Anyways – Opera is, in my experience, the faster browser avaible. Not simple in rendering, but in it’s UI as well. Mouse gestures are incredible and I can’t even force myself to use Firefox anymore.

But to each his own.

But for those of us creating cutting edge web applications it is just extra work for 1-2% of the market. Don’t believe those who say that the fact that a browser is standards-based and your software is standards-based then it all will work. There are hundreds of small details that are not defined about how browsers should render when you dynamically update parts of a page. And there are those features not in the spec that everyone implements but each one slightly differently (e.g. keyboard handling, innerHTML, execCommand).

So the bottom line is that if web applications keep getting more and more sophisticated and a browser only has 1-2% of the market it’s prospects are not great. Fortunately for Opera they have a decent market share in mobile.

Opera’s built in RSS newsreader and email client is phenomenal…makes it so much simpler to track everything. Mouse gestures make it much simpler browsing (Right mouse button + Left mouse button = Back button; Left mouse button + Left = Forward button), and so intuitive once you learn to use it. Being able to build custom searches (visit any site with a search box, right click it and you can search it from your address bar).

Firefox has addons that incorporate a lot of these features, like Fast Dial if you like Opera’s Speed Dial, but these are third party and don’t always mesh as well.

Firefix is a HYPEBOX

Opera Rules all the way !!

Not quite:

http://www.oper...stors/faq/#faq3

1) Sessions
2) Select > RightClick: Search With (custom searches)
3) Select > Go to Web Address

The only thing Opera is missing is a true Google toolbar. I miss its mouse-over translation feature.

There’s more – I use Opera on my desktop (Linux and Windows), laptop and mobile phone and Opera Link synchronises seamlessly between all of them, it’s fantastic and you only have to set it up once.

The big guys never manage to kill off Opera and there’s a good reason for that, it’s about time people realised that the Opera fanboys might be on to something…..