Having been a user of Opera since version 5 or something back in the earlier days there’s one thing I know for sure: Those guys rock.
The browser supports quick-searches (i.e. in the adress-bar you write ‘g sex’ and you’ll automagically google for sex), it has keyboard short-cuts for quite possibly every function in the whole damned program, and through opera:config you can edit it to your hearts content (my Opera menus are really small). Opera’s what you want it to be. You might be thinking that you don’t want the email/rss/irc/bittorrent/widget (gadget or plugin)/wand (autofill forms)/speed dial/mouse command/standards-support because you don’t need it. Perhaps you think something else is Gates’/Jobs’/Zawinski’s gift to the unwashed masses and would rather revel in them, that’s your prerogative, but I’ve used all the other “majors”, and I can tell you this; using them was like trying to run uphill. I kept thinking that it would be better at any moment because it was unfamiliar terrain, but in the end running uphill was running uphill.
Which ends my rant, and hopefully you’ll check out this little article by an Opera-employee about open standards which should be embraced by everyone that’s making browsers. *takes a deep breath* Thank you! *grins*
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