I just made a clean install of 11.61 and I must say Opera is awesome. Almost seamless, its highly customizable and fast. It clearly rises above its rival. It's simply amazing. Thank you!

10.60 update is a major f*ck-up in terms of page rendering

Hand down the best browser. Why doesn't everyone use Opera eludes me. It's the fastest and most seamless of them all.

The best browser ever!

i use the prealpha version (opera next) mainly because i think it is better and faster. though the only thing is that some file extensions don't work on this.

Also some webpages are incompatible with opera such as google image (when u put ur mouse on the image it should expand) or conecting to servers that are private.

Also this is my web browser choice and google chrome.

Fast and powerful browser, which consume low memory

The coming of age for Opera at 11.50.
Though I liked the earlier design a bit more, its nevertheless very good. But, also, everyone seems to be copying Chrome's "minimalistic" interface; it points to lack of innovation [IMO]. Thankfully, every aspect of the design remains configurable. You can even remove the 'Opera' button on top left corner if you want to.
I am 100% sure that since Broadband access is not what everyone has, Opera Turbo is a life saver for many.

Speed Dial, password sync are turning out to be very useful.

The browser is certainly very fast. However, I felt Chrome was even faster. This is not from any 'testing' but rather experience from real world usage scenario. But there are no privacy concerns; this outweighs speed comparisons.
Tab thumbnail preview feature is quite amazing as well!

There are plugins for Opera from VLC Media Player and even Micosoft Office 2010 [surprise].

Despite lack of extensions [like Firefox or Chrome], everything else can be changed - "about:config" is quite easy to understand and not as cryptic as Firefox's one. Its basically GUI based and things are very clear. There is also a 'Reset' button for every type of setting!

There are certain aspets which need improvement, though:
01. As compared to Firefox or IE, there is no 'direct' method of deleting browsing history; you do it using 'History' tab or 'Preferences'.
02. No 'Pause' button for Download Manager even if the link supports it.

Overall, the browser packs a punch. There are very few site incompatibilies, but its essentially the fault of the sites and not Opera. The truth is, despite being the most full featured browser, its the smallest of the big names.

It definitely deserves much more market share than it has [2%], but only if you consider v10.50 and later.
Opera is not as resourceful as Google, but if they can advertise a bit more, I will not be surprised if they gain more market share.

Bottomline: 92/100.

crashes to much. and also it cant use some websites. also when you pause downloads it looses data

It is an excellent web browser till date i had seen, the traffic control feature it has is amazing....
Overall a very good browser

A fairly average browser and surely overhyped for its status. It is indeed the most sensible browser out there and the perfect tool for a lil web-surfing adventure. The developers have made sure to stay as clear as possible from add-ons, which I believe is an excellent move. This Browser is robust, easy to use and can be extremely fast too.

However it is not what I would call ‘the best’ though. Even on a dual processor 10GB RAM computer, this browser struggles once you have opened at least 6 tabs at once. Stuck tabs, slow loading and the bitter helplessness of the Turbo feature really lets this browser down. You get the feeling that they should have added an extra requirement to this software, stating that performance will eventually start to wear off independent of your hardware. Much of the features of this browser however are unique to opera only and are pretty good too. The speed dial feature is the silver lining of opera in my opinion.

It is a bit of nothing to everything, if I do say so. You can go online and witness the webpages load faster than you can blink your eyes yet once you have 6 webpages opened at once, this whole software starts to fall apart. The feeling is quite common to the one you get from buying out of an infomercial only to find out that the flaws hit home harder than the strengths of the product.

I won’t recommend opera, but I also won’t say that it is a bad browser. All I can say is that it delivers better than other browsers on the market today, but it comes at the price of limiting your usage to an almost optimum level.

even better than firefox ever could be with all those clumsy addons . i would recommend this software to all firefox users.

Version 11.10 just came out yesterday and i updated it the moment it came out. It is everything the opera developers promised. It does have some tweaking issues though, starting from the fact that I am getting a concerning amount of stuck tabs. This is a bit suspicious, given the fact that the browser itself is not frozen, it is just that once a new tab is opened I cannot switch to it for some reason. I really hope that they can give a fix for this problem soon. Another problem with a few operas that I have tried is that the side panel often appears automatically without any user command to do so. Certain JavaScript’s and flash videos often starts playing automatically (a feature which was supposed to be user controlled). But these issues are however overshadowed by the excellent browsing experience given by Opera.
I am very happy to see that with this new release, the browser only got better. The ‘turbo’ feature has been finely tuned and being an everyday Opera user I can conclude that it is faster than ever. This browser is simply an A* quality software all around. I am also happy to see that compared to other browsers; Opera has not made add-ons its main priority. This is because web browsers always starts to glitch and go insane once you start messing around with installing and uninstalling add-ons in an effort to 'improve'it.

