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Originally Posted by blitzen
FF is more forgiving with errors in html code.
If there is no image, you don't see that huge box with an "X" like you see in IE. FF displays nothing.
If you forget a closing tag or the end ">", FF generally guesses it correctly and the page will show up right.
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That is why you should try differnt options / views when loading the page in Opera.
I can not see that there is more Ad on Opera than on the other browsers. The people at Opera is a company that has to pay their staff. There is a free version with ad, but you have to pay for extra quality, that is a version excluding Ad. When you buy a computer with MS OS, you get IE by default on most (all) of them.
There is very thight integration between FF and Google. You are asked to install the Google Toolbar etc. when you upgrade to a new version. In Opera, you can choose search engine with a clik with the mouse.
Writing DOM event listeners according to the W3C DOM 2 specification is extremely simple. The Internet Explorer version is a night mare in comparison. I am an economist. These lack of standards has costed the world billions of USD in loss of efficiency, lack of usability and accessibility.
Browser security. There are no more secure web browser than Opera as far as I know. Security zones in IE is not secure at all. It is false security. If you talk about web security, I can not simply take you as a surfer seriously if you do not use a secure browser. Did you say that you was attacked by cross browser scripting or your bank account was hacked. First question, which browser did you use?
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If I should shop online, and that online shop had problems with the Opera browser, I would be very careful about shopping there. Can the problem be a cross browser (server) script that try to steal your credit card number?
Conclusion.
Security is the most important factor in my rankning.