Opera Web Browser
I've switched to Opera v. 9.0 for browsing on the Macintosh. There are some things I don't like about it:- No integration with Keychain;
- Can not drag text out (on OS X 10.3.9: see comments);
- Some glitches in rendering;
- Weird website.
And many things I do:
- Fast;
- Quite customizable (but never enough....);
- "Next link" button;
- Sessions;
- Button to zap page style;
- Menu item to zap colors and get black text on white;
- Can edit source and render changes;
- Button to fit page to window width;
- Need not touch mouse;
- Site-specific preference overrides;
- Can reload a page at specified intervals.
- Fine-grained content blocking.
I had been using Camino, which is excellent, but I had been wishing for a browser with some of these features, especially #8. I like that so much that I'm willing to sacrifice Keychain integration, which is a big one.
Opera has a bunch of other sophisticated features that I've not mentioned because I won't ever use them (integrated mail, irc, rss (I tried it and it sucked), tabs, and more). But here is a recent (June 20, 2006) review that covers these and also delves a bit into Opera's resource usage.
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