I vote Opera for best browser

[atoz350 10+ year member]

I recently tried Opera to see if it benefits me any better than Firefox. Mind you, I customized Firefox to fit every need I had. I could download torrents right through the browser as well as have the look that I wanted with my desktop. It was pretty hard to beat. My reason for trying another browser was that Firefox is slow as balls. Even with all of the tweaks in the world, it still took forever to load pages. IE was much faster, but it doesn't offer any customization.

I downloaded Opera just to try out. At first I didn't like it. I kept trying to re-skin it to match my desktop and was not successful. After working with it for about a week, I've finally found a skin that I can work with. It is not as customizable as Firefox, however, as it is not as well known. I guess that's also a good thing as people aren't writing malicious software for it either. The ability to download torrents through the browser is built in with no 3rd party apps. needed. It also has an imap email client allowing me to check my email without opening Microsoft Outlook! The only thing I am missing now is the built in spell check. That's the only thing Firefox had that I'm missing. I guess if I search a little more, I'll find it though.

Opera is lighning fast. Way faster than IE and runs circles around Firefox. I love it. I've uninstalled Firefox after using it for 3 years. I still have to keep IE on my computer though as my company's website can only be viewed in IE. Otherwise it would be gone too.

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[bigwheel15 10+ year member]

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

interesting

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

I switched to Opera because all my favourite features in FF are available by default in Opera without the bloat of the "great" add-ons FF has.

I am way more satisfied with Opera than I ever was with FireFox. There are other good browsers out there (there are about 14 or 15 different ones I try periodically on my home PC) but Opera is #1 for me.

And IE7 closed the gap on FF in a really big way. Of course, the people who use FF will continue to talk about how much better FF is when reality says just the opposite.

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

You can speed up Firefox to be just as fast as Opera. Other than that, I don't like the layout of Opera. And people try to say IE7 "Upgrade whatever" is better than Firefox, but I'm pretty sure Firefox still has better security, AND you can add whatever utilities you want to firefox to customize it perfectly to your taste.

Imo, Firefox>Opera>All others>IE7

 

[Mynameis 10+ year member]

i use opera mini on my phone. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

I use IE7...

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

Oh, and you can make Opera spell check.

http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/opera/spellcheck/

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

lol

 

[J31Rob 5,000+ posts]

Imo, Firefox>Opera>All others>IE7

Winn4r.

 

[HitManSE 10+ year member]

They all spell check do0d.

This is true.

 

[cpierce 5,000+ posts]

Opera pwns:fyi: I'm on a Mac though...

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

It truly is all about preference though, with the way they are all almost equal. I guess security would make the only true difference, and I don't know enough about all of them to make a definitive call on that. I would be interested in knowing which one is the most secure though, if it's not Firefox, which is what I was always told years back.