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2006-02-15
Uh? I use Opera as a webbrowser, I couldn't care less that it also integrates email/torrent, if memory serves those functionalities cost me the grand total of two clicks to disable them (and a little HDD space)..
I've been trying to find where to disable them but I can't seem to find any way for that O_o
People don't use Opera because their marketing|advertising suck, that's all.
I have tried Opera quite a few times just to see if it's worth the praise the fans give it, but I've always ended up using other browsers. Opera feels too bloated for my taste. I want a browser, not a swiss army knife of various tools.
Anyway, I just downloaded Opera 9.5 and it seems somewhat better than the previous releases. Compared to Chrome it's a tad faster on my machine and scrolling pages feels a whole lot more comfortable. For some reason Chrome skips quite badly when scrolling. Chrome on the other hand has less bloated interface (and I absolutely love the fact that it doesn't have menu!!), it looks better and the starting page is IMHO A LOT better than in Opera. I do definitely like it that my bookmarks are there visible, and that it handles updating itself automatically without me having to keep it in order. Opera may have invented the original idea, but Google made it better.