Okay, well, I mean, it’s always been cool. I’ve been using it for a few days instead of Firefox and it’s nice to see some of the new things in the Opera camp since I had last used it. I like the widgets idea, although I can’t find any widgets that will let me post to my blog. And I miss the del.icio.us buttons/extension that is available for Firefox. I definitely like the feel and organization of Opera. It just feels better and more solid. Like the theme and appearance management. Seriously… having to reboot your web browser to just change a theme or add in an extension… seems… really… silly.
Then again, Opera seems to have some quirks with Gmail (“#” doesn’t delete always?? keybindings stop working
until I click on the page often? textareas don’t linewrap sometimes? in fact, Wordpress’s textarea editor is now
not linewrapping, grr…). *sigh*
Anyway, it’s nice to have a little variety every once in a while. =:)
Oh, and I found a nice little technical comparison of the PSP and the new PSP slim at pspzine. Verdict: seems like there’s no good technical reason for me to be lusting after a new PSP slim, so why am I jonesing for one so badly? =:/
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Opera is technically a much better browser than Firefox is. The downside is that it lacks the support that Firefox is being given now. Let’s face it: the success of Firefox has not made the web care more about standards. What has happened is that now webmasters know they have to support both IE and Firefox instead of only IE.
Monday December 24, 2007 at 7:08 am
opera ftw! 
i have to admit though that I also use firefox for gmail. It’s like running a separate email application. With enough ram inside, it’s affordable and defendable
I love opera. The linewrap problem has something to do with the & nbsp character. Apparently it behaves differently in various browsers. There’s more detailed info somewhere online.
Monday December 24, 2007 at 11:10 am
I have thinking that theming, why FF needs restart (for plugins i understand) but Opera doesn’t? But i just can stand Opera touch for KDE (Qt) environment how there ain’t same luxury as firefox (even it is GTK+). Opera feels more faster, even it is slower on my machine (time taken with stopwatch) so there is something done very good .
Opera UI feels nice, but those buttons and other UI’s on it, just terrible! I was trying to start using Opera mail UI and it just pushed away from whole browser. I dont like idea to have everything integrated to one app. Konqueror is littlebit different because it just use kparts and kparts can be used anywhere….
Monday December 24, 2007 at 11:58 am
Because some of us don’t care about open source zealotry and just want to use the best tool available. Opera is free of charge, its quality is amazing, and is very respectful to Web standards, even so more than Firefox is.
You can choose whatever you want for any reason you like and I suggest you let others do the same and not tell people what they can advocate and what not.
Wednesday December 26, 2007 at 6:03 am
@Amerana:
Um. Heh. I agree with Gordon on this. I’m all for using the best tool for the job. In fact, as I write this, I’ve switched back to Firefox. Why? Because I absolutely could not use Opera to send an e-mail with Gmail. Someone sent me something that I tried to reply to and could not. Absolutely, if 2 tools are equal and one is Open Source, I’ll go with Open Source. But I’m not going to be a martyr and use Open Source solutions that don’t meet my needs.
Wednesday December 26, 2007 at 2:14 pm
The PSP has TV-Out and better battery life, and can charge via USB. I think those 3 reasons are extremely enticing 
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@paul:
Hey!! Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. The TV-out thing, actually, is probably the most enticing thing to me. I keep thinking how cool it would be to be able to watch movies and games on the TV from the PSP. Mind you, I don’t know that I’d actually ever do it, but it’s sexy as heck to think that I could. The USB charge thing is kind of cool, I guess, and from what I’ve read, the battery life actually ends up being the same being that it’s more efficient, but has a smaller battery, right?
Wednesday December 26, 2007 at 7:34 pm
And so I stumble yet another blog that recommends Opera. I think ya guys are tryin’ to tell me something! I’ve made the switch from IE to Firefox, and I’ve loved it… but maybe it’s time for a change. Will try it out soon!
Sunday December 21, 2008 at 10:08 pm
You can choose whatever you want for any reason you like and I suggest you let others do the same and not tell people what they can advocate and what not.
Sunday January 4, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Sony still need to work on the battery life, 6 hours is just not good enough!
Sunday February 1, 2009 at 2:56 am
You mean, GMail has some quirks with Opera, right?
)) I haven’t used Opera since Google released their new UI, so I don’t know if it’s enabled for Opera, but you might want to try to suffix your GMail URL with ?ui=1 and see if the old UI works better — if anything, for Konqueror, that’s the one that works.
Monday December 24, 2007 at 3:05 am