But the fact is that the Opera browser from Opera Software has strong mindshare among the cognoscenti of the browser world. Opera 4.0 Beta 1 for Windows and Beta 4 for Epoc were recently released, and reviewers rate the utility very highly.
Opera runs very fast.
It also supports HTML 3.2 and JavaScript, allows full keyboard navigation of Web documents and is being used for a number of brands of Internet appliances. Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist. He writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. Feedback Tell us your thoughts on this article or the issues raised in it. When you click Submit, you'll be taken back to this article.