Mind you, I don’t use Javascript when browser web sites, and I trust my e-mail to KMail to download. Otherwise, Opera is simply faster to load the program and faster to load tabs and doesn’t start lagging the same as Firefox 2 does for me, on Fedora Linux, Kubuntu Linux, and Windows Vista all three alike. Further, the interface is less cluttered than Konqueror, and more responsive than Internet Explorer 7. At least, for me this is the case.

I’ve never used Opera on am embedded device (only on PC’s, laptops, and the Nintendo Wii), so I’m surprised to learn it lacks snappiness so widely (although I’d read about its poor showing on the DS in the past).

I’ll continue to use Opera as long as it’s the quickest, snappiest browser with the best memory usage available to me. I’d also pay for it if it still required it, as I find it to be the superior browser.

I think a lot of people, on the other hand, won’t even give it a chance because it used to have a price tag. I still get the impression from many people, in general, that any cost is too much.

But, then, I also hang around the open source software world, where if you even think of suggesting someone should ask for a penny to use the software they spent the last year non-stop writing, you’ll be boo’d off the ‘net as Microsoft cronie.

Opera these days turned their efforts towards the embedded market, and it shows. Nobody notices if it’s slow or non-compliant, because we expect mobile devices to be crippled. I have a perfect sample of their handiwork in the shape of my DS.

The question is, if it ever was good except in the pink-tinted memories of good old days. I think it wasn’t.

I don’t think the example of Opera teaches us anything about downloadable anime.