User: skittlemon

opera first, firefox as backup

On: Which is Better, Firefox or Opera?

I've been using opera for 5 years and i've tried it on windows, mac and linux.
I only use firefox on sites that don't support opera -- aka sites that opera doesn't support ;) -- and i'll continue to use opera because have continually raised the browsing bar - first browser to have (smart) popup-blocking, opening pages in a background tab, zooming a page in or out, to include mouse gestures, a configurable google bar/other search engine bar, voice navigating(Win only) and built-in TTS for reading your web pages to you(Win only).
The mouse mappings are my favourite things about opera, you can quickly switch between tabs in your MRU list using the right mouse+scroll wheel and open/reload/close tabs using mouse gestures.

You can get most of these things in firefox or IE, but you have to install plugins or external programs, but it turns me off to have to set that up on every machine i ever use. Oh, and uhh, i have no trouble with ads under any browser because i block them at the system level with a nice, fat hosts file.

Uhh so, yeah, that's why i suggest you try opera (and get yourself a fat hosts file)