Opera Reviewer's Comments
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Opera sings to a different tune—a technologically advanced tune, and is the “TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award” Internet browser. This browser has all of the entertaining and practical features that will not only make surfing the web fun, but also functional.
Just a few of the outstanding features include interactive voice, thumbnail previews, mouse gestures and customizing skins. This is one of the few browsers that has interactive voice commands. You can navigate the web by talking to the browser, and Opera will even read text to you.
Configure Opera to fit your needs and your style. Arrange panels, toolbars and buttons and choose from 85 unique skins and various widgets.
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Features Set:
Opera offers a combination of features unlike any other Internet browser that will allow you to experience the web a new way. For example, through voice commands you can navigate the web and even have Opera read the text to you. We were skeptical, but the feature works great. The browser offers tabbed browsing, so you can quickly navigate from site to site and open a number of pages in one browser window, or surf the web using mouse gestures.
Other convenient browsing features include an integrated search function, customizable toolbars and thumbnail previews. Furthermore, you can cascade or tile web pages to view and work on more than one page at a time.
Through Opera, you are able to customize your web experience. They offer a large database of skins so you can change the appearance of your browser. Choose from hundreds of widgets to make your web experience more enjoyable. Widgets are small programs like games, news, tools and more.
More features include the RSS feeds, which have an icon that appears when a feed is detected, just click the icon to add the feed. You can also add notes to web pages so when you visit a web page later your notes will come up. This is excellent for web research.
Security:
Opera allows you to customize your security settings. This browser protects against pop–ups, spyware, viruses and phishing schemes. You can also clear all of your personal information with just a click.
Ease of Use:
The browser is user–friendly and because it is so customizable, it will adapt to you-not the other way around. All of the buttons are well labeled so you’ll have no problem finding what you’re looking for, even the first time you use the browser.
Ease of Installation/Setup:
We didn’t have any problems downloading or setting up Opera.
Help/Support:
You can purchase a premium support package that comes with email support. However, there is enough online information you really shouldn’t need the extra support. You’ll find tutorials, FAQs and a knowledge base on the Opera help page. You can also join a user forum to learn from other users.
Summary:
Though not as popular as some of the other Internet Browsers, we rank Opera at the top due to its customization abilities and extensive features. Even with the additional features, we found Opera easy to use. This is a FREE download and you can access the Opera mobile and mini browsers as well.
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