I am a fan of opera 9 browser it is very fast and user-friendly browser. it contain all the developer support.

But I have a doubt abt it, why opera is not using more peoples. I feel it is very fast and user-friendly browser.

Check out the links http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
It shows 1.5% peoples are using opera !! Can you belive it !!!

Whatever I am a fan of Opera 9

The same reason why not many people using Firefox.
Dominating of Microsoft on PC market even thought they dropped support IE for the MAC platform.
But since the Apple moved toward Intel based CPU I assume Microsoft might reconsider it.
I only using it for testing webpages.
It appears Opera has pretty much the same problems as Safari so if it looks ok in Opera it will probably looks the same in Safari.
Personally I don't see any differences using one browser or another. If it would me I would just have one browser for everybody and don't have all this stupid coding problem for specific platform.

Best,DS

Those stats are misleading. Those are stats for visitors of w3schools. Most people that go there are beginners. They mostly use IE. Furthermore, Firefox is a better browser for web development due to its extensions. Opera has about 2% worldwide.

Opera sucks,

opera is a lot better than firefox. i dont why people says opera messes up good html/css. In my opinion, Opera displays things more correctly than firefox. Eg, opera is the only software which actually floats images directly the right when you tell an image to float right. In firefox and ie, they float right and also go down a bit. Also, styled submit buttons appear correctly in opera as they take care of the padding so they are in line with other elements.

All of this isn't a suprise either, since Opera's main developer also helped develop CSS ( I might have to double-check that).

Also, most of the firefox extensions are shitty anyway, apart from the web developer one.

Lastly, Opera has many more features than firefox like session saving, tab previews, main client, widgets, irc support. Its general presentation is much better aswell.

"Opera recently confirmed that Microsoft has not approached the browser maker and there is no active acquistion deal between the two companies currently."

--http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2108

"Try css width=33.33% in opera, Opera will round it to 33%, even IE supports 33.33%"

So what? Who the hell would use percentages like that anyway?

Firefox is a mere improvement on IE.

Changing from Firefox to Opera is like going from a PC to a Mac. They do the same job, but Opera does it much better and it is presented much better. Eg. viewing your history, notes, irc chat etc. It's easier to use.

Opera also has bittorent support, voice support, mouse gestures (which are extremely helpful) and widgets.

Firefox is bloatware, its 19mb. Whereas, Opera is only 12mb, and has a bag load more features.

Opera 9 passes the ACID2 test, Firefox is planning to pass that only in verison three.
Opera is also pretty much the fastest browser. I find Firefox to be a resource hog and unstable, also if you want it to do anything useful (like basic mouse gestures for the love of bob) you have to install more extensions, consequently bloating it and increasing the memory footprint while reducing the performance, go Firefox!

Doesn't seem really funny to me. Why do you think so?

OK, that's fair.
I still claim that Opera is a better browser all around though and that it displays pages more properly, is faster and more useful.

Well, I won't argue against the many features that come out of the box, but I just can't use it as my primary browser with it's CSS and DOM quirks.

Oops, my bad, I guess I was going on an old roomer.

kaiman