[David Orriss Jr]

I know this has nothing to do with Eclipse or Java, but I just saw that the Opera Desktop browser is now free…

http://www.opera.com/

I’m a steadfast Firefox fan.. but I have to say Opera 8 is a very fast browser…

[Riyad Kalla]

I used this release for about 2 weeks and really liked it. I did run into some behavior quirks, but as far as features, technology, performance, etc. I was really impressed across the board.

[Kapil Kapre]

Has anyone tried Flock? Their beta I tried wasnt impressive. (http://www.flock.com/)

[Greg]

I used to use opera alot back when my development work machine was linux. Every major feature that is now in IE/Firefox originated on Opera. (tabs,mouse gestures, pop-up blocking, image/ad control). By far its the fastest browser out there. I like firefox too and use it alot, but many times I can have as many as 15 tabs open at a time and firefox just doesn’t scale like opera.

[David Orriss Jr]

Interesting.. how do you do image/ad control in Opera? That’s the *only* thing from FF I’m really missing right now..

[David Orriss Jr]

Nevermind.. I found out how.. 🙂

http://www.operaadfilter.com

[Greg]

I also like how opera allows you to toggle image downloading off for a particular page. I do that often for pages that are really slow when loading 3rd party images that are mainly ads.

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