Opera and Firefox on KDE4.2

Question

Hi all,
Firefox has it's quirks with KDE4. Tabs are not rendered correctly and controls (drop-down lists, radio buttons, etc) inside web pages look weird with a a silver casting color. Anyway, not a big deal, but I thought I should install and try opera. Well, it works very well. No rendering problems, and it seems very polished and faster than firefox.
What are your opinions about opera? It seems very robust and I think I will keep it as my default browser.

Answer 1

Opera is cool.. It's by far the most customizable browser out there. You can make it behave like vimperator with a custom keyboard file, you can create own buttons with your own functions, you can completely change its looks, because every panel with all that is on it, can be rearranged the way you want it. In addition to this its bloody fast and the inbuilt RSS reader and Email Client are kinda nice too (tho they need some getting used to, because they have a different paradigm)
It has an inbuilt urlfilter.ini that you can customize to your needs and Firefox' Stylish is nothing but a rip-off of opera's UserCSS. Bugs are normally solved very quickly too.
An example: i made myself a button, that, when i click it, will automatically open google bookmarks page and fill in the values of my last opened webpage...
On the other hand it doesnt have a plugin system. True enough. While most of firefox' extensions are nothing but useless. Who needs a full blown ftp client in the browser? Why embedding all kind of applications in firefox?
The most useful plugins (tabmix, adblock plus, vimperator, fire gestures) are just copies of opera functions. i have to admit tho that adblock plus is easier to handle than opera's urlfilter.ini.
All in all opera is a really nice browser that behaves just the way you set it up. Most ppl just dont get so far, because they dont even try to customize it.