I actually haven’t had that good of an experience using Opera in Linux. It’s decent, but it never really felt like it outperformed Firefox and flash in Opera never really performs as well as you would think, with certain flash objects not even working. I’m hoping that will change in this version because I would really like to have a good Firefox alternative and I haven’t quite found one good enough for me.

I have only recently started playing with other browsers. I used IE forever (shame on me), and have been on FF for a little over a year. I like Opera, but it seems to freeze on me more than any other browser. After a page loads, the programs seems to ‘think’ for a while, and I have to hit the stop button before I can use the page. I’ll click in this text box, for example, and start typing, but realize that nothing is happening until I stop the loading, and try typing again. After a page loads, occasionally the links won’t work, and I’ll have to re-load the page. The scroll wheel randomly doesn’t work, and clicking on a blank portion of the page doesn’t return scroll function until I stop or reload the page. I’m having the same problem on a Win7 and on a vista PC. What gives? This is the first time that Rich’s tech advice seems to be causing headaches, so I think I’m doing something wrong. On another note, if I go to Bing maps, it tells me that some functionality will not work with opera, then I have to click again to ‘go to the site anyways’. The site works fine as far as I can tell with Opera, but I have to do this every time. At the advice of the most knowledgeable, I want to keep using Opera, but I am on my way to using Lunascape or Safari if I can’t make this work right. Any advice?