Well, roughly a week later, it's time to decide whether Opera or Mozilla Firefox will be my next gateway to the Information Superhighway.
Opera has the advantage of having more features and some of the being very innovative, e.g. Multiple Document Interface, Mouse Gestures, keyboard shortcuts galore, etc., though some are unnecessary, e.g. Mail, Chat. With respect to the MDI, Opera is much more committed to tabbed browsing than Firefox opening windows by default in a new tab. It's also the faster browser and offers more options and customizability.
Firefox has the advantage of using less HD space and most importantly rendering websites better. Firefox will display Gmail and Yahoo! Mail correctly, while Opera is not even supported by Gmail and has some issues with Yahoo! Mail's pulldown menus area.
Conclusion: Opera is in most respects the superior browser and it's default appearance looks better. However, the website rendering is an issue. Thus, Firefox should win out. Opera has one chance to redeem itself. I may have set Opera to spoof as IE (though Gmail doesn't seem fooled by that, so I'm not sure). If changing that setting to Opera does not make Yahoo! Mail display correctly, Firefox wins, at least until Opera 8 comes out.
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