Possible Opera Fix

Internet Explorer is now something less than the necessary evil it once was for many of us. Thankfully, the real fallout of the Netscape-Microsoft was not the limp-wristed settlement that the Redmond legal team finagled. Nor is it the stiff-armed approach of EU litigator who continue to hold Ballmer's balls to the wall of European competition standards. In Europe, Microsoft has been fined US$600million (a piddly amount for a company who's annual European revenues are several billion $US), ordered to open up some of its code to licensing, and even to sell versions of Windows sans the odius Windows Media Player.

All of which means fairly little for a company that has fast-tracked itself into a multi-media conglomerate and for whome the server business is rapidly falling behind.

Luckily for users, techs, and developers, this means that the Windows Open-source and free software flora has flourished as Microsoft has turned its attention to greener, more iPod-like pastures.

Thank god for Opera. If not for Opera, Mozilla, and their ilk, we in the IT world would still be struggling through the pop-ups just like the 80% of computer users who use the factory-installed options. I would just rant on into the night, but since eclecticism already did it, I'll scamper along. Just click on the Better Browser link on this page to escape the horrors of IE.

>>The fix that I had previously posted did not, in fact, fix the issue. Many apologies.<<<