Opera Web Browser... eh?

[Mekrel]

You dont have to edit *.ini files to do the same sort of customisation. Its as a simple as you claim firefox to be, its right click, customise, drag/drop.
And again, from the off, without plugins, Opera is easyier to customise. But with plugins, they are about as easy as each other, arguably.

Noo, not for drag and drop of the UI, but for things like a BB menu into input boxes you do (which yet again, isn't as powerful as BB menu for Firefox).

Adblock is built into Opera. Also unlike Firefox there are no unpatched security holes.

Adblock isn't built into Opera, you have to download a filter.ini and point the browser to it and there is a CSS based adblock for Opera too. Yet as already pointed it. It doesn't remove the parent element that the ad was sat in. Leaving pages looking screwed up. For example in mrks screen a few pages back, the forum header looks like it is floating half way down the page as Opera keeps the ads parent element there. Firefox removes this, so the page looks how it should.

Firefox doesn't do adblock built in either, but the extension is more powerful than Opera url filtering and CSS blocking. Opera feels like you have to dismantle it, to get how you want it to.

Firefox is a base which you build upon. Which I prefer.

 

[Lysander]

The really funny thing is that one of the reasons people went to Firefox was that they thought spyware wouldn't target them as it wasn't a MS program. However, I used Firefox for about an hour a few months ago, ran a Spybot and HijackThis check and low and behold - spyware had got in which had been specifically targetted at Firefox. The MS theory wasn't true after all.

 

[Mekrel]

The really funny thing is that one of the reasons people went to Firefox was that they thought spyware wouldn't target them as it wasn't a MS program. However, I used Firefox for about an hour a few months ago, ran a Spybot and HijackThis check and low and behold - spyware had got in which had been specifically targetted at Firefox. The MS theory wasn't true after all.

I don't think that theory really ever existed. People will get spyware no matter what program they use unless they know what they are doing. Used IE6,IE7, Firefox and Opera and remained spyware free for the whole use of them.

Of course there is spyware aimed at Firefox, it's market share has always been growing so is an obvious target. If Opera was in the same position, I'm sure it would be targeted as much too.

 

[mrk]

Firefox is a base which you build upon. Which I prefer.

That is just it right there, that is the key sentence right there! it amazes me sometimes that users of other browsers keep on saying how FF doesn't have much "built in" well the reason so is because the community is so large that everything you need is available as and when you need it and highly customizable to your tastes. You get a browser that is like a barebones PC and you add on what you want how you want.

I believe the firefox slogan was to redefine the web and that is pretty much what it does thanks to the extension community and something no other browser has managed to accomplish and will more than likely never do due to the foothold the ff peeps have over the competition in this regard.