On Tuesday, Opera announced alpha release of opera browser. If you read some initial posts on this blog, you already know how much I love this browser. Even though a lot has been said about browsers (and will be), this is the best browser on the planet.

Everyone, yes I said everyone including MS and Apple, copied features which opera introduced. But you know Howard Aiken once said...

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

The best example is the zoom feature in IE which is almost useless if you compare with Opera. They totally copied it but couldn't make it as smooth as Opera. You zoom and it gets all scrollbars whereas Opera actually resizes the HTML elements to make it useful.

So, go on and follow the link. You'll never come back to IE unless the site is coded to work only with IE which, by the way, Opera takes care pretty well by allowing to open the current page in any browser on your PC.

Opera Browser 9.5 Alpha release

PS: This is still in alpha.