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Give Opera A Chance

November 20, 2007
Pretty much everybody knows that I'm a big proponent of Firefox, the extensions just make it the best browser out there. Having that said, I decided to give Opera a second try. I tried it once a year or two ago and it wasn't very feature packed and didn't support add ons. This time around was (is) a much better experience! Pretty much any extension you love from Firefox (or you wish Firefox could have) is actually built right into Opera.

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• RSS support. An awesome reader in fact.
 • Ad blocking with selective blocking capabilities.
• Advanced pop-up blocker that only blocks unwanted pop-ups.
• Widgets like on iGoogle. This is an AMAZING feature! I have my Pandora player, weather, Google Maps!!!, etc... these can be accessed anytime, not just from a webpage.
• Mouse gestures
• Notes for marking up webpages for future review
• Smart auto-fill
• Skin flexibility
• Downloader that works like DownThemAll!
• Mail and chat built in. Which is awesome because you can sync your Opera browsers on multiple computers so your mail and chat goes with you wherever you go!

The more I use Opera the more I like it, it's getting dangerously close to making me switch it over as my default browser, which is a big deal.

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