Opera is the music of Internet

I received today this link in the last Google Alert package: Browsing the browsers

"Unlike the Mozilla twins, Opera makes you look at paid advertising banners. They're not obtrusive and don't affect performance, but you can buy an ad-free version for $39. Opera 7.54 is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. The basic Windows download is just 3.4MB, though adding Java brings it up to 16.2MB." November 8, 2004 (Computerworld)

The nice old Google Adds for Opera...

I'm just read the post of Opera Watch about benefits and "superiority" of Opera. This is a very spectacular visualizing of these benefits.

It I have could say myself...!

I always download the Weekly builds, because generally they have new features, and are errors patched. But sometimes I have problems with install, so I figured out a way of freshening, that solves the next problems:

- Small size of the main Opera directory
- Not to lose settings because of accidental deleting
- I can use one setting collection for more instances of Opera

This requires, that the essential and big files are out of the freshened directory. So I copy my files to any "secure" place (e.g. other partition), and I apply my settings to the new places:

Mail: opera:config\#Mail|MailRootDirectory
General block content file (filter.ini): opera:config\#Network|URLFilterFile
Cache directories:
opera:config\#UserPrefs|CacheDirectory4
opera:config\#UserPrefs|OperatorCacheDirectory4
opera:config\#UserPrefs|TemporaryDownloadDirectory
Plugins: opera:config\#UserPrefs|PluginPath
User Javascript: opera:config\#UserPrefs|UserJavaScriptFile
Language file: opera:config\#UserPrefs|LanguageFile
Toolbar file: opera:config\#UserPrefs|ToolbarConfiguration
shortcuts: opera:config\#UserPrefs|KeyboardConfiguration

I install any new build this way:
- Zipped save from main directory
- Installing the new version in the main directory

Since the big files are out of the saved directory, so the zipped archive has a small size, and - if necessary - I can make a clean install, and I can set my settings (above) in a minute with this options. Of course, some settings requires further tuning, but I haven't to be afraid of losing of my important data, if the freshening has failure.

(I could save my widgets, too, and drag-and-drop in group, but this way some widget would lose its cookies (e.g. SimAquarium).)

The hungarian CHIP magazine (2007.02) tested Opera 9 as the most secure browser of the Windows platform. Congratulation!

1. Opera 9
2. Firefox 2.0
3. MS Internet Explorer 7

I've filled a survey about "Digital lifestyle".

What browser do you use for Internet?

Result:
Internet Explorer 58%
Firefox 30%
Opera 7%

I can see, that I'm not the only Opera-user in Hungary!