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Company - Opera

Brief Description – A fast popular Web browser

General Ratings

• Interface – 5/5
• Ease of use – 5/5
• Memory Usage – 4/5
• Popularity – 4/5
• Price ($0.00) – 5/5
• No. of bugs – 5/5

Software specific ratings

• Browsing speed – 5/5
• Compatibility – 3/5
• Privacy – 5/5
• Plug-ins & add-ons – 5/5

Rating Description

• Interface

Features a general web browser interface. Additionally support browser content skinning. Also skins could be downloaded from the Opera website.

• Ease of use

Easy to use application. Supports bookmarks in toolbars. Contains built in search engine features for popular websites (Google, Amazon, etc.). Also supports keyword search (e.g.: g [search term] to search Google, etc.) In addition it has a ‘wand’ a password manager.

• Memory Usage

Consumes very little memory, takes virtually no time to launch. Memory consumption increases as more tabs are simultaneously used.

• Popularity

Quite a popular program which has gained a considerable amount of good ratings and recommendations.

• Price

A real bargain for $0.

• Bugs

Bug-free application

• Browsing Speed

This browser is recommended for slow connections as it displays the content as it is loaded unlike most other browsers which loads the entire or half a web page’s content and then display it. Due to this system it uses even though it may be relatively slow to load the entire page it is still considered as a fast browser.

• Compatibility

One of the main weaknesses in the browser is some websites are not supported by Opera. One out of quite a few examples maybe the Google page creator control panel.

• Privacy

Ensures privacy with a ‘delete private data’ feature where users could easily select which temporary files to delete (cookies, history, etc.).

• Plug-ins and Add-ons

Contains basic plug-ins (Flash, Java) which are not pre-installed though. Contains plenty of add-ons or ‘widgets’ which provide many useful features including search engines, weather forecasting tools and even games. One of the main advantages of the program.

Other Details

Badware free?

Totally badware free tested using Kaspersky Anti-virus and Ad Aware Anti-Spyware. (Some anti-spyware programs may not be compatible with Opera and may not provide spyware protection while surfing using Opera which may put your PC at high risk)

Disk space occupied (5/5)

Installer size - ~7MB

Installed directory size - ~12MB

Portability

Special portable version available by Obermair Markus

Overall (4/5)

A good web browser, recommended for users especially with narrowband connections.

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