GARBAGE Man I still keep seeing glowing reviews of this browser... I give points to the developers for making this software multiplatform, for persistance & for making it available in a low cost form... BUT... Although I was a big fan of the all in one suite design of Mozilla in the past I question the design approach of Opera now, especially since the advent of the Mactels & Bootcamp the need for Linux & (gack) Windows machines is no longer really necessary anymore. Mozilla take the approach of producing a rendering engine, placing a simple gui on it with a plugin architecture. The community then go nuts making all sorts of plugins that enable _THE_USER_ to easily customise Firefox to do what ever they want. Opera is still in the old approach of all in one everthying including the kitchen sink. This may still suit some users. It makes it harder for the developers to stay on top of maintenance & gives the users flexibilty in how they use the software. The acid test for me is rendering of pages from financial institutions and the like. This is where I still have more problems with Opera than other alternatives. To be fair no browser is perfect but for my uses Opera is still sidelined as a 'less compatible' browser than say Safari, Firefox, Camino on the Mac Platform. No browser is perfect. For all round multi platform use & web page compatibility Firefox is hard to beat. On the Mac platform Safari is very good & the appearance of third party plugins that match simillar FF extensions makes it easy to choose over the non-native Firefox. Camino is is a great native port of Firefox but lacks the incredibly usefull extensions & pace of development is slow. Opera/Omniweb/iCab etc stay in my 'problematic' basket. If you are happy with the Mac platform & don't ever want to use anything else Safari + plugins is great. If you still must use a mixture of machines Firefox + extensions is great.
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