Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jun 2008 11:07 UTC
Linux.com has a review of Opera 9.5, which also includes various benchmarks for Opera, Firefox, Safari, and IE on both Windows and Linux. Linuxcom concludes: "Opera 9.5 is full to the brim with features and improvements and highly customizable. By rolling in apps such as the mail client and IRC chat application, and integrating them into a user's browsing experience, Opera 9.5 is a worthy challenger to Firefox 3. It surely has enough power and features to make it my favorite browser. If only it were free software and open source!"
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2005-11-16
Nice to see the review mention Opera's sidebar. In my opinion it's easily one of the best things about Opera.
I find the Links and Windows panels particularly useful, yet they're features that often get ignored.
You can lock the Links panel on a site listing links to documents, allowing it to be used as a convenient index. The Links panel also makes it really quick and easy to download a bunch of split files with a couple of clicks.
The Windows panel has totally replaced the tab toolbar in my copy of Opera. It can display a much larger number of pages than a single line tab bar, without cutting of the page titles. It displays all the pages open in all windows, allowing them to be easily dragged between windows. It allows multiple pages to be selected and reloaded or closed together. It can also be filtered with a keyword, so that it only displays particular pages.
Then there's Opera's MDI window management, allowing pages to be placed side by side in one windows. It also allows popup windows to open at their correct size within a browser window. This opens up all kinds of browsing options that otherwise aren't possible. So much more versatile and powerful than tabs!
That kind of practical improvement to my browsing experience is much more important to me than issues of closed vs open source.