Opera is what a web browser should be. It's fast, has tons of add-ons, has attractive and customizable skins, its own e-mail program, the wonderful "Speed Dial" page (can add and access your most visited web pages with a single click at start-up), slick tabbed browsing, and so many other features that users will love. Before Opera, I had been using Firefox since the version 2 days. Now, I have no interest in going back to Firefox. What's the point? Besides, Opera runs smoothly without the crashing. Still has some compatibility issues with websites, and they still need to fix printing from websites (pages print strange or not at all, and cannot view all pages in Print Preview). Still, for browsing the Internet, Opera is the best way to go.

Opera is unrivalled in the easiast way of adding search engines into the browser. None of other browsers offers such good work.
I think that it is a huge break-through in the realm of browsers. Excellent.

Integrated email client with all languages and regional settings support is excellent.

Opera browser is great but the newer versions lack two important things first it did not write arabic completely the second thing that it cannot search inside yahoo email box I have try it and every time I install the update and inform opera but nothing happened the same problems unlike the old versions are very excellent and less crash

This is the best for me...

I tested IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
Ex Firefox user, I use Opera since 4 years on xp and seven os.

Good for all user
Complete product
Website are more beautiful
Fast
Easy
Secure
Ergonomic
Lot of skin
and really more...

Try it some time, it's really hard to go back.

IE : the oldest
Firefox : good, but have too many add-ons
Safari : the lightest
Chrome : one of the better spyware...

I think Opera 11 is the masterpiece of browser right now. It's trully the fastest browser at this moment. It can defeats Safari 5.0x. It's a long waited browser I've been waiting for...but it has some minor compatibility when I open my internet provider web. It displays different compared when browsing using IE, Firefox or Chrome. Perhaps in the future, the team can fix this problem...

Load plug-ins on demand is very useful, in many cases, most ads are in flash and never get loaded. Further improves on page loading times.

I tried to make this run on 64 bit Windows 7 Professional. I could not make it work at all. It would not render its own web page. Maybe it runs on 32 bit versions, but I could not make it run on my version.

I have been using Opera for the past 6 years. It was a excellent browser up to the version 10.10 after which the problems started. I shifted my browser to safari which was quite trouble free. I don't like the interface of Chrome and the slowness of Firefox. Internet explorer 8 is a useless product only a computer illiterate will click on the IE icon.
The new version 10.51 has a lot of bug relating to Cache management , Cookies, and several security holes. These issues has been reported to Opera several times but of no use. They should listen to what the users has to say or else they will perish from the world.
Been using Opera for a long time now and I'm still as happy with it as ever. Especially once it became free and they removed the banners.
I used Firefox for a while and it's a really good browser also, but once you get hooked on Opera, there's no going back.
They also have an ingenious email client integrated in the browser, which is something quite different from the average email software, but can be quite convenient once you get used to it.
The interface is better than IE and better than FireFox. it feels a lot like AOL Explorer, if you use that browser. It is really pleasing to the eye.
The toolbars are highly customizable. MUCH MUCH more customizable than IE, and a lot more customizable than FireFox. I think it is on par with the customization you would come to expect in all those IE front ends like Green Browser or Maxthon or Avant.

The options are a lot like IE and FF, but Opera, as an added bonus, gives advanced users a more advanced customization window, like FireFox gives you, if you type in "opera:config" in the address bar (minus the quotes).

Overall, Opera handles most of the web standards much better than FireFox and IE. Acid2 for one.
Obviously, like FireFox, Opera doesn't have support for ActiveX. In some respects its a good thing, in others its bad.

I think the best part of it all, is that there is a whole forum set up at the Opera homepage designed to discuss Opera, problems with opera, Opera wishes and all that business. IE doesn't have one of those, and nor does FireFox...or at least its not clear to me that it does, unless you want to consider the sourceforge project page forum as their "forum"...I hate the sourceforge forums...they are so hard to navigate.
They have forums designed for Opera Windows, Opera Mac, Opera Linux and Opera Mobile...different issues for each, thus different forums for each.

I really like how they take supporting of their pages very seriously. If you visit a webpage and it renders improperly, either you can report it on the forums, OR you can click the HELP menu in the program and click "Report a site problem". A window will pop up appended with the link, at which point you can describe the problem you see and send back the problems to the server for analysis.

Just recently, the Opera team has started a blog (one of the millions of blogs available at Opera's homepage) where you can find a weekly release of Opera 9.0 builds.
IE of course doesn't do this...FireFox does this, though...through CVS or something.
What is nice about the weekly builds is that they come as installers as opposed to something where you have to manually copy files and settings over each build.

In terms of speed, Opera smokes FireFox and IE. It opens faster, it opens pages faster, and it renders pages faster. This is not JUST personal opinion. There have been a lot of published reports/tests which show this as well...even the old Opera 6 and 7 versions are faster than recent IE and FireFox builds.

The only negative with Opera is that with all the speed you enjoy comes a lot of memory hogging. I notice sometmes when I have a lot of tabs open, Opera will be using 100MB of physical RAM and 100MB of virtual RAM. I dont think its a memory leak as much as it is Opera storing information in the memory to make the program run a lot faster than its counterparts IE or FireFox.
Interestingly, whether Opera is using 40MB total physical and virtual, 80MB, 100MB or 200MB, it still runs and opens at the same speeds...indicating that the RAM usage doesn't hurt the browser performance.


