Opera practically comes up with everything first that the other browsers copy. They were the first to use tabbed browsing, mouse gestures in a browser, the most visited page/dialer, syncing user settings to cloud, stacking tabs, etc. There's too many to list. For a long time, it was also the fastest browser. Unfortunately, they don't have the marketshare and many websites will pop up with the "does not support your browser" message and tells me to download IE, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome when all the features actually work.
I still have IE9 and Chrome however because I find Google favors their apps running in Chrome and IE9 is mostly there for simplicity and Netflix as Silverlight seems to work a little better. I rarely use them though, Opera is my browser 90% of the time and when I move to the other ones, I feel helpless without built in mouse gestures or server side turbo cache (when I am on a slow connection) or my cloud settings, or the program does not default to saving the last opened tabs.
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