I’ve always enjoyed the UI of Opera’s desktop browser. Computers should work how I expect them to, and not vice versa, and Opera tends to operate just how I think a web browser should. Firefox has been catching up pretty decently as of late, and after trying Google Chrome, I think that’s a good contender, but switching back to Opera always feels like coming back home, no matter how long I’ve been astray.
And now I’m on Opera 9.52. What sent me back to Firefox nearly every time is broken AJAX webapps, like Google Reader. Currently, the only broken site is my employer’s Zimbra AJAX client, which doesn’t phase me too much, as I prefer offline clients for that anyhow.
One of the Shiny! New! features in Opera is “Speed Dial”, where you can have 9 favorites that it loads thumbnails of, where you can go and quick pick one. I can’t possibly do justice to describe it, so look here, and the picture of the browser is shown with Speed Dial, and one can find a description of it down on the page.
I don’t mind the lack of an ad-blocker, and as far as the rest of the functionality, with Firefox, it’s “hunt-down-the extension, and make sure it works with this version”. With Opera, it’s all built-in. Huzzah.
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