So basically, its an awesome browser, which comes with everything you want in a browser and everything you expect in a browser. It does all this while being the fastest browser on earth, in a very pretty interface, and with a development team which is HIGHLY accessible on its forums, and which releases a new build every week.

I dont know what more you could ask for.

In short, the only real negatives about this program are:
1) a high memory usage
2) like FireFox, no support for ActiveX
3) the ad removal, like FireFox ad block, has nothing on programs like AdMuncher
4) like FireFox, since the web was built for IE, you will find some pages here and there which don't render 100% properly (maybe 80-90% properly or something). I find that for most sites that dont render properly, they render 99% properly and its that one little graphic somewhere that is places on screen somewhere it was not designed to be placed.


I switched from IE to Opera full-time 3 weeks ago and havent regreted it since.
Of course, though, I still require the services of IE since website through my college force me to use IE.

So I suggest you all give Opera at least a try!

opera is is excellenty
ilike opera
did you like opera?
opera we download anything you want
this is my comments
i love it opera
like everone

Very good browser effort coming from a small 3rd party developer.

However, they claim opera will use gtk or qt on their respective platform but that is not true. What they really meant is opera will MIMIC gtk or qt instead. While opera\'s toolkit LOOK wrong but FEEL light, java is the opposite (LOOK right but FEEL heavy). Qt maintains the best LOOK and FEEL on many platforms. I don\'t know why they need to reinvent the wheel? Atleast give me the option of downloading a 10.5x/10.6x version in qt. Now on linux, my scrollbar button is square. When I change to nodoka theme, scrollbar button has graphical glitches. Even the crash feedback textfield can\'t accept \'delete\' key (have to use backspace).

Opera 10.60 beta 1 is worse than their predecessor opera 10.53 beta. This version of browser has operapluginwrapper crashes. What\'s worse is hangs opera which need to manually kill the process. when it comes to the core renderer, i feel as if they keep adding features but not fixing or checking what is broken. Opera 9.2x renders drop-down menus in nwn.bioware.com perfectly. Opera 9.6x-10.53 broke drop-down menu on the front page only.
Now, opera 10.60 beta 1 broke all drop-down menus on nwn.bioware.com.
Please fix it before final 10.60 release. drop-down menus on www.blockbuster.ca are positioned wrongly in all version of opera.
no point claiming the speed crown if it renders many sites incorrectly.

Opera has been around for years, is in version 10.x, yet still doesn't have advance tabbed browsing, search aliases, or bookmark importing. It has a nice GUI, but functionally, it's not worth the download.

Voice has been removed from 10.53, everything except the button,the advanced setting, the download, the help pages that tell you how to install something that has been disabled.
IF its been REMOVED then REMOVE EVERYTHING, at LEAST TELL US ITS GONE.

For all those saying it is slow and has low picture quality/clarity - turn off opera turbo!!!

Opera Turbo is only meant to speed up dial up connections or 3G (it compresses web pages on opera\'s servers before sending them to you - reducing the amount of data to send).
If you have a broadband connection (2megabit or higher) opera turbo will only slow down your connection (due to increased latency - waiting for opera\'s servers to compress the pages, before sending them to you).

Disable opera Turbo and you will see how fast it really is (push f12 then untick opera turbo)

I have been using Opera for the past 6 years. It was a excellent browser up to the version 10.10 after which the problems started. I shifted my browser to safari which was quite trouble free. I don't like the interface of Chrome and the slowness of Firefox. Internet explorer 8 is a useless product only a computer illiterate will click on the IE icon.
The new version 10.51 has a lot of bug relating to Cache management , Cookies, and several security holes. These issues has been reported to Opera several times but of no use. They should listen to what the users has to say or else they will perish from the world.

Perfect!

Hmm.... Opera?

I have used it onmy phone but not in my computer..
Opera is my best friends at i have bought a Mobile Phone...
With the utilities,that very... wow,,
And opera can change a vew skin,if firefox must download,my opera does'nt.
But,Opera have one weak,why if we use opera turbo,the image quality always low?.

My reviews is Download Now!!!

Well it is good but not up to the mark. It is little bit slow in comparison to other browser like firefox, google chrome, Internet explorer in loading web pages.It has low clarity of images.Need more improvement

The same story continues,even10.50.3247 Beta also not compatible with many sites as mentioned in my earlier comment. Not able to open with the latest version also. What is the use, though it is fast.

Though it is fast and attractive ,it is not compatible many Web sites. I am able to open all with Firefox,Chrome as well as Maxthon. I have tried both 10.10 and 10.50.

Or configure the mouse/set up a corresponding mouse gesture (Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts > Mouse setup)

just use CTRL + S

It's an excellent and stable browser, even in I'm mostly a Firefox user.
BUT it's a very pity there isn't a "save (page) as" function button in the right-click of mouse. PLEASE.... insert it! it's simple.... I think!

09.11.08 01:47 GMT [Sun 9:47a PHT]

Opera 10.01 Build 1844 ~ © 1995-2009 Opera Software, Norway
Opera@USB 10.01 Build 1844 ~ © 2005-2009 Markus Obermair, Austria
. . .

