Opera has always been this rogue browser. I remember trying it a while back and thinking that it wasn't that good. I just read the other day that the new version was free, so I decided I'd download it and try it. I'm posting this from Opera 5.12.

This sucker hauls ass, it's really pretty quick. Not perfect, neither is Mozilla, but it's still a pretty decent little app. There's a version for Linux too. F@#$ Internet Explorer!