Posts Tagged ‘Opera’

In my last post about Slackware Linux, I mentioned how Slackware does not automatically resolve dependencies.

Tonight, I had to deal with a dependency issue in order to run Opera, my favorite browser ™. Here’s how I dealt with it.

I downloaded and installed Opera. It installed without errors, but, when I tried to start it, it didn’t.

So I opened a terminal window as root and started Opera from the command line, like this:

cd /usr/bin
./opera

It threw an error message that it needed the file libqt-mo.so.3.3.8.

The whereis command revealed that there was no file in a default Slackware Linux 13.0 installation whose name started with libqt-mo.so.

I teleported into my Slackware Linux 12.2 box and found the file. In fact, I found several files whose first name was libqt-mo.so. I scp’d them all over to my Slackware 13.0 box and copied them to the /usr/lib/qt/lib directory, which was the name of the directory in which I found them on the 12.2 computer.

Still no luck. Opera continued to complain that it could not find the file in /usr/lib/opera/10.10.

Never one to use a scalpel when a hammer would do, I muscled them right into /usr/lib/opera/10.10.

Bingo! Opera ran.

It’s busy synchronizing itself right now.

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I’m not going to discuss how to browse the web. If you needed to know that, you wouldn’t be there.

Instead, I shall talk about things specific to Opera.

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Opera v. 10 was released this week for Windows, Linux, and just about every other operating system. Since a lot of persons have never tried it, I thought I’d take anyone who’s interested on a tour of it.

This is not an unbiased review. I am a rabid Opera fanboy; I’ve been using it since v. 5 (I think) and gradually have gradually moved more and more of my Internet life to Opera. Nevertheless, I hope it is a realistic review.

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Google’s Chrome browser will be included on some Sony computers, according to Bloomberg. The story states that

Internet Explorer had 67 percent of the market in February, and Chrome had 1.2 percent, according to Net Applications, a Web-tracking firm based in Aliso Viejo, California. Firefox claimed 22 percent, and Apple Inc.’s Safari had 8 percent.

There has been much ado about Microsoft vs. Google lately, not just in the market but also in politics, such as this report on Microsoft’s lobbying efforts. I’ve certainly done my share of fulminating about Bing, not as a search engine, but as a Microsoft business strategy.

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Then I fixed it.

The new laptop arrived Friday afternoon. I spend Friday afternoon and evening doing basic configuration and Saturday fine-tuning it.

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Mozilla broke free and created Firefox back in 2004. Since then, they have been growing in browser popularity. Being the major browser in Linux, but also downloadable for Windows and Mac helps a lot. The ability to install Add-ons also makes this browser very flexable.

On June 17th, 2008, Mozilla released version 3.0 of the browser (with version 1.9 of the Gecko engine). They wanted to put a big dent into the Internet Explorer market, so they created a “Download party”. The idea was to get a record number of downloads for the launch – a Guiness World record, that is. They created Download Day to promote the record.

However, the day of the launch was not good to Mozilla. They got ready to push out the browser, but a website glitch caused the download to be delayed. Within a couple hours the site was back up and running, but Twitters abroad told of other locations you could go to download the software.

Could this hamper the World record efforts? Well, since there was no world record before, the answer is No.

But what Mozilla DID do is 8 million downloads in the 24 hour period. That was more traffic than Mozilla ever has seen. The Linux community did their part in getting the new browser, but it was really the “average user” that helped bring this number so high.

The Mozilla – IE battle still goes on. Also with Safari, Opera and Chrome in the picture. But did you know that AT&T also put out a Browser? Well, you will find out all these great facts and more in the Week in Tech History.

Also, we mention the 3rd step in the Summer of Geekazine contest. #Geekazine Rocks.

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Reuters reports here. It’s basically a summary of the press release here.

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MarketWatch reports that Microsoft is in trouble in Europe for Internet Explorer. Again. Or is that still? Read the full story here.

Here’s an excerpt:

It was a complaint from Opera that spurred the European Commission to issue an objection in January to Microsoft’s practice of tying its Internet Explorer browser to its dominant Windows operating system.

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I have been a rabid Opera fanboy since Opera v. 3.

I now have gotten Opera on the netbook that I discussed here. Here’s how I did it (hint: it worked the same as if I were on regular laptop or desktop):

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I reported it on Geeknewscentral.com – Opera came out with version 9.5. Now Opera was noted a couple months back for getting 100% of 100% of the ACID3 test. This tests the W3C standards of the browser.

Check out the browser update here. Firefox is trying to get a Guiness record of downloads when their new browser comes out next week. Let’s just give Opera a good boost to say “Hey, we have even another good option”.

Opera is available for Windows (95 – Vista), Mac OSX and Linux. Download here