PROS: Very Fast & stable Net Browser; the spell checker is an added plus.
CONS: After all these years the Publishers still HAVE NOT ADDED a 'create shortcut' to right-click on from the Web Page .. very frustrating
. . . .

Opted to install the Opera@USB version.

As far as 'practicality' & my Browser needs go, Maxthon is still my first choice--IE and Avant come next with The World browser coming in 3rd.

I'm still looking around & testing other Browsers..there must be one out there which I feel 1000% 'at home' with.

Wish me luck =]

This is a great, full featured browser. I've used IE for years and tryed out some other browsers like Firefox or Chrome but none has been so exciting has Opera, expecially this last version. I will stick to it for a long time from now on.

P.S. for those reviewers that say that Opera is the safest browser only because it is less used by people I say: That's cool with me. Just keep it that way.

" Better than ever" was all I said.

All I can say is that they're in the making. Thanks for your requests ;)

Dear Softpedia,
Opera 10 is a COMPLETELY new and redesigned programme with a new interface. So, we need NEW screenshots of Opera 10 and new review, where the NEW features such as HTML e-mailing,embedded dictionaries, new buttons and others will be shown and explained.
Thank you

opera more friendly and fastest then other browser...i always use it in my PC wherever

You have made available for download the English-only package, ignoring that there is an international multilanguage interface version available (which now includes Romanian btw).

Cristi

Opera 10 is great! The redesigned opera interface is very sleek and elegant

I've always liked Opera and it's very light and fast

1. Opera is the browser which I found slow but yes ...seriously stable than all the other browsers. (Had a faulty RAM and this worked like GOD. Even chrome had one or two crashes but this never crashed..luck maybe)
2. This browser can shut itself down as it now clearly has the same look and feel as firefox.
3. It is not fast compared to any other browser. (except IE8 which is a resource hog as well as a slow browser)

Very fast. Very light. I like Opera 10

Opera is an enignma. It has the most handsome GUI of all the browsers and browser shells, yet the functionality is far behing Maxthon and even FireFox.

The developer needs to get with the program and include tab options and tab groups. That would make this beautiful browser useful instead of just pretty.

- Opera is a great second or third browser, it's not a good main one
- Do not use Opera on sites that have images or prepare for freezing
- Opera is ONLY fastest on sites where images aren't present
- Opera is only one of the most secure because less than 1% use it.
- Opera's GUI is the ugliest of the main browsers

In summary use Firefox as your main browser and Opera as your secondary browser. Avoid IE until they decide to step up their security and remove Active-X. If IE ever does that then move IE into secondary and drop Opera to third.

I know firefox it's great web browser, but Opera it's great too.
Opera it's like 6 month ahead Firefox and 2 years ahead fo IE.

@ViciouslyCold

Firefox loaded with extensions needed to match Opera runs like a dog and eats Ram like a hog.
Opera is simply more elegant ( and has "Copy to note" on right click :) )

@marinus

~MHT try QiuckSaver plugin
~OK
~Did you check the "Closed" button ? It does exactly that ...
~OK
~ OK
~?
~It does offer me a list of choices when I type ...
~CTRL + TAB is your friend (it works in every Windows app.)
~OK (you can change the theme though)
~OK
~OK
~It is smooth on my PC
~You have to check the "set as default search engine " in Prefferences or when you are adding a new search engine
~Drag And Drop is working in Bookmark manager - Split view
~Didn't try
~I use gestures rarely
~Widgets are poor, I admit
~Ad Blocker IS hard to configure
~I didn't notice formatting problems in 10 ALPHA - in 9.xx, yes

I agree with your other statements :)

@ViciouslyCold
That doesn't change the fact that it IS MORE SECURE !

This is a rating based on what i call the 5 web standards

the standards are
1.website compatibility
2.browser customizability
3.security
4.speed
5.acid 3 tes

the results are

1. Mozilla Firefox -(2nd,1st,1st,1st,3rd)
2. Opera - (3rd,4th,1st,2nd,2nd)
3. Internet Explorer (1st,2nd,3rd,5th,5th)
4. Chrome (4th,3rd.4th,3rd,4th)
5. Safari (5th,5th,4th,4th,1st)

ok here is the thing. i actually test browsers out of the box not with addons or tweaking minus enabling something that will be enabled in a final build.

also for all the loyal opera fans who say opera is more secure. less than 1% of the world uses opera. opera would be the safest even if they didnt have anyone security features cause almost no one uses it. google chrome is used as much as opera is already and will soon pass opera in usage thus making opera less used then ie,firefox,safari and chrome. now why would a hacker waste time hacking a browser that will end up being only the 5th most used?

[NB: All the following flaws have been present in multiple versions of Opera and/or recurr over multiple installs.]

