>but with Opera you can't look for dixie chicks naked cover!

I just did it with Opera 7.10 and win 2k and no problem... all the naked chicks results on opera where there with no crash at all, here is the link in case you want to see these chicks:
LINK :P

I use opera and liked the mouse gestures a lot, made browsing really fast. The ability to easily disable showing images on a page is handy when a page is very slow. For the popup I use AKiller, so really don't mind opera/IE popups. Also installed uses between 4-7 Megas... compared to IE5.5 that are 75Mb or so to download, and IE6... even worse (not talking of the 450 kilos setup/installer that is a joke also to have a program installed that way)

But since opera7.xx the change was awesome... it's really fast in start displaying the pages. Just compare it with IE and you will be surprised. Opera start showing the text almost instantly while IE many times stays showing a white page for a long time until it loads all the images and then shows the entire page... text and images, while with opera you had time to read all the text in the mean while.

But just as there are different litestep themes... you should try and use the browser that best fulfill your needs.