Once upon a time I were actually an Opera user. It’s been a couple of years since then of course, but I still remember it was better to interpret valid XHTML and HTML. And the evil opponent IE which were defining the market standard. Now things have changed. IE 6 are being hunted down by pretty much any internet media society and the European Union have placed it’s large boot of a bill right i the ass of Microsoft and forced it to provide a browser choice in it’s operating system. Meanwhile IE 7 and 8s marketshare are being targeted by Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Before the choice was between Opera and IE, later when Firefox came around, it unfortunately was a greater threat to Opera rather than IE and instead of providing a broad palette of browsers competing towards an open and free market. They pretty much ate each other.

The last year and a half have defined some specific competing measurement – in specific: speed! Firefox was always faster than IE, no doubt. But then came along Chrome, and WOW it just ate both of then. Then IE said they were faster again – but they really weren’t. Firefox had a rebound and were really fast. Then Chrome knocked back and forth.

A couple of days ago  Opera 10.50 came around. And OMFG it’s really nasty fast. It’s the first time sine I switched to Chrome I consider switching to something else! But it’s just amazing! But the coolest thing isn’t actually just the speed. They’ve went to a different design, much like Chrome. But the coolest thing is actually Opera Unite. A build in application server bringing Software As a Service to a personal level where you host your own services right in your browser. They’ve been using the little one on the top of the body with this one I promise you.

Say hi to me on my fridge here (a little social application where you can leave notes to each other).

The address is: http://notebook.rubberd.operaunite.com/fridge/