In fact, if you are tired of NetScape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer being the only choices of Internet browser that seem to be available, you should know that, in this browser war, the fat lady hasn't exercised her prodigious pipes yet. Opera is a browser that can be downloaded for free, and used until you decide whether it is for you. Currently in version 3.51, this browser is so cool that people around the planet are willing to pay for it, in an age when the two major browsers, bloated as they are, are free. In some ways, Opera is superior to the Big Two, in that it allows multiple windows to be open without running out of memory, gives you the option of tiling windows so that you don't have to guess where a previous page is located, allows all open documents to be added with just two clicks of the mouse, and many other great features. Pages really speed to the page, and you can save a lot of time using it.
Opera is user supported, and the company is very attuned to user requests and needs.
It doesn't want to be the biggest, but it does want to be the best. While the other two browsers are busy trying to make their software code different from the rest, Opera has stuck to HTML standards, and you thus don't have to worry about which browser will show a particular page better. Opera handles them all. Opera is very configurable, and the user can toggle many functions and options, so that it works just the way you want it to. I walked away from NetScape, when the company decided to make the latest version of Communicator a walking billboard for JAVA advertisers, and made it difficult to keep from coming back to NetScape's home page.