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After leaving Safari behind to spend a week with Firefox, and then another in OmniWeb, I was surprised to find that my Web browsing experience was going pretty well. I even compared OmniWeb to visiting a town where there are happy surprises around every corner. However, my trip to "Opera-ville" … I’m pretty sure the guy that punched me in the stomach as I rounded the first corner also stole my milk money.

Where I found Firefox to be a capable Web browser, and OmniWeb good enough to make me comfortable abandoning Safari, Opera was an exercise in pain. In fact, I was forced to break self-imposed rule number 3, No launching Safari "just to check this one page." Living in a single browser is non-negotiable, more than once because I could not get Web pages that are critical to my TMO editor duties to render in Opera. Technology News: Software: Opera Browser Hits a Sour Note