Opera has some nice features as well, particularly a scale that lets you enlarge or reduce text size on the fly. This comes in handy for cramming lots of information into a small space, or for assisting vision-impaired Web viewers. Expect this feature to show up in other browsers fast. Opera also offers newsgroups, FTP and gopher and supports SSL, the Web security protocol. With a single click you can access a data file or stored Web page on your hard drive - and quickly at that.
Opera is small enough to fit on a floppy disk and takes little time to download and set up.
But that's about it. Take e-mail, for example. A couple of readers told me that it supports Eudora mail, however. There is not enough Java use on the Web to make this much of a hindrance, however. Opera's interface is pretty different from the standard Windowslike screen we're used to.