Wandering electrons... but not too far

I'm a huge fan of the New York Times and was interested to see this headline:

Browsers Are a Battleground Once Again

"Cool! thought I, they're going to compare Opera 9.5 beta with Firefox 3!"

Over 1000 words later, can you believe that they did not even mention Opera?!

Not even once.

This was especailly angering when I read:

Early versions of Firefox introduced features like a built-in pop-up blocker to kill ads, and tabbed browsing, which lets users toggle between Web windows.

To your emails Opera defenders! :

[NYT] NEWS DEPARTMENT
To send comments and suggestions (about news coverage only) or to report errors that call for correction, e-mail nytnews@nytimes.com or leave a message at 1-888-NYT-NEWS. To contact a reporter, click on the byline of one of his or her articles to access the reader e-mail form.

Remember though: respect and intelligent aurguments. Opera is the smart people's browser!

Update 07:41 p.m.

Since I put up this post, the New York Times has changed the title of the article. It is now "An Upstart Challenges the Big Web Browsers". Did they see the errors of their ways? I'd like to think so. But even if they've thus avoided the Opera challenge bullet, they've also made me snicker a bit, referring to Firefox as an "upstart".

Hi all,
I Googled "browser reviews" this morning. The first page results included two of interest.
You can help spread the word about Opera at http://www.rateitall.com/t-1067-internet-browsers.aspx . Register with your junk e-mail address and write an opinion on Opera (personnally I gave it 5 stars), and while your at it, why not write an opinion on Firefox (I gave it 3 stars; "ok", and said if you want the best experience possible, try Opera).
Be sure to add a comment saying that Opera is now free and ad free. There are outdated reviews there saying that Opera is not free.
Remember: be respectful, be friendly, be convincing. Leaving a message like "Opera rules, Firefox sucks" won't convince anyone to join us.
And then you might be pleased with this website's browser comparison:
http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/
Ciao,
Wandering