Mysterious Opera 7 Preference file

A few weeks ago, I was looking in my Home folder on my iMac and found a file that is named "Opera 7 Preferences.new" listed along with such folders as Documents, Pictures, Library, Music, etc. It is labeled as a document with 0 KB. When I select it, it also says there is no application available to open it (which I haven't tried to do). I discovered that Opera 7 is a browser, but I don't have Opera installed on my computer. I had never even heard of it! When I do a search, that is the only thing in the computer named Opera. Should I just put this file in the trash? Any thoughts on how it could have gotten there? Thank you.
iMac G4   Mac OS X (10.2.x)  

If you d/l firefox it puts in in the user folder, i too have it and was wondering what use it has, i trashed it before but yesterday i noticed a little flash banner on my page wasnt working, so i d/l'ed the flash player again and noticed it had put that prefrences.new file that i had trashed before back in again. Not sure if it has anything to do with it, cant see why it would but its there again.
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