Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

Opera was the most suited browser for my eeePC (1gb ram, Atom in ecomode most of the time). I originally planed to use Chrome as I thought it was lighter and faster, but quickly found out that Opera fared much better globally.

Beyond the numbers, Chrome seemed to perform worse as my number of tabs growed. I had freezes and the pages didn't scroll smoothly. I don't have such problems with Opera.

I have over a thousand of synchronized bookmarks, 4 email accounts set-up, in the end it just saves me a ton of ressources as I don't have to open anything else for my needs.

Chrome is perfect as the secondary browser who doesn't save sessions, the launch is blazing fast.

I've found Opera to be fairly lightweight. It handles large numbers of tabs with (a bit) less memory usage than Chrome. Admittedly, this is because it's not a multi-process browser. It does mean that it functions well on machines with limited resources.

Spatial navigation is indeed great way to navigate with the keyboard. I wonder if anyone seriously uses Tab-based keyboard navigation?

There's more smart keyboard navigation in Opera:

• Cmd+Enter to log in on page which has autosaved login.

• Cmd+Backspace to delete last path component of the URL.

• Space at bottom of page clicks link with "Next" in the label.

• '/', text, Enter navigates link with given label (as opposed to '.' + text which searches page as you type).

• And (a rather quirky) '1' and '2' keys switching previous/next tab. It's much easier to reach with left hand than combos such as Cmd+} or Alt+Cmd+→ used in other applications.

The last two have to be enabled in prefs.

Only for testing and random surfing when I got too many tabs on Chrome and FF at the same time. Chrome is still to deep in my heart... and it got it's place after kicking FF off there, so i think opera's nice interface will stay off for a while they still have some work to do to get a bigger piece.

Opera is one of those things that I have really tried to like, but that just never really caught on. It's like when you are picking a movie: that intellectual foreign movie has been in your queue for a week, but you are tired so you just grab the nearest retarded Michael Bay movie to relax.

The few times I used Opera I really liked it. I think the guys behind the browser are very innovative and it's a shame that they seem to be always running behind on standards compliance, causing all kinds of problems in daily usage. I have to admit that it has been a while since I last gave it a chance, so maybe things have changed. Right now, there are plenty open source alternatives that are simply better.