Another great web browser, just not quite as good as firefox (Opera Web Browser)

Member Name: stuff10

Product:	Opera Web Browser
Date:	19/05/09 (6 review reads)
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Advantages: Quick to load, good password handling

Disadvantages: Not as customisable as Firefox

Opera is another great web browser which is sadly under-used by the hordes of Internet Explorer users (people who don't know and better).

Opera is very much at the forefront of web browser technology and is responsible for a lot of the new features that are replicated in other browsers. Common features such as tabbed browsing which Opera invented first are now available in all other modern browsers.

Likewise Google Chrome's idea of showing you your most-visited sites is directly taken from Opera's nifty Speed Dial feature.

For general browsing, Opera is a great program to use - I particularly like the way it handles passwords (one advantage over Firefox). Opera will store your passwords for certain sites as a drop-down list whereas Firefox will ask you to type them in - this makes it much easier for me to access sites such as 123 Reg, where I have multiple accounts.

I personally use Firefox as my main web browser and not Opera. Why do I do this? Well, although I like Opera it's just not as customisable for me as Firefox is. There's certain Firefox extensions that help me out in my job as a web developer and these just aren't available in Opera.

Summary: Great browser, but there's better out there

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