Three Easy Steps for Opera on Fedora 8

Firefox browser has been around quite long now. Firefox (Mozilla) had served millions of pages since its early versions. There are only a few full featured GUI-based browsers that made it to linux world, one of them is Opera.

Opera site says:
Why Opera? Safe, secure, powerful and fully customizable, the Opera Web browser is faster and more secure than other browsers available on the market. Opera delivers robust security and a far-richer feature set than any other Web browser and it's free.

Opera is the Web pioneer that delivered tabbed browsing in 2000, and Opera 9.2 features lots of other great tricks for quick navigation, including Speed Dial, a quick way to put all of your favorite daily sites at your fingertips. You can also take, save and trade Notes attached to any Web site while browsing, or Create Search shortcuts from any search field on the Web. Opera 9.2 is super fast and free, secure and stable, and offers lots of great tools for Web Developers.

Top Opera features include the following:
Tabbed browsing
Surf the Web easier and faster by opening multiple Web pages within the same application window. demo

Fraud protection
Opera's advanced fraud protection protects you against web sites that try to steal your personal information. Watch the demo to learn how to enable this feature. demo

Add your favorite search engines
Right-click on the site's search field and select "Create search" from the menu.

and more.


To learn more of Opera, visit this link.

Here are quick simple and easy steps on how to install Opera browser into a Fedora 8 linux box.

1. Download Opera linux installer for free from here. Make sure to select the linux version for Fedora. You would see a version for Fedora Core 5, 6 and 7. This brower rpm version is just fine with Fedora 8.

2. Simply install the Opera package using rpm linux installer like so

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# rpm -ivh /downloaded/opera-9.24-20071015.6-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm
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Opera would be installed to Applications > Internet .

3. Launch Opera! Alt+F2, opera

HTH