Opera has become known as a leader in new technologies for browsing. Many features just now becoming standard in other browsers were found in Opera first. With Opera there are many new features as well as any improved features. Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser on a market today, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft. From a visual point of view Opera looks better than Internet Explorer and Netscape. You can mold Opera to look, feel, and perform nearly any way you like. You can have any menu bar you want or don't want displayed at the top, bottom, left, or right of the screen. Hotlist window will display bookmarks, e-mail, contacts, history, transfers, links and a list of open windows within Opera. The latest version of Opera adheres completely to accepted web standards such as HTML, XML, XHTML, WML, CSS, and DOM. There are so many keyboard shortcuts and customizations available, it can easily change and enhance the way you surf the web. The mouse controls are excellent and seem to give you a lot more 'freedom' for page control. Most programs now allow you to make use of the right mouse button to produce a context-sensitive pop-up menu. Opera also lets you hold the button down and move the mouse around to give instructions: 'Open a New Window', 'Go back to the Previous Page','Reload page'... Status bar has more information in it than Internet Explorer and Netscape. You can see: download speed, number of images on the page, number loaded, percentage loaded so far and more. You can also use opera as an email client or news reader. As an email client it's ok, you can even import your settings from outlook express. It also allows you to set filters and identifies spam.
Opera is lightning fast as well as stable and it looks gorgeous. It’s simply perfect! I truly recommend this software.
Opera is available free of charge with a sponsored advertisement window. A paid version that removes the sponsor advertising is available for $39.00.
