Opera 10.60 for Linux: A rant | Linux Today

Opera 10.60 for Linux: A rant

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 5, 2010

“I’ve made no secret of the fact that despite my open source
advocacy, I’m still a longtime user of the Opera browser.

“However, the past year has been pretty rocky in that respect;
Opera 10.10 for Linux was plagued with a lot of bugs, crashes, and
performance issues, rendering it practically unusable, even for an
Opera fan such as myself, and despite 10.50 being released for
other platforms in March, the Linux world was stuck with the
problematic 10.10 (and eventually 10.11) release until this
week.

“Finally, after such a long wait, Opera 10.60 was finally
released for all platforms on July 1st, so I was finally able to
ditch Firefox and Chrome and go back to my browser of choice.

“Or was I?”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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