Opera has always bugged me. They claim to be the fastest browser (which they weren’t when Firefox came out) and you had to pay for them. God! what a stupid business model. Hmm, let’s see. I get IE for free (never mind now bad it is), I get Netscape for free, I get Firefox for free, I get Safari for free (on the mac), I get Avantbrowser for free, I get Maxthon for free, I getOff by One for free, as well as a whole hose of others.

So why would I pay for Opera? The answer is I didn’t. Their free version, with banner ads, um yeah… made me want to puke a little.

Finally Opera got smart. Freedom.