re: AbiWord)

[Lin Jianfong]

The problem is though, linux-java jvm on FBSD is not working very well (I'm 
not sure if this is fixed already). All linux plugins such as Flash, 
RealPlayer, etc worked except when loading java applet, the browser would 
hang up and eat all system resources. I'm using FBSD native mozilla for this 
reason alone because FBSD native jvm works. This problem has persisted for a 
long time and I'm not sure if it ever got fixed. I believe this should apply 
to Opera browser (or not?) regarding to plugins.






From: Jud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], BSD baby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Opera browser native FreeBSD (was Re: AbiWord)
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 06:12:41 -0500
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:23:02 +0200, Vallo Kallaste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:10:52AM -0800, BSD baby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

Browser-based apps are what I do, all day.

And Opera is the best, by far:

http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/?platform=freebsd

FreeBSD native.  Fast. Small. Wonderful font-rendering.
Totally HTML/XML standards-compliant, etc.
If you use the web all day, it's worth paying the $39 USD
to these nice people up in Norway who made this great browser.
(To show my support, I bought 10 FreeBSD licenses.)
I declined my plan to buy licence after I discovered that
linux-opera runs under linux emulation faster and takes ~3MB less
memory than native version. They have long way to go before I
reconsider buying the licence. The system I discovered it on is
133Mhz Pentium, 64MB memory and runs -current, so it's enough slow
as it is, and the difference in linux-opera and native version comes
out very sharp.
I have licenses for both the native and Linux versions.  Another reason to 
use the Linux version is that there are more plugins available for Linux 
than FreeBSD.  You can also try the Linux version 7 preview, which is not 
yet available in a FreeBSD native version.  It's a preview, so not all 
capabilities are working, but it does have a perfectly serviceable mail and 
newsreader in the 4.7MB download.

Jud



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