Last weeks poll had more votes in it than I can remember ever seeing in a poll. Almost 150 people voted.

While the Official OCC Polls will not always be related, or even have something to do with technology, I wanted to continue this week.

As many know, I am a fan of the Opera web browser. I know we have a few other die hard fans as well, but I wanted to ask the same question I asked about Firefox last week. Have you ever tried Opera? Yes or No. I'm not asking if you still use it, only if you have ever tried it.

Remember, this is not to debate what browser is better. If you wish to do that, please do so in the Browser War threads.
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OCC Polls will run for about a week, and then will be closed.

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Opera 7.60 Preview 1 (Beta - Free)
Opera 7.54 (Final - Free)
Purchase Opera

I tried it, but since I didn't want to have to buy it to get rid of the banner, I stick with firefox. Besides firefox has a cooler name >_>

the banner is stupd.. i tried it.. and it was very slow to me.. firefox is alot faster for me.. but then again.. i hope to be using safari soon but i dont like the idea of a program then the windows floteing around in the program. .reminds me to much of AOL

i love opera.... now using 7.54 ver... (registered)

opera sucks compared to firefox imo.

I tried it, but that was well over a year ago. Personally, I found it to be better than IE, but not good enough to pay for

Opera is simply the best web browser.

I liked some things about it but more or less forgot about it later on. the Adds used to really bother me

Tried it, but didnt like it, used it for about 5 min il give it another try though

I tried Opera and liked it, just got annoyed with the nagging banner. If I were going to pay for a web browser, I would go Opera.

Opera works very well for me as does Firefox, I'm stile evaluating both to see which I will keep, they are both very good browsers.

I have loved Opera from the first time I played with it... I don't get pop-ups I don't want, I use mouse gestures instead of buttons as the norm, and now with the 7.6 beta... Well, just look...



NOTE: I did not modify Opera, Gmail, or anything else in regards to how I got this to work... I just have my browser identify itself as Opera instead of IE (otherwise the buttons don't work)

EDIT: I linked the pic instead because it was too big

I've been using Opera since Friday and its pretty cool. Only because friday I got some kinda bug thats shaking up firefox. Its looks like somebody is shaking my monitor like the refresh rate is going crazy. I tried reinstalling and running all the spyware apps and nothing... So , its Opera for now.

And that weird "shake" only happens when using Firefox?

Does this happen with any other app?

Wow, you might want to scan your computer for viruses and malware. I do know that there is a script that can do that, but it depends on what's running it.

yeah, it only shakes when using firefox, I tried deleting and reinstalling several times. and the whole screen starts bouncing. I've never seen anything like it. And I just reformatted last week, installed the new SAV corporate 9.0. I run spybot hijack this, cws shredder and spywareblaster. plus I do a virus system scan everynight. this is killing me, I've been using firefox for at least a year so for now its opera. I thinking I might have to reformat again...

anyone have any other ideas?

I first tried Opera about 3 years ago and have been using it ever since. I love it!!

i wonder if these people who have tried and dismissed opera know about the mouse gestures. personally thats the main reason i use this browser, and now that im used to them i couldnt go back to not having them.

Opera is a nice alternative to firefox. B)

I tried it, but the banner turned me away from it right away

the banner isnt that bad, but i still use maxthon. opera is my default browser tho. so when i open a window from a link it opens in opera.

i haven't tried it and unless i start to hate firefox, i don't think i will have to try it out.

I've tried it, and almost bought it. The mouse movements/gestures are amazingly well tuned!

never tried it.

use and love it. down with ie!

tried it for about 5 minutes while looking for an IE alternative... then tried Firefox... Firefox won

yup, tried it on your suggestion. to this day I can no longer stand using IE

I have to say Opera is the BEST browser I have ever seen and I have tried many, going back to the original Netscape and IE. The only thing lacking in Opera as in all browsers I have used other than IE6 is the ability to right click and edit your bookmarks/favorites. To make Opera perfect they need to make that change.
Otherwise Opera is flawless as I see it and MUCH faster than IE or Firefox and works well with accelerator software as Firefox does not.

Hi txtiggerr, welcome to the forum. Opera rules.

This is what I use (registered) I like it so far.