The title probably says it all.
For me, it's Opera (with the Ghostery, AutoStack and 'SaveFrom.net Helper' extensions as well as a skin/theme that makes it look more like the classic Opera versions of old) hands down. I like the way it handles tabs, how it can be operated from the keyboard, how it looks and feels generally, how it performs and how it's rather strict about standards compliance. I know it's proprietary software, but unlike e.g. Theo DeRaadt I can live with that as long as it's free and there's a current native FreeBSD version available.
Feel free to vent your comments as long as it remains civil.
[edit: to be fair, I have a few annoyances as well]
For me, it's Opera (with the Ghostery, AutoStack and 'SaveFrom.net Helper' extensions as well as a skin/theme that makes it look more like the classic Opera versions of old) hands down. I like the way it handles tabs, how it can be operated from the keyboard, how it looks and feels generally, how it performs and how it's rather strict about standards compliance. I know it's proprietary software, but unlike e.g. Theo DeRaadt I can live with that as long as it's free and there's a current native FreeBSD version available.
Feel free to vent your comments as long as it remains civil.
[edit: to be fair, I have a few annoyances as well]
- Opera's built-in (and per-site-configurable) blocking facilities are impressive, but one has to configure this either in advance or as one goes along. If Opera came with a few (selectable) standard rulesets (e.g. based on Privoxy), that would be great. On the plus side, a well-configured Opera pretty much eliminates any need for e.g. Privoxy.
- Just like Firefox Opera can memorise usernames, passwords and such. What I do like is that while Firefox tends to automagically fill these in, Opera's doesn't fill in anything until you use the "wand" button. But what I don't like is that clicking the wand immediately submits too and that editing what the wand fills in can be rather cumbersome.
- Although Opera can be operated with the keyboard quite nicely, some of the default keybindings don't make a lot of sense to me and if you don't disable/modify these Opera can sometimes act rather puzzlingly when you accidently hit the wrong key combo.
Although I like it that you can easily add almost any search facility to the search bar, Opera does sometimes fail to get the corresponding favicon right and there doesn't seem to be a way to manually specify any.- Opera (optionally, if I'm not mistaken) comes with a built-in torrent client but I've never been able to get it working. Fortunately there are plenty of specific torrent clients (e.g. net-p2p/transmission, to name but one popular choice), but it still bugs me that I can't seem to be able to get Opera's built-in torrent client to work.
(on Mac, I love the bookmark/history preview - so much easier to pick a page out of the history by look rather than page title - you know what it's like - you find some howto or other page you can't remember where and want to go back to it a few weeks later).
