A little bit about everything...

Well, as a newbie this seems like the natural starting post.
As a long time lover of all-in-one (e-mail + browser) applications, such as netscape and then mozilla, which eventually evolved (or so they claim to) into Seamonkey, I have been desperatly seeking (no, not Susan) for a stable ever evolving all-in-one application.
Several bugs and crashes forced me to abandon Mozila's all-in-one application, and since they seem to have concentrated all their effort (and marketing) into firefox, I had to settle for two applications, namely thunderbird and firefox. I am still quite disappointed that they simply seem to have forgotten about their own other projects...
I have known about the existence of Opera for a few years, but my first run of it was somewhat traumatic... It was the very first time I encountered a gmail-like interface to organize my e-mails.
It took me gmail (obviously) to get used to it... Afterall who on earth could turn down 1GB email storage??? Well, at the time this seemed quite amazing, but google keeps growing and growing, doesn't it?
That's why in the end I turned to Opera. Currently I am running 3 applications simultaneously as I have not yet abandoned firefox and thunderbird. This should take a little longer.
Opera lacks some of firefox features I have grown to like, such as add-ons (I love eye-candy, although I don't own a mac) and I hope they will be included in future releases.
One thing surprised me, though. The My Opera comunity. I think firefox lacks this kind of relationship with the users and for this I can do no more than to congratulate Opera's team.
That's all folks!