~ MHT'S, Opera's single-file 'web archives' are buggy, have never worked for me [and I see forum complaints by others too] .
~ COLOR CUSTOMIZING is the best of any browser, but is also complex and buggy. You can change any color, true, but be prepared to go through many permutations and even adjust colors of something else to adjust the color you want.
~ FIREFOXS EXTENSION "UNDELETE LAST CLOSED TAB" doesn't exist in Opera [shift-Z doesn't work for me]. It can be maddening to accidentally nuke a page and be unable to recover it [Opera's Undo rarely works].
~ "GO BACK ONE PAGE" works through mouse gestures [draw L, or hold right mouse button down while clicking left one] but neither consistently works, and they dropped the simple keyboard shortcut "Z" [doh!].
~ OPERA FORUMS HAVE NO AUTONOTIFY. So you have to return to see if anybody answered your question.
~ OPERA HELP IS LAME. A general search engine will get you information faster. [And by the way, it's particularly pathetic that [with my color settings anyway] Opera's own sites are distorted [stretched out vertically, most elements glued to left margin.]
~ SCROLLING IS THE WORLD'S SMOOTHEST, BUT IS TOO FAST. And lacks speed adjustability. [Click scroll wheel mode is inconvenient.]
~ NO URL AUTOCOMPLETE. Go figure. Such a simple usability feature and if even Microsoft got it right..!
~ NO PAGE/TAB CYCLER [LIKE XP'S ALT+TAB, AND, SOON, FIREFOX]. I may be childish but I want one!
~ NO USER-SETTABLE WALLPAPER [Even just a few paper textures would be elegant. Any widget writers out there listening? And why no 3D/drop-shadows on tap [for text or images]? But these are feature requests, not beefs; i digress.
~ NO FLASH VIDEOS DOWNLOADS [neither widget works], going into cache is always a pain and can be very hard to find right .swf],
~ NO BULK DOWNLOADS LIKE FF'S DOWNTHEMALL. There is a workaround, but Downthemall is faster & easier.
~ PAGES LOAD JERKILY. Yes, standard, but why not build in a keep-first-section-fixed-onscreen-and-load-rest-out-of-sight, so page view doesn't lurch up and down!? Hard on the eyes!
~ ADD [& CHANGE DEFAULT] SEARCH ENGINE DOESN'T WORK, OR IS UNDERDOCUMENTED AND/OR IS TOO DIFFICULT. You get Ask.com as speed-dial, and Opera's choices of other engines on toolbar, and that's it, despite their claims to contrary.
~ BOOKMARK MANGER IS INDUSTRY [SUB-] STANDARD [when oh when will somebody deliver a drag n' drop interface so one can simply drag unsorted bookmarks into different folders!? Any developers listening?].
~ IF YOU FIGURED OUT HOW TO SET SITE-SPECIFIC COOKIES THAT SURVIVE 'DELETE PRIVATE DATA' CLEANINGS, WRITE ME! That can, for instance, screw up sites like Stumble Upon [PS: see my review for it].
~ MOUSE GESTURES are sweet, but if Opera did it first, Firefox does it better, via extensions. Opera's isn't user configurable. I want to be able to double-tap a mouse-button to go back or forward, instead of drawing an L, or typing a keyboard macro, etc.
~ WIDGETS [Opera's version of FireFox extensions] are ok, but they don't have the developer pool that Firefox attracts and Opera's interface is inferior.
~ NO AD BLOCKER. Some workarounds exist but they're difficult to implement and/or site specific. How I miss FF's "AdBlocker Plus".
~AND WORST OF ALL: OPERA MANGLES PAGES, loses formatting. They say it's due to their closer adherence to Web Standards but that's cold comfort [and even their own pages get scrambled!!]. If you want to see pages how their designers intended, Opera isn't for you, and, considering that they're already near their tenth version, it looks like it'll never be.

So i'm panning Opera? No, all the above is [except for ad blocker gap and page format scrambling] trivial in comparison to the following...
~OPERA IS LIKELY STILL THE FASTEST BROWSER [Chrome won't count till more than a stripped-down featureless testbed, and FireFox bogs down with the extensions it needs to match Opera.]. You can even fine tune faster!
~OPERA IS THE MOST SECURE BROWSER, according to independent security industry leader, Secundia. There's an Opera widget called Stay-Secure whose bar-graph displays Secundia's minutely updates of # security events in all browsers. I've never seen any appear for Opera, unlike the competition. Very reassuring.
~OPERA IS [THE MOST] ERGONOMIC BROWSER. From interface color tinting choices to Zoom-To-Fit [a very handy and easily defeatable zoom option unique to Opera], if you don't like it in Opera, you can change it.
~OPERA IS STABLE. To match [and sometimes surpass] Opera, Firefox needs extensions. But most destabilize Firefox. I used only a half-dozen and it crashed about once every 3 hours. This despite a specialized backup extension called FEBE, which also disappeared in action. :) I had to laboriously reinstall and reconfigure my extensions every time. The last time it lost crucial bookmarks so I was forced to give it up. And this on the same computer on which Opera ran and runs stably for years.
~OPERA IS SMOOTHER than other browsers; everything fits and works with everything else. Subtle, but real. It makes every other browser feel klunky. And no, I'm not a touchy-feely Mac type.

