IModIntel

Amen to that!

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blindartist

its got all the functionality firefox does, actually more out of the box then ff

Nanogrip

I use Opera for both my XP64and Ubuntu. I have used FF before and it is just slow compared with Opera. Using the scripts to match Opera is also just slow because Opera has them built in. Widgets are cool for Opera, though I very rarely use them, it has it's own built in download manager along with torrent support. Opera is also more secure from what I have been reading, but I think almost all popular browser are safe to use (unless you intentionally test them constantly). And it looks much more cleaner. Also I like the fact that I can move the tabs to the bottom of the browser. So now I have no FF installed, I do have Chrome and Maxthon installed (Maxthon is great btw) though. I am waiting for Chrome to mature. Once mouse shortcuts become available, I will uninstall Maxthon.

Unixlord

Opera has more sub par useless baggage out of the box that's not functionality. The mail client? The torrent downloader? The content blocker? All of them are utterly crap if you're remotely serious about the browser you'd be using replacements. They don't "work fine" and they're not OK. Opera's widgets are child's play things, you'd expect that kind of thing in a mac.
Even the 2 most basic firefox addons which are adblockplus and noscript go far beyond opera's capabilities. Sure you can wank around and reproduce a fraction of their features but you won't get far. That's before other amazing addons such as flashgot and downloadhelper. Don't believe me? Try them and see for yourself.

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blindartist

it all depends what your looking for unix, opera isnt for everyone, neither is ff, ive played with opera quite a bit and your over exagerating a little m8, anyways, i only like firefox because of the way it does things, theres only like 3 plugins for it that i find even remotely useful.

Unixlord

I don't think I could have tried any harder to migrate my laptop to Opera. My motivation was Opera's somewhat faster handling of flash/javascript and I happened to have a soft spot for Qt 4. Then the browser's "can-not-do"s hit like a boulder falling onto a pastry. Sure Firefox has maybe 3-4 really useful addons but that compares well to Opera's zero useful widgets and its inadequate extras.

I still use portable opera for when I'm away and until chrome gets its act together that's the way things will be. Even then I sometimes have problems with portable opera as is common with all portable apps but it's usually nothing that restarting the app can't fix.

I wouldn't dream of crippling my browser capabilities at home by using anything other than Firefox (plus IE for those rare websites that only display properly in IE).

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blindartist

I cant stand IE personally, i havent really found any sites that arent right in ff, maybe a couple little diferences but nothing that would make me ever actually fire up ie lol

I cant say i care for chrome, unless they bring out themes and what not, i find it ugly, childish looking and awkard, and it honestly isnt any faster then ff, not that i can tell anyways.

nCaine

Well i runed into fee pages that needed IE to even open , like BOTS page , befor the update.

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Superfly

I'm surprised that so many people still use IE and so little Opera users...I myself use Opera, it looks nicer and the tabs are better when you have multiple sites open at once. I admit that the little widgets are useless, I actually found out week ago that there even were widgets.

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DOOMJESUS

opera for me.

firefox is close but requires you to download extra stuff to get it to behave like opera does out of the box.

chrome is not ready but looks promising.

i have a friend who swears by seamonkey but i didn't really care for it.