Ted

Fast facts

• Music I listen to:Lots of different kinds.

Why I choose the Opera browser

It is much better than MSIE, and personally I like it better than Firefox.

MSIE allows mutliple windows and multiple tabbed pages that you can go forward and back to, with arrow buttons; you can see the history of what pages have been in each tab; and you can use the awkward Windows taskbar to click on different windows, each with multiple tabs, but that is about it. In contrast, with Opera you can have multiple windows, each with multiple tabbed pages, and each of those tabbed pages can have a history of multiple forward and backward pages which you can see listed. In Opera, each time you go forward or backward with the arrows, or click a tab, the new page is available Instantly, unlike MSIE, which seems to have to slowly reload each page or something, when you go forward and backward with the arrows. Plus in Opera you can open a Windows panel or page that lists everything that is "currently" in each of the tabs, in each of the windows, and allows you to instantly get to any tabbed page. You don't have to rely on the awkward MS taskbar to get to different windows. Plus with Opera now you can consolidate groups of tabs into "tab stacks." Wow! OK, after Opera had it for 5 years, MSIE finally added multiple windows with multiple tabs. But Opera's version is still way more customizable. For example with Opera you can drag and drop the tabs in any order you want, or on any window. You can put the tab bar on top, bottom, left, or right. You can easily change the size. By adjusting the skin, you can change the tab text and background color: either the normal color, or the color that tells you if you have viewed it yet, or whether it has finished loading or not.



Opera has way better bookmarks organization than MSIE. The Quick Find feature, in bookmarks, is a lifesaver. MSIE doesn't have anything at all like it. With MSIE, if you have lots of bookmarks - good look finding the one you want - it won't even order them alphabetically for you from within Internet Explorer. To see them listed alphabetically you have to find the favorites folder in Windows Explorer.



With Opera you can completely customize the menu, and the keyboard, easily, by editing text. You can customize toolbars, and buttons on the toolbars, to a tremendous degree. You can customize how the buttons look, and what the buttons do, and what the text next to them says; you can add new buttons. It is just a matter of editing the text in an toolbar.ini file, or editing a skin.ini file, and selecting the *.png image files you want to be used for each button.