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"If Opera had a true Adblock equivilent (regex capable would be nice) it would be enough for me to switch."

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/BlockAdvertisements

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/OperaAdblock

"Even better if it had the extensibility Firefox does"

"If Opera had a true Adblock equivilent (regex capable would be nice) it would be enough for me to switch."

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/BlockAdvertisements

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/OperaAdblock

"Even better if it had the extensibility Firefox does"

"here's not really a simplistic way to block ads using Opera"

"here's not really a simplistic way to block ads using Opera"

Opera does not have adblock or any of the "cool but marginally useful" things like context-menu web search

"Who cares to download software with big ad banners?"

"And they don't have an ad blocker :( The guy who wrote that for them, got sued for it."

If this were the case, then how, pray tell, are these guys getting away with creating ad blockers for Opera?

"Its only a mater of time before Opera and Tetzchner drowns."

Sorry, I know... Don't feed the trolls... But if one lets the trolls post without anyone correcting them, people might believe their drivel.

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/BlockAdvertisements

I found another Link listing the Advantages of Opera in the Opera7 Wiki:
http://nontroppo.org/wiki/WhyOpera

If the dropdown menu is bugging you, you can make your own button which just switches between author/user mode: Opera button maker.

Just add two actions as Cycle (>), from Select author mode to Select user mode, with the User mode icon, like so: "opera:/button/Select author mode > Select user mode, , , User mode".

You may also like to look at my.opera's toolbar setups section.. and I heartily recommend Minimalist Native in the skins section :)

You might want to look at:

Opera CSS Issues

"more feature-packed browser that's on the cutting edge".
Yeah, cutting egde. Being the LAST browser to implement bidi support, and even now they don't get it close to right on anything but the Widnows version (I am talking about 7.53 version on both Linux and MacOSX).
http://nontroppo.org/wiki/OperaAndBiDiLanguages

Sorry, but I refuse to use a browser that displays any Hebrew/Arabic text that appears in a form widget- be it a drop down menu or the text I write in a text area- reversed, making it impossible for me to read what I am writing (and guess what are the options presented to me in the drop down menus).

Not to mention the email client and the IRC client which suffer from the same problem which makes it unusable.

It is ironic, that a non-US browser is so weak when it comes to i18n features. It is sad that Opera is the one that came out with a press release about how great they are for Hebrew-
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/06/2002 0620.dml THat was over two years ago, and they still don't get it right.

I used to like Opera very much, back in Opera 4 days. But after many years, many versions, many bug reports submitted and many unfullfiled promises, I just moved on to FOSS browsers.

At least there, I can search bugzilla and see what is going on with my bug reports, and not be forced to download the next version in the hope that maybe maybe they fixed it now.

Are you sure that Mozilla Firebird has a smaller disk and RAM footprint and draws pages more quickly than Opera 7? What does this pro-Opera page get wrong?

"by a very long shot, the most standards-compliant browser in existence"? Sorry, but this is not entirely true. While it might support more standards, it does not actually have vastly better standards support compared to Opera when it comes so standards they both support.

How often do you try to write standards-compliant Web pages? Until version 7, Opera's support for the DOM sucked a lot. To this day it fails on a number of CSS test suites that Mozilla handles with aplomb.

And not supporting more standards is not as small a thing as you seem to think. As an example, ever tried making a mathematical or scientific page with MathML, then tried doing it without MathML? Opera not supporting this really does suck, for those of us to whom it's important. The fact that Mozilla does have support makes it more than a little bit better, in my view at least.

And Opera is available for BeOS and OS/2 actually.

You didn't read what I said -- ever tried using these? The latest Opera for BeOS is version 3, and the company has dropped support for the operating system. Mozilla for BeOS is a current version, and there are pseudo-nightly builds available. The story is similar for OS/2.

As for Opera's "clean, intuitive" interface (another claim from your page), you might check out Matthew Thomas' claim that Opera is the only UI worse than Mozilla's.