Why Opera Is So Great

Opera is a lightning fast browser that actually can surpass Google Chrome in terms of speed. It is secure, you can sync from it, and if you hover over something and the little box doesn't appear yet, it does quickly in the bottom bar of the browser.

Although Opera keeps its bookmarks in an obscure place (Panels > Bookmarks) instead of many other browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, you can easily navigate between things. For example, Opera Panels have notes, downloads, history, windows, and you can add more panels while deleting some at the same time.

Opera Dragonfly is easy to find; Safari Web Inspector is a thing, and Chrome Web Inspector is a thing; you can't even change the web page without doing a bunch of double clicks. Sure they have Chrome DevTools, but Opera Dragonfly is also versatile.

Firefox's Firebug? Don't even ask; why an add-on? Internet Explorer's Web Inspector; fairly easy to access but takes up the whole screen.

That's JavaScript/HTML debugging; what else? Well, Opera can tell you how much of a page is loaded by an Elements: property that can say something like Elements: 274/371, telling you the page is almost finished. Also, I'd like to throw in Opera Turbo; bypass Wi-Fi and just cache your way through.

Although you could say the address bar doubles as a search bar but they have a search bar already, the address bar can really help when going away from the set search engine. By default when you download Opera, Google is the search engine, but you can change it. But in the address bar, you can type:

'g' for Google
'b' for Bing
'z' for Amazon
'e' for eBay
'd' for DuckDuckGo
'y' for Yahoo! Search
'bl' for Blekko
and 'w' for Wikipedia

to search up certain things. For example, if I wanted to search 'download opera next' on Bing but my search engine was Google, then I would type in the address bar 'b download opera next'.

However, there is a dark side to every good side. Many web developers develop websites that don't support Opera, but they support Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. They either don't know about Opera, or they know it but they think only a few Opera users will visit their websites; wait until I start roving around with Opera.

For example, Codecademy Labs and Code School do not necessarily support Opera; Opera works fine but some features are depleted from Opera.

On Apple's website, Internet Explorer and Opera do not render the page correctly (according to Microsoft's modern.ie) because of the 'transition' property. However, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari render the page just fine.

But web developers need to know about Opera. The desperate Opera Software is simply waiting for users of Opera to come. However, they're not; they're Norwegian, after all.

If you don't mind, I'll spoil the death match winner: ***** *****. Yes, you will see.