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Originally Posted by Ramrod
Whats the advantage of Opera over other browsers?
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Based on my own personal experience
Opera is faster than other browsers (it is faster than IE and feels faster than firefox)
More secure than IE, although this applies to Firefox as well
Skinnable
Built in email is quite good, but you do have the option of using whatever email client you want (I use Thunderbird)
Virtual post it notes.
Download size (16 Meg with latest Java, 3.5 Meg without)
Full WAP support (OK, not much of an advantage, but if anyone offer a WAP site with no web equivalent, you can view it).
Mouse Gestures (you can control opera with quick mouse movements, e.g. holding the left button and dragging to the left goes back a page)
Opera can "pretend" to be different browsers. This involves chanaging the Agent ID sent to the server, but can be used to get around browser checks.
Tabbed browsing. It can automatically create a new tab in the current window when asked to create a new window (thus keeping the taskbar at the bottom clear). It can be configured to open new windows instead, if desired.
Rather bizarrely, it also includes it's own system for creating Powerpoint-style slideshows..
Cons
As with all browsers, some pages will not display correctly (esecially if they use IE onl features)
Can use an awful of memory (was running it on 2000 server yesterday and it was using 120 Meg of memory :disturbed: )