Free the Internet

On September 20th Opera ASA decided to make it's award-winning webbrowser Opera free of charge. Previously you could get a free copy with advertisement banners inside the program. As of version 8.50 these are removed.

What this means is, that even the most notorious IE or Firefox users have no more excuses for not enjoying the Internet as it is meant to be. Now go and download Opera ;-), see what it can do, have a look at the tutorials or the tips and tricks and join the community. If you want to get really advanced have a look at the Opera Wiki.

As a little starter I made some custom buttons for you. To use them just click on the links and they will be added to the My buttons section in the customization menu (SHIFT+F12). After that you can drag them wherever you want them to be in you very own Opera. My preferation looks like this:

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BugMeNot

If a site requires you to log in to continue (i.e. nytimes.com) simply click this button to get a username and password immediately

Search this domain

Do a google-search on the site you are currently viewing

TinyURL

if you want to send the currently open address to someone and it's very long... just make it tiny!

Hope you like these buttons, cheers
Matthias