Opera9 beta

This is one browser that makes a lot of sense having on your desktop. Apart from its good user interface, excellent support for standards and its ability to be highly customizable, Opera team has now introduced a new feature called Widgets. "Widgets are small Web applications that live outside the Opera window". And boy are they lovely! They're analogous to Extensions to Firefox or Plugins to IE, but they look so much cooler! Although they do occupy their own window. This browser has been here for quite some time, and seeing that IE7 is not going to be released for Win2k, 98SE and older OSes, you see browsers like Opera taking over. Still in beta, the preview release is available for downloads now.

I'm gettin it cuz' :

• Passes the Acid2 test for intense CSS validation.
• Built-in BitTorrent support.
• Introducing Widgets! Web help applications
• Fastest start-up time on Windows.
• No memory hogging in Fwd/Back and Tab feature (like Firefox).
• Most secure on Windows.
• Tabbed Browsing, Pop-up Blocking, Integrated Search (way back since Opera 4, 5 & 5).
• Supported almost 11 different Operating Systems!! (AND OperaMini for Mobiles)

Naah! Forget it cuz' :

• Still in beta, but Stable release to be out soon
• Some widgets are cumbersome and processor heavy.

Link:
www.opera.com