For a while we were putting in little Opera-specific hacks to work around its painfully slow rendering engine (which ironically is the reason it's such a pleasant browser to develop against)
I've only used Opera since it became free in version 9, but it's always seemed a lot faster than Firefox and IE. It's even gotten noticeably faster upon all the significant updates I've seen.
It's surprising to see you describe Opera as IE-like (broken) and slow, but since you probably have more experience in these things, I'll have to take your word for it.
I've only used Opera since it became free in version 9, but it's always seemed a lot faster than Firefox and IE. It's even gotten noticeably faster upon all the significant updates I've seen.
It's surprising to see you describe Opera as IE-like (broken) and slow, but since you probably have more experience in these things, I'll have to take your word for it.