It has its flaws, most of which are so old I think Opera Inc. has a case of NIH [Not Invented Here]. But its plusses are so massively useful and ergonomically-implemented that it has no competition.
Unless you need some specialized feature available only in a FireFox extension, Opera rules. Try it- it has features and speed, but even more importantly, raw usability [no, cooked usability!]. Opera, a massage recliner with rockets.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 w/ tracemonkey turned on, is about 3x faster on pages that run java and javascript then Opera is. Opera is also least used of all major browsers and will never gain ground on Firefox.

Opera is least customizable too, and lacks the features you can get in Firefox. whatever features Opera has Firefox can get through addons, too bad Opera cant do the same

It is indeed the most advanced and powerful browser on the market of Internet browsers for users.
Opera 9.6 is a great advance.

I'm not a full time web developer but have occasionally created pages. One feature I find really handy that is not on other browsers is that you can right-click on any page and choose "Validate" and then you can see if your page is valid markup or not by http://validator.w3.org.

I'm not a full time web developer but have occasionally created pages. One feature I find really handy that is not on other browsers is that you can right-click on any page and choose "Validate" and then you can see if your page is valid markup or not by http://validator.w3.org.

I think it is an excellent product to use .It gives you a new level of comfortability while using it.It has excellent features
I am enjoying this product a lot

@ file_master:

Did you try: tools->advanced->blocked content... ?
AdBlock plus is more advanced but this is a nice alternative...
for example:
*ban*.gif*
*pagead*
http://ad.*

For mouse gestures you can use 2 actions for one gesture using the \"&\".For example:
Close page & Switch to next page

I've always been a big fan of Opera, mostly for its amazing speed, low system requirements and superb integrated package.

Still, lately I've been using Firefox 3.0 more. Why ? One reason: AdBlock plus. You can't surf the net these days without a gread ad blocker and there aren't any for Opera. Sure, there are some amazing stand alone alternatives, like Ad Muncher, but still, nothing beats having such a program integrated seamlessly into your browser.

Separate ad blockers take up extra system memory and may interfere with some ad-based mmo's, of wich there are quite a few these days. Sure, you can close it when you play something, but nothing beats having it integrated into the browser.

TBH, Opera is a great package, but I see one major flaw with it. IMO, it will never get truly competitive unless the developers decide to go open source. It's ordinary people that make these packages great, since coding has become such a complex job.

BitTorrent Client is pretty useless, since most sites ban any client that doesn't have "Utorrent" or "Azureus" in its name.

Mail is very nice, but who uses POP3 and IMAP these days, when webmail dominates everything ? And even if you have a corporate account, it will most likely have some form of webmail as well. Who wants to configure mail clients when you can just enter your name and password and read your mail ?

Mouse gestures are very nice, but still not as configurable as FF's 3rd party addons.

Acid3: really, who gives a damn ? I realize it's all about web standards and all, but what good it does to respect a set of standards that nobody else seems to care about ? With all its "compatibility", you'd think it would display all the sites flawlessly, but unfortunately, that is not the case.

To be fair to this great program, the number of unsupported sites decreases every day, but IE and FF will still display flash-heavy sites faster and more fluently.

I'm not trying to crucify Opera, because it's still great, but IMO the only way to achieve mass adoption would be to allow 3rd party addons (and I don't mean the useless gimmicks known as widgets)

Compared to IE7, it still wins by a mile, but FF is a better (more configurable) overall browser.

btw anyone who sees new features on opera or any other browser and thinks it will help them catch up to firefox, needs to understand that any new feature available in other browsers will be available to firefox users as well with add-ons. firefox pretty much can have all the features of opera minus the widgets but the widgets are kinda gay in comparison to firefox's add-ons.

Opera is supposedly the only one to score 100 on the new acid3 test but that said its customizability issue will keep it from being the best.

firefox 3.0b5pre scored a 71 of 100 which is 29 less than opera yet its customizablility will keep it the best browser out there no named internet explorer. only firefox can catch ie as well, opera can claim best and such but it will never be what firefox already is and thats america's favorite browser. this is firefox's world, everyone else just lives in it.

I use Opera for 5 years , but I have also IE7 and Firefox installed on my PC, as I am a webdeveloper and I use the other two just for testing my pages in all the 3 most used browsers.I was always overwhelmed by the sheer speed of Opera, its ease of use, the straight forward and useful features. And if you think 9.26 is fast, just try the 9,5Beta because it's even faster.

The incorporated Mail client is one of the best I know, very fast and sincronizing my IMAP folders and downloading messages much faster than other dedicated Mail clients, such as Thunderbird, KomaMail, Reach-a Mail, etc. Newsfeeds are also availabe and the degree of customization is simply excelent and very easy to control

I know Opera is the fastes of them all ,has the most logical safety features that you can encounter in a web browser, a truly secuere and safe browser.

Memory wise, the new version has a smallest foot print than previous versions but bear in mind that also IE and Firefox are huge ram eaters.

I would not say only that Opera is the fastes browser on earth, I would say also that it is the Best Browser on earth

Opera is the Browsers' King. It's:
-simple
-fast
-secure.
No problem with memory uses. It's very customizable too. Simply it's the best!

