The beauty of Gecko and XUL is that the browser can be recompiled to deliver the same user experience on a variety of devices. Though still unstable at press time, Netscape 6 is highly customizable and fast. Password Manager and Cookie Manager give you greater control over your privacy. Behind curtain number three is Opera, a refreshingly different browser. Opera is not based on Mosaic, yet it is fully compliant with Internet standards.
Opera is an extremely small and very fast browser and e-mail application.
Though Opera cannot compete with Microsoft and Netscape in terms of overall feature-set richness, the product does a respectable job in terms of useful features. One impressive feature lets users zoom in and out of pages and view them in full-screen mode. The program, however, does not include Java, which has to be downloaded from another site, and installation of the engine and plug-ins requires some tricky manual configuration. Before you are three browser choices, each with its own pluses and minuses. For new users, IE has the edge, since it is preinstalled with Microsoft OSs and easy to use.