News Comment All comments on news story: Opera to give away browser in bid to boost market share It's a reply to comment: Great browser! by: sc3252  This is truly a great browser and anyone who has not used opera has no reason not to try it. After 24 hours I am still using it. by: Sharkscott  As a longtime Netscape/Mozilla Suite/Firebird/Firefox user and supporter, I have stayed away from using Opera because of the banner ads. I did not want to have to put up with the very thing I wanted less of, just to get a "better experience". I never had a problem with anything else about Opera, they were honest about why the free version had banner ads, I just chose not to use it. I downloaded it yesterday and being that I did not have any experience to draw from I have given it complete run-through, as much as I know how anyway:) I must say that except for the different design and "way they do things" like settings and all that, I like it. It renders pages faster than Firefox without any "tune-ups" which I know how to do on my system. It is roughly neck and neck with Firefox in speed with the "tune-ups". I can see where Opera is ahead of Firefox with some features and where it is not ahead. I think that it will be good for Opera and Firefox, and not good for I.E. Firefox and Opera are ultimately about making the Internet safer and more in the control of the user on it. Which is something Microsoft does not want and knows nothing about. I do have to say that as a supporter of the Mozilla Foundation I do not see Opera and Firefox fighting each other for users. The slow awakening of all who use the Internet to the outright dangers of using I.E. make the idea of Firefox and Opera duking it out for users pointless.
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