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You apparently know very little to nothing about Opera. They have the best built-in ad blocker of any browser that I know of. http://help.opera.com/Windows/9.00/en/contentblock.html Opera is a great browser, but you have to spend time using it to become aware of its power.

Opera has built in content blocking (including adds, and yes you can use wildcards) you just right click on the page and select block Content from the menu.

Heck, you can't call this an appropriate ad blocker...!

Why not? have you actually ever used it? you can click on just one ad and it usually figures out the wildcard filter for all of them and if it doesn't you can edit it manually. As i understand it the reason they don't actually call it a "ad blocker" is for PR reasons.

What kind of a weird "PR" do they have then?!

They don't want to upset advertisers.

LOL I like that btw... anything which is not "pro Opera" is immediately voted down. Is that some kind of virtual penis for Opera users? Voting against other POV? *LOL*

Upset advertisers? Nor are the Mozilla.org people... Opera's only "advertising" is whinging every few days. Mimimimimimimi, $company discriminates us!!!!11111 ... Well, there must be a reason that Firefox has a wider audience.

I don't know what happened to my comment so I'll repost..

First i don't believe Mozilla actually makes the Ad block extension themselves. Second while there are reasons why Firefox is more popular then opera, Marketing, Open source, more easily extensible, that doesn't mean its a better browser, look at IE for example it has a larger market share than Firefox, does that mean it's better?

As for Opera whining, i don't really have anything to say for that.

IE is shipped with Windows, so OF COURSE many ppl have it. But Firefox? Shipped with some distributions, but so is Opera... so why does Firefox have > 30 % in Europe, while Opera doesn't even reach a third of it?I guess it's the GUI (never heard of guidelines?), the missing blocking features (compared to ABP/NoScript, this one is just bullsh*t) and the incompatibility with recent online banking sites (see: I don't know ANY Opera version working fine with most online banking sites!) ...

Again Opera has built in content blocking, it is possible to download a filter list for it too if you so wish, you can disable scripts from running, in fact, Opera allows you to set site specific preferences.

As for site compatibility while this used to be a big problem in the past, it is mostly not an issue anymore (i don't have any problem with my online banking). As for the GUI if you don't like it you can easily change it with skins, rearanging toolbars etc.

What I'm saying is popularity doesn't prove its a better product.

Again Opera has built in content blocking, it is possible to download a filter list for it too if you so wish, you can disable scripts from running, in fact, Opera allows you to set site specific preferences.

As for site compatibility while this used to be a big problem in the past, it is mostly not an issue anymore (i don't have any problem with my online banking). As for the GUI if you don't like it you can easily change it with different skins, rearranging tool bars etc.

What I'm saying is popularity doesn't prove its a better product,

This is strange, i reposted my comment because it didn't show up, now their both there, but the second one (later time-stamp) is earlier.

No "skin" can ever replace Opera's missing GUI standards... after all, even a fully skinned Opera looks like Opera, not like a native Windows application.

@ der_tuxman:

"I rather seldomly get what all that Opera stuff is about. "Innovation" fail (they don't even have an ad blocker), but lots of talking bullshit about their own greatness... oh well."

Why all the hate on Opera? At least give them credit for innovations like Speed Dial (Chrome and Safari have "Speed Dial"-like features as standard now). Actually, the more I read your posts, the more frustrated I get at your ignorance...

With regard to ad blocking:

http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/ad-block

I use the "Ad Blocking FiltersetP":

http://userstyles.org/style/show/299

Just scroll down and click the "Load as user script" button and you are set, better than anything Firefox has to offer.


Online banking works fine on Opera for me, I'm not going to discuss market share because that is an irrelevent "whose penis is bigger" argument, and as for GUI - why is it a problem that you can't get Opera to look like a native Windows application? It's hilarious how, of all the nitpicking issues you could have chosen, you decided to use something insignificant (and incorrect for that matter)... you could have discussed Opera's lack of extensions for example.

In fact, it is quite the opposite: one thing that makes Opera superior to Firefox is the GUI - Opera is so much more customisable it's not even a contest.

Opera is more customizable than Firefox? Have you EVER actually USED the Fx? Its GUI is completely programmable (by XUL/XSL), unlike Opera's is...Well, Fx can make use of userscripts, too, so there's no real advantage in Opera. (However I didn't know yet that there IS an ad-blocking US, thanks!) Market share doesn't count indeed, just to make sure...

Opera has pretty much innovated anything worth while when it comes to browsers

http://www.geektechnica.com/2009/06/8-browser-innovations-started-by-opera/

LOL, tabbed browsing... an urban legend indeed, but simply not true. InternetWorks had tabs BEFORE Opera had them.Deleting private data was possible in Windows 98 (IE 4 or 5?), thus also not true...More details?