No hay dudas, Opera es el mejor de los Navegadores de Internet. Sencillo y simple. Es muy configurable y no hace mucho uso de la memoria de tu ordenador.

As a longtime IE user right up to IE7 both at home and work,then more recently Firefox,which I loaded on my home system..I feel duped! never will IE Firefox be allowed on my home system ever..Opera is superb! by far faster no matter how many tabs are open..virtually instant. Fantastic features supported by tutorials,some with demos to walk you through it painlessly...in 30mins I knew more about Opera than I ever got too about IE..Superb aand countless widgets some for fun and others of real use. Opera , according to other reviews is far more secure than IE or Firefox...Opera switched the lights on as far as I'm concerned.

this is excellent product, but recently i have switched to Mozilla since it could be turned into much powerful browser than Opera. Favorite combination with mozilla:
- AdBlock plus
- DownThem All

A super browser indeed.I love this browser

Pros:
- Customizable(better than FF)
- Stable
- "Create Search" Function
- It's free
- Good content blocking and effective popup blocking

Cons:
- Some websites doesn't like Opera
- M2 needs some serious updating

I think it's the best browser so far. Doesn't hurt to have multiple browsers so go ahead and try it.

Excellent browser with many GUI customizations. All my extensions installed on Firefox are included in the box. Fantastic!

Now, Opera is my defaut browser on Windows and Linux. Firefox installed only for web testing. :)

problems with some sites: google reader, google calendar, writely, digg.com (v3), etc. (Due to small market share?)
Otherwise very good! :)

I decided to switch Firefox with Opera. After a few hours of using Opera, even with that amazing speed i had(as some one said "It smokes Firefox at starting speed and rendering pages")i decided it's not good enought.
Why?
1. I noticed that compatibility with some sites it's even worse that Firefox's. Google Pages? Nope not today. That is a big minus for me. I use that site alot (btw it works on Firefox)
2. Extensions". If Opera would EVER like to take the crown from FF it must include an addon system that would permit users make usefull utilities. I am so addicted to extensions that i see it as a standard browser feature.
3.Opera's Pop Up Blocker sucks ass as well as the integrated downloader and other "integrated" utilities (Extensions?)

Those are the reason i didn't uninstalled Firefox.

After reading the review by "Tokar" I decided to give Opera another try. I tried it a couple of times in the past but was never excited enough to keep it. Mostly due to the fact that you had to deal with the ad banners or buy it.

I have been using Firefox for what seems like a very long time now. I like the fact that my Spyware/Adware and Antivirus software doesn't pick up nearly as many items as they did when I was an Internet Explorer user. For that reason, I almost exclusively use Firefox.

Now about Opera. I won't even begin to describe all of the features. Tokar has done an outstanding job as always giving an extremely good review and I recommend that everyone who might be interested in Opera, to scroll down a bit and take some time to read it. I will point out the following...

Fast download
Easy to install
Easy to use
Easy to customize
It's FAST!

The broadband speed test shows that Firefox is faster but you could never prove it by me.... Opera simply seems faster!

I've been playing around with it for most of the day (sadly enough, I didn't have much of anything else to do). I tried it with the game sites POGO and Candystand - did some downloading, read some news, did some general browsing. Messed around with features, customizing etc., With the exception of some text formatting issues at a couple of the news sites I was browsing, It truly is an excellent browser. I plan to keep it around and who knows, I might even uninstall Firefox. I never thought I would say that but it's a possibility. Even though I like Firefox, after today, I believe that Opera does a better job and has better features to boot.

If you have used Opera in the past, give it another try, if you haven't, now is your chance. It's well worth it!!

Take care!!

Excellent browser.

If there were options for adding very valuable toolbars that I use (Yahoo, Google) this would be the ONLY browser I use. SInce they've taken a development approach that doesn't allow independanly created "Plug Ins" or, make it difficult to do so, it will remain a fring browser.

It's a BETA version with still lots of things that need fixing up ! Do not install over your current Opera !

Last official version is 8.5 !

I think I will avoid this build.

It says it has issues with flash.

Im happy with build 8238...

After using IE for 6 years...and trying out different front ends...and giving FireFox a try, I think that Opera is the best browser on Earth. I really do.

This is coming from an IE guy who has been ripping all those FireFox diehards who say the FF is the best thing since sliced bread.

Everything about this browser makes it the best. It gives you an awesome look and feel, one that somewhat mimics Internet Explorer but not exactly, whlie giving you a lot of the features IE has, IE doesn't have, and ones you would find in FireFox.

These features include:
-tabbed browsing
-show links in page
-ad removal (this is new in version 9.0 Technical Preview 2)
-ability to block certain things from showing in pages (java, flash, images, etc.)
-complete toolbar customization
-RSS
-customizable search bar
-page zooming

The interface is better than IE and better than FireFox. it feels a lot like AOL Explorer, if you use that browser. It is really pleasing to the eye.
The toolbars are highly customizable. MUCH MUCH more customizable than IE, and a lot more customizable than FireFox. I think it is on par with the customization you would come to expect in all those IE front ends like Green Browser or Maxthon or Avant.

