Years after the first browser wars, nowadays there are lots of different browsers available either for desktop computers, smartphones and portable media devices. The internet is growing steadily, while compatibility and accesibility standards are getting more and more important to ensure an equally acceptable browsing experience on every platform.
On the Windows desktop platform there are several different choices: one of those is the Opera browser. I used it for a week or less when version 6 came out, but then switched back to explorer. Only years later I bought Opera, just weeks before version 8 finally went free (lucky me), and stuck with it till now - eagerly waiting for release 10.0!
Yesterday Opera did celebrate its "15 years of innovation" in the browser market. They changed the frontage of their website to a very funny example of how the web was 15 years ago (that is, cluttered with awful gif animations). If the page has been removed, here's a screenshot of it.
So... why use Opera? Here's a couple of reasons of why I think that Opera deserves some attention and how it can enhance your browsing experience.
