This page used to be mostly about Opera, praise and tips and tricks and such. I was an Opera fanatic around the turn of the millennium, and a registered user. It was small, fast, (allegedly) standards compliant, and had many handy features not found in other browsers. It was also buggy and crashed a lot, but we fans loved it anyway. But then Opera got big and bloated like the other browsers, changing to be more like them in a grab for market share I guess. And I found that its standards compliance wasn't much better than that of the others, in some ways worse; I guess standards compliant for Opera just meant no extensions. (Sometimes their "compliance" seemed more like a misunderstanding of the English standards documentation!) So I stopped using it as my development testbed, and then used it less and less for casual browsing too as time passed. By the time I removed Opera from the last machine on which I had installed it (April 2005), it still hadn't become reliable enough for me to use when I absolutely needed something to work.
So that's why this page is pretty empty now. I cleared out all my Opera praise and rants, and tips that mostly didn't matter anymore. I did give Opera another chance later anyway, when I needed an IRC client. Worked okay, but then I dumped it again. Used Internet Explorer for a while, then switched to SeaMonkey. Switched to Firefox after I overheard some coworkers talking about Firebug...