The options are a lot like IE and FF, but Opera, as an added bonus, gives advanced users a more advanced customization window, like FireFox gives you, if you type in "opera:config" in the address bar (minus the quotes).

Overall, Opera handles most of the web standards much better than FireFox and IE. Acid2 for one.
Obviously, like FireFox, Opera doesn't have support for ActiveX. In some respects its a good thing, in others its bad.

I think the best part of it all, is that there is a whole forum set up at the Opera homepage designed to discuss Opera, problems with opera, Opera wishes and all that business. IE doesn't have one of those, and nor does FireFox...or at least its not clear to me that it does, unless you want to consider the sourceforge project page forum as their "forum"...I hate the sourceforge forums...they are so hard to navigate.
They have forums designed for Opera Windows, Opera Mac, Opera Linux and Opera Mobile...different issues for each, thus different forums for each.

I really like how they take supporting of their pages very seriously. If you visit a webpage and it renders improperly, either you can report it on the forums, OR you can click the HELP menu in the program and click "Report a site problem". A window will pop up appended with the link, at which point you can describe the problem you see and send back the problems to the server for analysis.

Just recently, the Opera team has started a blog (one of the millions of blogs available at Opera's homepage) where you can find a weekly release of Opera 9.0 builds.
IE of course doesn't do this...FireFox does this, though...through CVS or something.
What is nice about the weekly builds is that they come as installers as opposed to something where you have to manually copy files and settings over each build.

In terms of speed, Opera smokes FireFox and IE. It opens faster, it opens pages faster, and it renders pages faster. This is not JUST personal opinion. There have been a lot of published reports/tests which show this as well...even the old Opera 6 and 7 versions are faster than recent IE and FireFox builds.

The only negative with Opera is that with all the speed you enjoy comes a lot of memory hogging. I notice sometmes when I have a lot of tabs open, Opera will be using 100MB of physical RAM and 100MB of virtual RAM. I dont think its a memory leak as much as it is Opera storing information in the memory to make the program run a lot faster than its counterparts IE or FireFox.
Interestingly, whether Opera is using 40MB total physical and virtual, 80MB, 100MB or 200MB, it still runs and opens at the same speeds...indicating that the RAM usage doesn't hurt the browser performance.


So basically, its an awesome browser, which comes with everything you want in a browser and everything you expect in a browser. It does all this while being the fastest browser on earth, in a very pretty interface, and with a development team which is HIGHLY accessible on its forums, and which releases a new build every week.

I dont know what more you could ask for.

In short, the only real negatives about this program are:
1) a high memory usage
2) like FireFox, no support for ActiveX
3) the ad removal, like FireFox ad block, has nothing on programs like AdMuncher
4) like FireFox, since the web was built for IE, you will find some pages here and there which don't render 100% properly (maybe 80-90% properly or something). I find that for most sites that dont render properly, they render 99% properly and its that one little graphic somewhere that is places on screen somewhere it was not designed to be placed.


I switched from IE to Opera full-time 3 weeks ago and havent regreted it since.
Of course, though, I still require the services of IE since website through my college force me to use IE.

So I suggest you all give Opera at least a try!

now that it has bittorent client again, add searchengine wizard, widget applications support, lockable tabs and opera:config it's one of the two best browsers on earth and the only one packing so much in so little space

Very fast, bends to my will in every way possible, toolbars, adding custom search engines to the search bar.Saving my personal info and so on.

Only thing annoying is the history layout, I prefer IE's history layout, and using the third party Search.INI editor, eventhough it works fine, just seems like it should've been built in as well.

Look Maa No extensions! ;-)

Been using Opera for a long time now and I'm still as happy with it as ever. Especially once it became free and they removed the banners.
I used Firefox for a while and it's a really good browser also, but once you get hooked on Opera, there's no going back.
They also have an ingenious email client integrated in the browser, which is something quite different from the average email software, but can be quite convenient once you get used to it.

I've tried almost everything of the non IE based borwsers and Opera just rules the pack.Simple,fast,free,a must have for the serious web surfer

The last 9 version is not so good... Perhaps because is just a beta...
But the officially 8.50 it's one of the best...

Overall I think its excellent. Even though I'm a proud Firefox user. It just lacks some extension capabilities FF has. But ists great, and now its even free :)

As of today, Opera 8.5 is also free of charge.

No registration required. No ad banners displayed either.

And you forgot about " It has a price" ...in these days when most browsers are FREE.

In the past, i used to use IE.
But when i knew Opera, i am bored with IE.
IE is the bad browser ever i know.
IE is very slow.
But if you use Opera, it's the fastest browser on the world.
It loads page fastly, download and upload fastly.
And if you're using dial- up connection, Opera will useful for you because it enhace ( increase up ) your PC's speed.
You will be not bored with your browser.
Opera - easy to use, install easily.
You can change skins for Opera ( many skins )
Opera has voice.
Friendly interface.
This is Opera 8
Opera 8' s command is easiler to use than Opera 7.
It has phising killer.
And many utilities.
Download right now.
I am Opera's fan.