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Opera is a classy browser. It's fast, efficient, and has a lovely interface. I love it and I really wish it was more popular.

Happy Birthday Opera! Here's hoping you get more love this year - you deserve it! http://www.opera.com/portal/15/

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Are you using Opera on a PC, Linuxbox or Mac?

I've use Opera recently on my Mac and find it nowhere close to Safari or Firefox in terms of elegance and feature set. Gestures won't work via the trackpad and Google Docs won't load. Clunky.

I use it on my mbp. I agree the feature set is inferior, but its the only browser that can handle the 50+ tabs i like to have open at once. ff3 eats up cpu and overheats things.

hmm... I usually have 300+ tabs open (6-8 windows, 2-3 processes) with FF3 with no slowdown... (XP/C2D/4G)

I use it on a PC. I can't speak for the Mac but it works beautifully on a my WinXP box.

Plus I am heavily keyboard driven, and Opera is the only browser I know that can be used without the mouse (at all!). Navigating links is especially cool!

I was use it when I'm away from the laptop charger. All other browsers drain it out in less than an hour. With Opera I can squeeze a good 4 hours out of it. (I also use a lightweight win32 editor called editeur that does syntax highlighting instead of emacs for all my "write first, see it run later" type code.)

I use it on Linux, Windows, and my Blackberry, actually. I simply love it, though there are the occasional rough spots - like Google Docs or Gmail not loading. Thankfully, I don't make extensive use of them anyhow, so I'm solid.

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