Ah, it seems that the Opera browser is setting its path to one which bears a striking similarity to that of Firefox. Does this mean that they are going Open Source too? You will have to read on to find out.

I’m happy to report that Opera Software’s new web browser, called Opera 8, has continued its movement in the right direction. I blogged on some of their earlier progress with the Opera 7.6 Preview release and much more has improved since then, though most of my specific complaints are still unresolved.

This app is certainly lightyears ahead of Opera 7 and earlier versions. My big complaints are that the installer still has that unnecessary panel describing features, the statusbar is still not part of the default setup, the graphical ad setup is a lot less usable out of the box than the Google text ad setup, the menus, while much improved are still a bit confusing, the text selection cursor is still wrong, and the pop-up blocking doesn’t provide any obvious feedback for cases where the default behavior is not what the user wants. That’s not bad considering some of my earlier issues with Opera 7.5. [Read the rest]