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I downloaded it and am using it to post this... it's much shinier than Firefox. Which is better? -- » Sir Savethemooses Grand Commanding Officer ... holla atcha boy» 17:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I had Opera for awhile, some prefer it... I didn't like it all that much. It screws with the fonts and formatting even more than FirFox, and it doesn't have all the cool features. I much prefer FireFox over anything else I've tried.   t o m p k i n s  blah. ﺞوﻦ וףה ՃՄ ண்ஸ ފއހ วอฏม +տ trade websites 17:42, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I used Opera a few times and wasn't terribly impressed. Besides, I have way too many Firefox extensions that make my life much easier to be easily pursuaded by another browser. --Sir gwax (talk) 19:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Opera is supposed to match the WC3's standards either exactly or as closely as human (computerly?) possible. That means that due to both Internut Exploder's popularity, and it's inability to comply with standards, there are going to be a lot pages that are optimised for IE that look crappier in anything else.

There is not a whole lot that can be done about that, but if you want to write to various webmasters and tell them to make their page look right in Opera, feel free. Otherwise, stick with what you prefer. --Xoid 23:26, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Opera ain't anything of the sort - half the people working there invented the standards, but Opera itself famously cuts corners in implementing them to run at its famous high speed - David Gerard 12:13, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

The real answer is: whatever feels good to use for you, and isn't IE. Anyone still voluntarily using IE at this late stage of the game fully deserves to have their computer bent over and brutally sodomised by every goddamn piece of spyware on the face of the planet - David Gerard 12:13, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I second that. And I love Firefox and its customizability through extensions. ~ T. (talk) 13:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I really like it when I want some feature that isn't in Firefox and I go to Google, search for [some feature] firefox extension and bam, there it is (or at least a greasemonkey script that does what I want). --Sir gwax (talk) 18:30, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I adore Opera. It's fast, it's clean, and for the most part it works perfectly. If you can go without having a thousand extra extensions (and I can), it's by far the best browser I've ever used. I only use Firefox these days when a page doesn't load correctly in Opera. --—rc (t) 19:30, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

For me, it's simple: Opera can be a thousand times better than Firefox (I think Firefox is better, though), but until it becomes free software like Firefox, I won't use it. And by the way, Firefox currently supports more open standards than Opera (according to Wikipedia). - Sikon 18:33, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

While not open source, Opera is available for download and use for free. I tried Opera, but Firefox has better CSS support, I found Opera to break on some CSS out there and it loses the colors. Plus Firefox has nifty extnsions and now an automatic update with version 1.5, I think 1.502 came out recently. --2nd_Lt Orion Blastar (talk) 20:31, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Opera is Free Software 142.150.204.170 16:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I use Avant. It interprets scripts and such in the same way as IE, but it doesn't suck. To each his own with browser tastes. Quite frankly, I HATE people going "HAY GET FF ITS SO MCUH BTTER TAHN ANI OTER BROWSER. OR AT LEEST IE, SINC I DONT BELEIV TAHT ANI OTER BROWSERS TAHT ARENT FF OR IE ECKSIST AND IF U DONT USE FF U SUK LOLOLOL." Some people just plain don't like FF. --User:Nintendorulez 18:53, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Dillo is the one true GUI browser, cause Real Men don't need no CSS or javascript or frames or tabs or plugins. True Real Men use telnet and look at the source files and figure out what the site looks like.

Young'ins with your fancy builtin SSL. Back in my day, we did the encryption/dencryption by hand.--(~Sir)Nuke || Talk v MUN v Not An Admin v Completely Unimportant 22:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Back when I was young, hands hadn't been invented yet... but you tell the kids that these days... --Carlb 23:10, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

First, the abbreviation for Firefox is Fx. Second, Avant, Maxthon etc. use the IE engine and share its vulnerabilities and standards-incompliance. - Sikon 00:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)