My very First Browser Opera (Opera Web Browser)

Member Name: jonathanhopley

Product:	Opera Web Browser
Date:	11/10/08 (53 review reads)
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Advantages: A very stable Browser

Disadvantages: slow to ope web sites

Opera was my very first alternative we browser had been introduced to it by a work colleague a while ago.Opera is from Norway any is available on Mac,various versions of linux and windows.Opera is also available on mobile phones though have not used the mobile version.

Out of firefox,internet explorer I have found opera to be the most stable.firefox seems to crash alot on web sites with a lot of lash content and I usually use opera for those web sites.

In terms of speed of opening web pages the latest version of opera 9.6 is still not as fast as firefox.

Opera has something called widgets which is equivalent of firefox addons.Recently I tried some of the widgets.There is a cool widget that allows you to translate languages from french to english or any other language it uses google's translation tools.

Opera was also the first to intoduce RSS which sends news straight to your browser.

Opera was also the first to introduce tabbed browsing.

Opera also can open torrent files but I have yet to have it work for me maybe I will ty it again with the current version of opera 9.6.

If it weren't for the slow browsing of pages I would use opera everyday.

The one thing opera can do that firefox can't is export bookmarks.though with a addon called febe you can.
I like to be able to backup my bookmarks without a plugin thats why I like opera's ablity to export bookmarks.They do have an option where you can signup to an account an synchronize all your bookmarks for backup purposes.

Summary: Wish opera would improve the speed at wich they open pages.

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