www.opera.com

I invite you to read this article on the subject of Opera.

http://www.linux.com/feature/139212

I believe mostly that the comments sum up exactly how I feel about the browser and make for the best, I feel, arguments in favor of the Opera browser. Especially those comments addressing the blind fanaticism of open source.

I hope you will read it with an open mind and not see this as an attack on your favorite browser's religion.

Let me see if I understand this: you *seem* to use GNU/Linux, beyond the kernel & GUI, you trust some faceless corp. in telling you they've done their job properly & you should allow them access to your hardware/personal data/net activities (Realplayer)?

The _free_dom that comes in F/OSS, GNU, MIT, BSD, &c., is that *nothing* is hidden from you... combined with the freedom to change anything you don't like.

Really study a standard MS or Apple EULA and tell me what possessed you to look @/run Linux? Why didn't you stay on Windows?

"It's always convenient to make it look like a religious war isn't it? The reality is that picking a martket drug for something as necessary as a web broweser is entirely lame and far from pragmatic. Not considering the long term effects of a decision does not make you pragmatic. Putting blind faith on some random company to keep releasing a browser for free, does NOT make you pragmatic. Should opera remain closed source it will be considered an equivalent to internet explorer, the only difference is that Microsoft didn't make it." --Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 200.105.172.181] on June 21, 2008 01:46 PM

IMO, the best ph browser is Fennec... & it's still in beta.