[citation][nom]belardo[/nom]This could be both a GOOD thing or a bad thing.Opera *IS* the best browser out there... it may not be the fastest, but its feature set and ease of use while having lots of options makes it the best.firefox 4.-whatever the frack it is, copied Opera's look... and has added a few Opera features. IE9 is a cheap crap copy of firefox 4.xx Chrome is quite good, but it does stupid things... Opera is far more usable.Ever closet out tabs and want some of them back... try that with ff. On Chrome, it only does 1 at a time, backwards. With Opera, you can pick and choose - including other Windows.Tabbed browsing - Opera was first to have this native... since the 90s.If Opera is in trouble, then facebook or a good company could be its only savior.As long as facebook doesn't MESS with the desktop browser (which *WE* will know about it) - then I don't care. Apple, Google and especially Microsoft are major corporations with browsers. If they are lifting sensitive information - they'd be in trouble. facebook themselves is a service with an agreement that is specific to their business. A browser is NOT supposed to be company specific in operations.facebook could do the STUPID thing by buying Opera and killing the desktop version. We've seen this before. Palm bought BeOS (which was a free download at one point) to get tech to apply to their PDAs and promptly killed the OS!? They could of made it a free OS (not public domain) and created a WHOLE computer market. XP is on par with BeOS in many ways.facebook *can* grow the desktop Opera market easily... Its a solid product, it looks and feels great. Opera on my Android is 10x better than the Android browser! TRY IT, its free! You get tabbed browsing (not limited to screens) that is faster and far easier to access than Android's. I am usually able to get Desktop webpages - rather than being forced into cell-phone limited pages on some websites.facebook can't buy IE, Safari or Chrome because they good market share and owned by huge companies. They cannot buy firefox because its open source... and other than its add-on apps, its a pretty shitty copy-cat browser.So please facebook... if you buy Opera, take care of it. Their tech staff is top-notch, there is NOTHING wrong with the technology. The reason they are last is because their business is making a BROWSER. MS bought IE to add to their OS. Apple made Safari so they wouldn't rely on IE or Netscape - it matches their ideals. Chrome, created by the Juggernaut Google to have better hooks into their own apps. Opera and ff are the only stand-alone browsers on the market.PS: Yes I know there are even other browsers out there, most of them are projects or splits from ff or ie (mods).[/citation]
Best is a subjective thing when it comes to browsers, it is very personal so no Opera is not the best just the best for you. I do not like Opera I have tried it and just do not like it I always have preferred Firefox (and yes I have tried all the major browsers as well as some smaller ones) so for me Firefox is the best.