As reported a few days ago by Daniel Goldman (see link below), Columnist Andrew Brown, of The Guardian, wrote a column explaining why he is switching back to Opera from Firefox 3.
With the release of Firefox 3, I mounted a private celebration: I went back to using Opera 9.5 as my main browser. This wasn’t just perversity. Firefox without its add-ons is clearly inferior to Opera. Firefox with enough add-ons to make it really useful is very much slower. And Opera has one advantage over all the competition which is enough to outweigh all its other faults to me.
The advantage?
Best of all, though, is its mail program. I hated it at first, but I missed it for the whole year that I haven’t used it. Opera’s mail is unique - so far as I know - in that it indexes everything without fuss and finds it at once whenever you want it. It doesn’t organise by folders (though it can) but by searches and by tags. Imagine a sort of instantaneous Gmail that works offline as well. All conversations can be automatically threaded and this suits the way I work much better than anything else
If you haven’t tried out Opera, now is a good time to do so. I have tried every browser under the sun, and I do mean every browser (Firefox, Maxthon, Orca, Safari, IE, Avant, K-Meleon, Smart, and on and on), but I keep coming back to Opera. The built-in email program, widgets, speed dial, it’s fast speed – all of these and many more features make Opera the browser to use. You can download it by going here.
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Original article: Opera Watch: Guardian: Forget Firefox - I???m going back to Opera for browsing and email by Daniel Goldman on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:40:09 GMT
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