Opera 7 for Windows
Opera 7.23 for Microsoft Windows
Anyone that knows me knows that I am a bit of a fanboy for the Opera web broswer. I have gotten everyone I know that will listen to convert (friends, parents, girlfriend) and I would like to think they are better off because of it. There are less vulnerability's than Internet Explorer and it has more functionality than any of the others. It has a built in pop-up blocker, email client, and tabbed windows. It also has a feature called mouse gestures that is just about the most useful tool ever. Even in comparison with Mozilla Firebird, the functionality of the tabbed windows, mouse gestures, and integrated pop-up blocker is much more efficient.
In any event, try it out and give it a whirl. There are 2 different versions: one you pay for and one that is free. The free one simply has a little banner in the top right corner, but its very unobtrusive and you can even specialize it to only show stuff that is interesting to you based on a questionairre. And if you do buy it, its 39 US dollars and absolutely worth it just to support the great job they are doing.
The latest version is version 7 and you can get to the download site through the link below. There are two different packages you can download: one with java and one without. And if you do not run Windows, Opera will run on Linux, Mac, Solaris, OS/2, FreeBSD, QNX and even on your smartphone or PDA.
Anyway, thats enough about that. Download it and give it a whirl!
http://www.opera.com/download/
(This download contains no spyware or bloatware)
) that is written specifically for it. and typically where you see problems the most is with flash, java, and high security websites. so, hopefully it will get better, but as of right now, opera makes up for about 1% of all browsers. they have come a long way, but not far enough . . .
