The new integrated search field lets you choose search engines and search from the URL line. Since your search is plugged into the URL automatically, you can also save searches as bookmarks. We liked Opera from the start, with its small footprint and quick download. You just get the file and install. This includes the e-mail and newsreader clients as well.
Opera says it is the fastest browser in the world, a hard claim to substantiate.
You do feel that it is going just a little faster on loading pages, especially if you're used to IE or Netscape on a dial-up connection or slower machine. Starting up Opera is quick. In informal tests on a PIII 450 machine, Opera opened to a blank screen in under 5 seconds. IE 5.5 took about 6.5 seconds, and Netscape 6.0 took 14.5 seconds. Our tests for page loading with ZDNet as our home page showed Opera fastest on the first load of a page, but IE, due to superior caching, matched it on subsequent loads.