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sarfaraz
07/06/2008 01:15 PM
excellent
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ron
10/09/2008 12:05 PM
opera 9.5 is a good browser, not sure how it will stand up in near future with chrome from google, currently opera is highly customizable, i could have speed dial setup, have menu on toolbar, block ads, remove menu bar to increase browsing space and so on ...
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Vadim Schetinkin
19/10/2008 11:52 AM
I was impressed by Opera 9.6.... it became much better in terms of sage in comparison with earlier Opera's versions... Somehow in the past I tried Opera but stoped to use it in the favour of Seamonkey.... Then FF3 comes.... now I'm going to test FF3 / Opera 9.6 browsers.... to choose what is best... Opera is more productive after 2 hours of use... it seems...
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