Comments on: Opera 9.64 Web Browser

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:33:51 +0000

Hey, I really enjoy this article! I have come across it several time in the past week or so while surfin search engines and I stop and read this everytime which says a lot. when you said you were not overly impressed with Safari 4, I thought to myself, “Wait, is this me who wrote this article?” But of course, all credit goes to you. I have never been more happy with internet browsers as I am with Opera today. I was happy with Netscape when I kicked AOL to the curb back in 1997. But that was short lived and I was forced to settle with MSN browser, then Earthlink, then I.E., followed by Safari. I tested Opera a year ago against Firefox, but I never took advantage of all the cool extras you can do and how user friendly this was. I guess you could say that Firefox resembled Safari and that’s why I picked Firefox. But I never denied that Opera was a great browser. Then this week, I have re-installed Opera, Browsed all the skins & picked my best ones, took in a few great widgets, turned on Mouse gestures, and made Speed Dial my home page. I’m just not looking back anymore. Opera is the first and only place I use to watch streaming movies and all things on web. There are a lot of good web browsers competing and the choice may not be too easy. But I finally gave Opera the chance they so long-time and richly deserved and proud of that. I hope they stay strong and keep doing what they do best! Thanks – looking forward to Opera 10 someday.

By: eli

eli — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:25:43 +0000

I agree that Opera is a terrific browser, and very much a competitor for anyone’s sole browser. The only problem are those certain sites that require IE. Bah! Opera also runs well on dial-up. Another nice feature it has is the Block Content option. You can use this to block a certain image, video, or an ad from being loaded & displayed. This REALLY makes browsing more enjoyable. Visit an annoying site once, block the content you don’t want to see. The next time you visit it, it won’t display the junk you don’t want to see. I love Opera

By: OperaFan

OperaFan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:50:28 +0000

Opera does have a private browsing mode, although it is not well known and only accessible through the command line argument “-private”.
This option is described as “private browsing mode. All history and data is deleted on exit”.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:48:34 +0000

Opera has *always* been the best-overall, most advanced browser. Some just don’t like it because it’s not open-source.

By: Charles Kane

Charles Kane — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:32:36 +0000

Opera is fast, small, looks good, is sort of traditional (therefore easy to use), has a lot of good tho unobtrusive options – in many ways it is the equal of firefox (barring add-ons). Chrome is fast but is troubled when handling a lot of tabs and still feels a bit beta-ish. IE is a dogs breakfast, has good ideas but just doesn’t work very well – memory probs, slow loading pages, bad with a lot of tabs.
But altho I like – even admire Opera (I used it when it was sporting tabs and fitted on a floppy about 14-15 years ago) I just can’t Love it.
But I strongly recommend it to all IE users – its a much better app than IExplore.