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Originally Posted by ARJWright View Post
I thought that I'd chime in here. One of the things that I liked best about the IT when I reviewed it this time last year was the Opera browser. It was not just fast, but rendering of sites was very well done (and led to a good deal of bug reports to developers to fix their sites with correct code).
Lies! Opera rendered sites very poorly. It was an old and buggy rendering engine that was very much non-standards–compliant.

Originally Posted by ARJWright View Post
That being said, I am liking MicroB just a touch more because of the expanded features support. I do wish that it were more like the FF3 beta and load HTML lighting fast, but it does ok in that dept.
MicroB would be lightning-fast, too, if you ran it on a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo.

Originally Posted by ARJWright View Post
One thing that I have not see much a definitve answer on has been the use of browser extensions. It would seem to me that on such a device that the use of extensions and widgets would be really good. But other than a few GreaseMonkey scripts, I do not see any. If that area of things could pic up (along with the rendering performance), I'd be happier with it.
MicroB does not use the same interface elements and scripting as Firefox. Because of this, GUI stuff has to be specifically ported. More plugins will come with time.