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Opera - take the web wherever you go

This is a comment I posted to a post, "Why you should be using more than 1 web browser" in Blogger Tips and Tricks. It was later that I thought this is worth posting in my blog. So here it goes. The comment has been edited to remove some of the irrelevant parts and add some more. Refer to the post for the original comment.

There are many, in fact so many reasons why I love Opera. Friendly UI, simplicity of design, the RSS reader, mouse-gestures, voice recognition, widgets, etc... (too many to list.) I agree that Firefox is a very good browser but there a some good reasons why I choose Opera over Firefox. Security and Speed are the key factors. Opera is undeniably faster than Firfox. Try doing a test yourself and do some research on it. You will agree. Opera is THE most secure browser in terms of bug fixing and vulnerabilities.(Refer here: IE | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Konqueror ) It has built-in fraud protection [SCREENSHOT] and when you access an untrusted website, it wont just end up saying "The website you are accessing uses an untrusted certificate." Opera will indeed give you a brief description WHY it is not trusted and even gives you the option to view the certificate itself. This is the best way you can decide whether to accept or deny the certificate. [SCREENSHOT]

Firefox has one thing that I don't like. It keeps copying other browsers (specially IE) [LINK]. You will feel the difference with Opera. It feels like the browser of new generation of browsers.

You seem to love Firefox with Google toolbar. Well, have you heard about Opera Widgets [SCREENSHOT]. There are couple of Opera Widgets out there which is the same (sometimes even better than) as the Google toolbar [LINK]. You can install one of those widgets just like you install a Firefox extension and voila! you just got Opera with Google toolbar. [Opera Widgets are now accepted by W3C too].

Opera has so many features you are yet to discover, Opera has recently launched 9.5 beta with a lot new features including Opera Link (bookmark synchronization). Have a look at this post for more details.

Opera pioneered many of the hit features present in most browsers today [LINK]. Did you know that Opera was the first browser to introduce tabbed browsing, the first to introduce pop-up blocking, and the first to introduce integrated search boxes within the browser.

Opera is a cross-platform and even a cross-device browser, having versions of it running in TV systems, game consoles, pocket PCs and mobile phones. I myself use Opera Mini on my mobile phone. [Note: I used Opera Mini to post the original comment.] Well, Opera Mini is no more called a mobile browser. We call it the Opera Mini web browser because we can view web pages just the same way we view them on a desktop browser. Opera has gone beyond the screen size and brought the full web to the palm of our hands.

For a last word, have a look at this article. [LINK]

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Ameer

at Wednesday, November 14, 2007  

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