Like Squaresville, Man

I have been trying out Opera 8 beta for an hour or so. It's real neato. It has some cool features. It may even surf faster than IE. Oddly enough, though, I couldn't compose a post on Blogger with it, it wouldn't let me type in the text box. Well, it is a beta version. It costs $39 or is free if you can put up with a small advertising banner. Banners usually bug me, but since it is so easy to switch to full sceen mode it doesn't bother me with Opera. There are also some virus resistance advantages to non-EI browsers.
I'm usually slow to warm up to new things but I already like Opera and I've barely gotten started with it.