Brett_Tabke - 3:52 pm on Oct 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

I prefer Opera most for the "surf speed" and reduced system resource usage. The lower resources (memory, cpu load) that Opera requires means you can open 4-5 times as many pages as you can with IE or Moz.

In Opera, all you have to do is shift-click the link into a new window or shift-control-click to open the link in the background. That keeps everything nice and separate in it's own window. Those windows become buttons on Operas "window bar". Using that system, holds your starting page as an anchor page you can come back to time and time again. After you finish reading the sub-links that took you off the page, you never have to back button - you just close the window and presto, you are back where you started. You control the speed and direction of your surfing - not the random links on a page.

Where this works great is for search engine surfing. I just shift-control-click down a search results page on good looking listings. That causes the links to load the pages in windows underneath the main one. So, as you are clicking the likely results, they start loading in the background. No more waiting. Then you just control-tab through the pages that have loaded.

That's where the real speed of Opera is at : surf speed. You can surf rings around other browsers - even those with tabbed window systems like Moz and the IE addons. There is nothing like it in the entire browser world.

When you read in the foreground and hit a link you want to take, you can just shift-control-click it and continuing reading while the link loads in the background. Because of that ability to background load links you click, I feel I can do more info surfing with Opera on a 56k line that other browsers can do with dsl or faster.