Get the Facts on Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer

Full integration of browser, mail, newsgroups, newsfeeds, and chat .... I love it!

Full-blown and customizable mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, voice, spatial navigation, lightning quick back/forward browsing history navigation .... I love it!

Opera's integration of features/functions has me sold. Firefox is okay, but requires too many 3rd party extensions for my liking and certainly is a browser only which cannot integrate so much functionality nearly as brilliantly as Firefox.

For example, my contact properties allow me to enter chat nicknames. When in chat, that person's unique contact image appears in the chat panel when he is online ... neat!

While chatting, I can easily send an email to one of my contacts in the chatroom ... neat!

While browsing, I can easily select a group of text and right-click and send via email to any of my contacts ... neat!

While browsing (if I need to give my neck and shoulders and rear-end a break) but am interested in reading one final article, I can simply select the text and have the voice read the article to me after I turn up the volume and take a walk around the house---neat!

While chatting, I need to spell-check my new big word ... simple with Opera, and I want to tell somebody in the chatroom about my new favorite bookmark. Simply drag the bookmark over to the chatroom posting area ... great stuff!

Ah, I just got a great newsfeed article notice ... my friend would love to read this. I know what I'll do, I'll press 'F' and forward it to him. Excellent!

IE is just way behind the Opera curve ... and Firefox is trying to catch up, but seems to take a different philosophy with regard to features and functionality that I find undesirable (relying on 3rd parties for way too many features) and without the integrated approach.

Suffice to say, the merging together of chat, browser, mail, news, and contacts makes Opera uniquely gifted and my favorite!