by @Macarlo
Windows 2000 Professional Beta Tester
(Screenshots by Namo Capture)



Hi everyone.
Today August 18, 1999 I just tested here on my Windows 2000 Professional Beta 3 the alternative browser Opera, version 3.60, and runs fine I tested Opera surfing on the Net with 16 pages (from 15 web sites) loaded at the same time. Yeaaahhhh! Fantastic! Opera 3.60 runs on Windows 2000 rather thar on NT4 SP5 and rather that on Windows 98! I'm registered user and recommend this browser: is fast, light, cool.



Opera is not for free. You may evaluate it for 30 user days, as opposed to calendar days, but after this, you will need to register Opera for US$35 (normal single licence price). The registration code you then receive will remove the time lock from Opera. For the test period, don't fill in any fields, but click on 'Evaluate' right away. After Opera expired, you can no longer access sites other than Opera Software's own.

Photo above shows Opera 3.60 surfing fine on @Macarlo's Windows 2000 Pro Beta 3

Same people use browsers to surf on the Net for hobby but I use browsers only for works and I need extremelly efficiency and high speed. In my work in @Macarlo, Inc. Internet Services I need to check at same time 15 sites.

I tested Netscape Communicator 4.04, is a very good browser, but I see now that Opera 3.51 and Opera 3.60b3 outpaces it. Netscape don't load 15 home pages at the same time and that job for Opera is easy, simple, effortless.

Last month I worked exclusivelly on Windows NT4 SP4 and I tested Opera 3.60. I tested also the Internet Explorer 5.0 and, now, the Neoplanet 2.1. IE5 runs rather than Netscape on Windows but Opera 3.60 runs rather than IE5. Running Opera 3.51 and Opera 3.60 on my OS/2 Warp (running seamless, as a native OS/2 application) I verified that Opera is really the fastest browser currently available. At this time NetLabs is porting Opera to OS/2 and Opera will run on Warp as a native application, without Windows support.

Today, running Opera 3.60 on my new IDE (Windows 2000 Professional Beta 3) I verified that really Opera is the best in show! I was surfing with Opera with 16 pages loaded at the same time and at same time I was running Defrag on a volume with 1,99GB and also working with Namo Web Editor and my total CPU consume was only 14 per cent!

About Opera

What makes Opera so different is the combination of small size, speed of loading both Internet and local HTML documents, versatility in loading and displaying webpages, its many customization option and its sheer functionality.

Through its unique features, Opera can help you save precious online time and avoid frustration, particularly when you are on the road.

Features you don't want to miss

Opera is the only commercial browser that supports the highest level of security: 128bit SSL 2 and 3, as well as TLS 1.0. No need to compromise your security with only 40bits or 56bits. 128bit encryption is considered impossible to hack, making for a secure online shopping, banking and soon also email communication experience.

Opera can open multiple windows (SHIFT-Left mouse button Click) rather than multiple browsers, which saves memory and time and provides you with a lot of power when it comes to document navigation and management.

Another unique feature to open a new document window in the background, without overlapping the one you are currently reading (SHIFT-CTRL-Left mouse button Click). A real boon and timesaver when you surf through large search engine listings or links pages.

You can toggle the graphics display in realtime (G), and not just via your general preferences. This means that if a document loads slowly because of too many graphics or large image sizes, one click speeds up the loading process dramatically.

Many web documents are not nice to look at. So if you come across a document that has a light text colour on a dark background, you can toggle between the document settings and the user settings with one click (CTRL-G).

If the font size of a document is too small, you can zoom in and out + and - -- from 20% to 1000%!

Opera supports a large number of Netscape-compatible plugins, including the 32bit Java plugin from Sun. A number of supported plugins can be found here.

Opera can also be used to retrieve information using FTP, Gopher and WAIS, and for reading newsgroups. The same simple user interface is used for all these services. You can also send electronic mail using Opera or link to an external mail program.

Furthermore Opera can play MID and WAV sound files (utilizing a plugin), display GIF and JPG images, play AVI videos (provided you have Video for Windows installed). With the use of plugins, Opera can also display a large number of multimedia files.

Opera has been written for Microsoft Windows, and uses the standard Windows program design philosophy. Users will therefore recognize most of the functions from other programs, such as text editing, etc.

Opera cannot connect to the web. What's wrong?

If Opera doesn't connect to the web right away...

If you are using Opera on a local network, and you have Name Completion enabled (it is enabled by default), go to Opera's 'Preferences/Advanced', and click the ôName Completionö button. Enable the setting ôLook for a local network machineö.

Windows uses a communications module (winsock) to accomplish Internet connections. This file is either called winsock.dll (16bit) or wsock32.dll (32bit). You should have only one file with this name on your computer. If you use Win 3.1x, make sure you only have this one copy of winsock.dll on your disk (usually the one that came with the dialer) and make sure it is in the path statement of your AUTOEXEC.BAT. Rename or delete all other winsock.dll copies from your computer.

Once you have followed these steps, you should not have any more problems, because a) Windows knows where to find the module, and there are no conflicts with other winsock.dll's on your disk.

There are several other things that can potentially hinder Opera from loading websites or displaying them properly. These include:

Cookies and Referrer Logging -- many sites require them

Offline Browser Mode -- make sure it's not ticked (File Menu)

URL Redirections (Cache Preferences) -- make sure they are not ticked

Proxy Settings -- untick them or fill in the proper proxy name servers

Synchronous DNS -- If you use the new Microsoft Winsock 2.x (comes with Windows 98), you may have to ENABLE this in order to make Opera load documents properly .

CONTACT AUTHOR

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