Note to self.  Don’t start doing a 7 days in series that coincides with a holiday or the 12 days of beermas.   I’m going to summarize my experiences and close off the series early.

Things I have learned:

Opera is a great browser, fully customizable with a kitchen sink approach to features.  It has been an innovating force in the browser world for many years yet somehow remained a quiet 4th to Firefox, IE and Chrome.  I’m sure the actual developers of the 3 main browsers are well aware of Opera and adopting features that it innovates on.

Over the week I grew to like running everything in the one window – Mail, Chat, News, etc;  it grew on me.  I guess the main lesson I learned from this experiment was that I could be using a browser more deeply than I realized.

I’m not sure what browser I will end up in as I have grown to like Opera a lot, but it isn’t free software.  Software freedom is important to me and that may play a factor in which browser I settle on.

So in closing -  there is far more in the browser than I ever bothered to learn and my approach to using a browser is going to change as a result of this walk in Opera’s shoes.

Special thanks to Stuzz for suggesting I try Opera and providing so much information on how to use it.

Cheers.

Steve