I‘m one of the lucky people who managed to get the free Opera license key. Cheers to the Opera Dev. Team.
Testing it, I found out that I didn’t like the default ‘Opera look’: something I managed to reset to the Windows default as soon as I discovered the feature. I don’t like Opera’s ‘revolutionary e-mailer’: for some kind of reason, I can’t not imagine an e-mailer that opens right in the browser.
There are a couple of rendering flaws too, particularly in the forms parsing code (it seems). Some boxes are small, some of them are big. The biggest problem I have is with the addressbar when it’s focussed: for some kind of reason, the tab literally tabs to the next available control in the browser. In Firefox and Explorer, the Tab key goes to thenext entry in the Autocomplete list. Building an Autocomplete like this is pretty hard: In RoundAbout I built an Autocomplete in a KeyUp event, ‘low-key-ly’ called ‘Memo3KeyUp’. Pay attention to the FLineProces flag that takes care of the very fast typers among us.
That said: the scrolling is superb and beats Firefox. Also, would you take your girlfriend/wife boyfriend/husband to the Opera or Firefox? For now, I’ll keep Opera as a backup browser. Internet Explorer is definitely out.