Opera Web Browser

I'm not that big on technology and not that computer savvy so please don't expect a technical analysis here. You're not going to get one. If you want one, there are plenty on this site that offer good technical comparisons, even if you don't really know what their talking about. I'm going to come at this as a layman. I have been through a number of web browsers in the past and have listened to advice. I was initially recommended Internet Explorer but found that it began to not load pages properly and have numerous 'page not found' messages despite the fact that the webpage existed and was fine. Then Firefox which worked better but now has issues with some ...  Read the complete review

I was first introduced to this browser a number of years ago, by a friend who always likes to test software like this out. I instantly took to it because of the way it manages the internet pages and the features that it possesses. It's easy to grasp and simple to understand. It's downloadable from operas website and the installation process is basic and straightforward. Once you've downloaded, that's pretty much all you'll ever need to do as it self manages itself and looks for the latest updates and keeps itself to the latest version. The space required on the hard drive is minimal and the amount of processing power and memory it takes up while it's running ...  Read the complete review

Being a specialist in website design and Internet technologies at Uni, I often have 5 or 6 browsers on my PC at any one time to test my websites under these different browsers. The Opera browser has been around for some time and at its peak was better than Firefox, that there is no doubt about. However, over the years as more names enter into the 'browser wars' Opera has slipped down the ladder in terms of speed and efficiency and has slipped so far, that it is almost as slow as Internet Explorer which is very slow indeed. It is not that Opera haven't made breakthroughs or increased the speed of their browser, it's the fact that their rivals are simply one ...  Read the complete review

A few years ago I'd heard of the Opera browser, and whilst Firefox was crashing and hogging both the RAM and the CPU power it was time to have a look at this now browser. Originally released in 1996 by the cleverly named Opera Software Company the browser was one of the earliest on the market but it wasn't until around 2003 that I'd heard of it. Originally as an arm of Telenor, a large Telecom company in Scandinavia. The browser was originally just for the Microsoft operating system and operated on a trailware basis, which a few years later turned into a multi format system that was paid by adverts. In more recent times the project has had funding from Google. With ...  Read the complete review

**Opera** Before I found Google Chrome I had escaped from the dominant King of Browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer to Firefox and then Opera. Like I said in my Chrome review I had been with Microsoft for years as I didn't know there were competitors or how safe and reliable they were to use. Opera was recommended to me by a techno savvy person as explorer kept crashing on me on both my Vista and xp computer and me and Firefox didn't seem to get along. ** Opera and getting it** When I first heard of Opera I did think it was a silly name and kept reminding me of music and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre Production which gets me ...  Read the complete review