On Saturday, Ganeshan told me that he had downloaded Opera 7, and that it was really good.  So I downloaded it that evening.  And it is simply amazing.

Now as you all probably know, Opera is the browser I primarily use (I use it more than Internet Explorer) - I was using 6.05 until now.  I liked the browser because it was lightweight (approx. 3 MB download, 12 MB if you also want to download Java with it), and it had so many user friendly features.  Also, it had an inbuilt popup killer, and most of all, it felt more secure than using Internet Explorer (now don't ask me why).

The new version has a more graphical and aesthetic interface, and they now don't have separate modes of opening the browser (tabbed, MDI or SDI) - it's all integrated into one interface now.  There's intelligent popup control now (you can set the browser to refuse all popups except for the ones you click to open), auto-filling of logins, a small-screen rendering view (shows how websites would look like on cellphones, and other such devices), improved mail client, etc. and as always, it's fast.  When I installed it, I actually felt like staying on the net for a while longer just to use it.  Now that's great.

By the way, I genuinely appreciate this browser, no one paid me anything to say all this (heh).