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Originally Posted by Richard M
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How about the fact that Opera does everything I want in one, easily downloadable and small package?
How about the superior platform support in Opera? Firefox is available for the Mac, PC and various flavours of Unix. Opera is available for all those, and Windows based PDAs, Windows based Smartphones and all Symbian based phones. On the Sony Ericsson range it is free (no ads).
How about the fact that Opera can view Wap or HTML sites on all platforms, and can, if necessary, intelligently reformat a site to fit on a small screen (ideal for PDAs and phones - infact it does a good job with Cableforum).
To match it's functionality with Firefox requires at least two downloads (Firefox and Thunderbird) and a few extensions as well..
That, combined with the fact it's smaller than Firefox (when combined with Thunderbird and extensions).
The mail client is integrated within opera for more efficiently than Thunderbird integrates with Firefox (you view it as a tab).
Still, as the old saying goes, each to their own. Any competition against IE is good (not that I am saying IE is bad, just that competition means that it forces all browser vendors to look at enhancing their products).