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  • Subject: Re: [BL] free phone calls with BL2
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:26:20 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Sign up for google voice, wait three months for the invitation.

Fill in the numbers. If you have a landline or cell phone or an ATA VOIP (voice over internet protocol) device hooked up to broadband you can now log into your account (only took me 3 minutes at 233Mhz with Seamonkey 1.1.19 - Opera won't work there) and send/receive SMS messages and make outgoing phone calls from US to US at no charge. Calls from US to elsewhere are not free.

Opera 9 does work (Google was complaining about cookie settings yesterday on another laptop where I set it to allow all cookies) and is somewhat faster than Seamonkey to load at 233MHz, but Opera at the GV page uses 52% and later 62% of 96MB RAM and the pages load extremely slowly as well - Google is possibly even slower than AT&T and Yahoo. Too much javascript? A softphone needs 300MHz. A 400MHz was tolerable.

Turning off images did not help and the links do not all have alt tags. The 'New Contact' link is a picture of a head and +, and when you turn off images the tooltip also stops working (move the mouse cursor there to see 'New Contact'). 82 sec to switch from contacts page (five contacts) to inbox (three messages) - solid green box in lower right means you cannot do anything else while waiting.

Can you delete all cookies with Opera or just one at a time?
Has anyone bothered to try Opera 11?

Sindi




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