Opera Playground

Few weeks ago, I installed openSUSE 10.3 onto my old laptop, Celeron 433Mhz, RAM 160MB, originally running on WindowsMe That's not used by me, but my student who doesn't have her own PC.
It works comparatively fine, yes, not very fast, but almost usable conditions, with KDE 3.5. Before installing openSUSE, it used Fedora Core 3 (!), which I installed years ago. SUSE is doing a good job indeed. openSUSE has no trouble to use Japanese with beautiful fonts, fine Desktop OS.

BTW, SUSE offers delta rpm for Opera, e.g. opera-9.23_9.24-15_0.1.i586.delta.rpm is only 739KB! Someday in the future, other OS users can use those kinds of diff files to update Opera with ease.

Well, as announced earlier, Firefox 1.5.x series lost official support today.

Firefox 1.5.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until April 24, 2007. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2.

I use 2.0.x on Windows box, but still have 1.5.x on Linux. Fedora Core 6, the latest public distribution from Fedora project, offer 1.5.x as their key application. They offer rpm package of Firefox 2.0.x only at Development repository. So we can get it and use it with related, dependent packages like Epiphany or Galeon.
Fedora project will offer security patches in the future, if they need them, for 1.5.x of Firefox. Fedora is Linux, so its use is by one's own risks, OK.

What about Windows users? There seems to be quite a lot of Windows 95/98/Me users out there. As far as I know, on those Windows, 2.x or above Firefox doesn't work as expected. Some may invent tricks, and will make it work there, in the real world, though there might be no official support.

[Edit] On very close to the end day, they offered the announcement that it will extend to the mid of the next month. Confused!