[WEB4LIB] Re: here we go again...'Critical' security flaw threatens IE

[Thomas Dowling]

Thomas Bennett wrote:
> I'm not knocking other good browsers but one that doesn't get the
> attention I think it deserves is Opera...
> 

> Try it, its FREE.

Er, the adware version is free.  The registered version is $39.  It's an 
important difference for a lot of people.

I've been a registered version for years, but find myself using Opera 
less and less.  I don't think it's technically ahead of Mozilla/Firefox 
any more, and I don't think it really has a performance advantage to 
speak of.  YMMV of course, depending on hardware.  Opera is full of 
clever ideas, but they're packed in around some firmly set 
idiosyncracies that are just barely enough to drive some number of users 
away.  For someone migrating from IE, for example, a lot of little 
things will just seem weird.


Ultimately, the benefit to having multiple viable browsers (definitely 
including Opera) is that they can all benefit from each other's good 
ideas.  So Opera and Mozilla can build off each other's creativity and 
maybe get us caught up to where we should have been years ago in terms 
of browser usefulness.


-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu