Opera has been my favourite since last 1 year (sorry FireFox 2 !! I don't miss you much !!) and the bonding strengthens when last night I discovered the all new Opera 9.50
Let me tell you my encounters with difference browsers.
I started using IE, it was not love at first sight, well i was a kid then !!! any ways thanks bill uncle for giving us all buggy IE to cope up with all popup (I some time hit a porno web site and with in seconds my Win95 got a restart, just like that.)
When I matured, my taste for browser also matured and i found MyIE2, now called Maxthon. it's been a long affair with that great piece of software, it saved me lot of time, and got me some credit also when I presented my MD of the company to the all new TABBED Browsing !! It was fun !!
Then I saw faster and All new firefox, well it was irresistible and must try. eventually we have been together since firefox 2.x; I left it because I was fed up with slowness and memory it required, I had to kill it after every 30-45 min of browsing. It was painful.
Then came the almighty opera, it was not so smooth ride at first, but it happens to be like that with new gal/bike/browser I suppose !! since then it's been a great joyride with opera.
Firefox 3 created a much hype and blogs and tech pundits are going ga ga over it. But in my opinion opera is the ultimate choice for the best browsing experience.
One has to see it to believe it. Give it a try, you wont be disappointed !!