Opera Browser is Free Today!

By Geoff Duncan Published August 30, 2005

Norway’s Opera Software is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Web browser product by giving away free copies of Opera on August 30th. Opera is normally free to download and run, but the browser displays ads unless users enter a registration code. For today only, anyone can get a valid registration code from Opera’s site. Registration codes for the desktop version of Opera are normally US$39.

Opera is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, and three varieties of Linux and offers much-demanded features like tabbed browsing, integrated searching of Google, Amazon, and eBay, pop-up blocking, integrated RSS support, interface skins, and support for IRC-based chatting. Opera is also leveraging its technologies onto mobile phones and other portable devices.

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