The Opera 8.5 browser is now free — free of cost and free of ads.

Download it from their web site here. The reason I posted this however wasn’t really to mention that it’s totally free now. That’s a nice upgrade from the ad supported version certainly, but likely still not enough reason that I’d recommend anyone download it and use it as their daily browser.

Instead, I really liked their clean “splash” page. The horizontal and vertical lines, the use of white space (and gray space), a nice amount of color with a not so original, yet definitely appropriate image.  Click below for a large image.