starway - 11:09 am on Oct 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

About Opera from bobriggs's post:

1) It crashed a lot for no apparent reason. (WIN2K, 6.0)

From my experience, Opera crashes very very rarely. Win2k is stable system and I have no problems with browsers on it.
Maybe you should upgrade to the latest 6.05 as there are many small bugs fixed there.
Also, even if it crashed, you should see how it recovers all previously opened windows. Excellent idea that doesn't exist in any other browser!

4) I've never figured out where the cookies are. (I'm sure someone will tell me)

Preferences (Alt+P) > Privacy
Excellent cookies management!

6) DHTML and advanced CSS is not supported. They'll tell you that on their website.

You're mixing completely different things. DOM issues are known (wait for the new Opera7!), but CSS support is the best among all browsers, Mozilla and Opera both are holding the 1st place in this competition and are [almost] equal, with few differences.

about Mozilla:

3) Tabbed browsing, even though the buttons in Opera allow the same thing, seems a lot easier.

I think exactly the opposite. Opera's window/"tabs" management is more flexible, easy and fast. Why flexible? There are many different ways to switch between (and manipulate with) opened windows: several ones using keyboard and several ones using mouse, so everybody can find it's favourite one.

Just a thought: many of those new features that are treated as a Mozilla's strong sides: tabs, mouse gestures, popup blocking, etc... were first implemented in Opera. They were just copied by Mozilla community. All browser enhancements that fisrt appeared in Opera are copied by Mozilla.

Right now Mozilla 1.1 context menu is almost equal to the one of Opera - test it on some framed site and you'll see.