Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Dec 2006 18:51 UTC, submitted by abdavidson
Opera 9.10 has been released with the big new thing being protection against phishing. "Opera Software today introduced real-time Fraud Protection in its Web browser. Fraud Protection includes technology from GeoTrust and PhishTank, a collaborative clearing house for data and information about phishing on the Internet. Fraud Protection is available in Opera 9.1, the newest version of Opera's Web browser."
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Adblock List (007B): urlfilter.ini (For Opera)
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http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/
this will block all common ads just like Adblock for Firefox.
Opera also has Quick Preferences (Tools > Quick Preferences, or simply F12), which allow you to disable plug-ins (which would disable ALL plug-insn like auto-loading videos, flash, etc) on-the-fly. Then enabling them again when you want them. Integrated on-the-fly image toggling, too.
Simple, effective.
No unnecessary distractions when you want them gone. Turn them back on when you want them.
Opera actually has non-buggy printing that doesn't cut off half of what you intend to print - unlike Firefox. I found out the hard way after printing directions from http://www.whereis.com where most of the time the complete directions wouldn't be printed. Plenty of other sites have Firefox printing problems, too. Printing in Firefox is simply a very big weakness of the browser.
Opera also passes Acid2
http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/
...and is the only modern browser that can run acceptably alongside IE on Windows 98 and older machines - in other words, it's coded exceedingly well.
My hat goes off to Opera for creating a fantastic responsive browser that makes the web enjoyable (Windows version, at least...not sure about others).