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A couple of days back, i was having coffee with a friend, a developer himself. An ardent anti-microsoft developer, he works primarily on Linux. It was during a conversation, i understood Opera was not a bad browser as i had assumed.

When it comes to just browsing the internet, i was always keen on using a light weight browser. Here is a list of browsers, which you could have heard little about. Other than the standard browsers, internet Explorer, FireFox, flock and safari, i never tried suing any thing else.

A few people have pointed out that

1. Opera is faster or as fast as firefox.

2. You wont miss the plugins, there are enough debugging plugins, analogous to firebug and web developer toolbar.

3. There are two versions for the mobile. Opera mobile and opera mini. The latter version is really light weight. I believe in using multiple versions, preferably the lighter ones while streaming videos.

Looks like, Opera was not advertised properly, you may want to look at opera features.

My friend also pointed out the create search feature of Opera, where it is possible to integrate the search engines and customize it as possible.

So, as long as you are not using Internet Explorer, it is OK.

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