Opera - the future was here!

The Opera browser has a small user base on the desktop - just less than 2%! That is because it was not given free, initially, like the other browsers. It was arguably the best browser but the others were free. Something like what happened to Apple Mac and the IBM PC race, long long time ago.....

However, it is a great browser with lots of ability built in. Even though other browsers claim certain capabilities as "firsts", in fact they were already in use in Opera. But no one knew, as hardly anyone used the damn thing!

Tabbed browsing - Firefox thingy ? No. Opera had it long ago. Page zooming, Malware protection, phising protection, pop-up blocking, download manager, BitTorrent client, web feed aggregator, speed dial with thumbnails of the many pages - all started here! Others followed..............

Usability and accessibility features were in it during conception. voice control, page zooming, keyboard shortcuts - the works!
email, chat, news!
By the way who supported CSS first? standard compliance?

But, Firefox catches up! Just like Microsoft did to the Apple OS.

Now, it can match all of the above. It is free it is FOSS. It is the standard browser to develop web sites for!

However Opera is going into the mobile market and the games market (Wii is one!) in a BIG way! There it will live, grow and rule! So the story goes, unless the Mozilla Org destroys the ring of course......