Well seems like maybe the felt they had to release something as people were
starting to say that Opera for Linux was never going to happen.
Jeanette
At 05:40 PM 12/24/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Works quite well?? Downloaded & installed it and all I can say is this
>appears to be 'alpha', not 'beta' software.....segfaults galore,
>webpages splitting up into 'black' areas and viewable 'chunks', quite a
>bit of functionality missing from the menu options, and it just plain
>blows up when clicking on some of the buttons in the dialog boxes for
>those menu options that ARE 'working'. A lot of work still needs to be
>done to this package, and I'm a little surprised they released this as
>'beta'.....most OSS 'betas' are much further along than this proprietary
>program in terms of functionality and stability, and I can't even
>remember a Mosaic 'beta' ever crumbling this badly. If I'm getting a
>proprietary browser, then Opera will need to really fix what they've
>done so far before I'll even consider buying it over Netscape 5.0 (if it
>ever comes out!!!).
>
>Tom Snell
>"'Cuz I'm goin' to Arizona, just a rider in the rain..."
>
>WH Bouterse wrote:
>
> > Yes its true from Slashdot site I downloaded it.
> >
> > As of now it works quite well
> >
