opera fukken rules, firecocks just copied it, and personally i don't care about it being closed source, it might be security by obscurity but it's still security
i see firecocks at uni, on all the computers, it updates often, prolly bugs, security vulns, my opera almost never updates and i almost never have to worry about a vuln
SURE I MIGHT BE SHORT SIGHTED, ANYTHING WIDELY USED SUFFERS FROM ATTACKS, but for the moment, i'm happy using opera and that's as good of an argument as any to use it
though my first reason for the switch was that firecocks couldn't run well on my crappy laptop with bsd, gtk was slow, it looked crappy, i'm not even kidding here, i mean i've used firecocks since it was called phoenix, and before that mozilla, but now that i've used opera for a few years and i go back to firecocks, it feels like i'm back on modem, all the fonts look ugli, the gui is still slow as hell
also for longer periods of use firecocks just crashes on me, opera never, EVER crashes, and if it does, it just resumes where it left of, and yes opera had that feature long before firecocks
i used to be a firecocks advocate but now i'm all about opera baby, i'm the first to admit that if you want many plugins, you better go with firecocks, but i don't miss anything in opera, it has the adblocking, it has the javascript and error consoles, it has the download manager, most of the more widely used plugins in firecocks are features opera has builtin, usually stuff it had BEFORE firecocks
also i love that i can remove the tabbar, it takes some practice but you can use the keyboard for everything and all i have showing is the urlbar and the standard filemenu, i still use tabs, as easy as anyone else, but i don't need the tabbar in opera, i can even remove the urlbar with ctrl+f8
also like i mentioned before i was surprised at how everything looked much better in opera, fonts mainly
i'm about to get a macbook now though, so i'll finally have something to replace my crappy old bsd laptop, i'll give opera a shot on the mac but i've heard it has problems and i don't mind having to learn safari, it sounds like it's a worthy replacement for opera