Various web browsers - Opera 10.50 Beta

Wait, this is not Chinese Opera, a free show for you to see.

Opera is official name for a web browser. Its icon is a bright right oval shape, resembing the letter 'O'.

Opera web browser is one of the fast free web browsers apart from Google Chrome 6, Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and Safari 4. At the time I write this, I'm using Opera 10.50 Beta (testing version) in my computer, runs on by Windows Xp service pack 2.

Actually, Opera 10.50 Beta is an outdated version. The official version (final release) is Opera 10.61 like you see in the image above.

When I open up Opera, the web browser asks me to update into the latest version. I've disabled the auto-update feature because it slows down my internet speed, so I need to download the latest version manually on the other day.

There's a lot of feature to be explored in Opera. When you start it, the frontal view is very simple, similar to a view you can see in Google Chrome 5 or Google Chrome 6.

Opera will guide you to the intro page at the first time you use it. Its the same thing in Mozilla Firefox where Firefox opens up welcome page each time you using it for the first time in your computer (or any computer you've installed it).

Opera gives you total freedom to personalized the setting.

You can set the Toolbar to display Navigation Bar, or otherwise you can choose not to use the Navigation Bar (a bar with Back/Forth button on it) while browsing the webpages. Google Chrome 6 does not installed with this feature.