Rats! Forgot to add Opera to my story. Grr. And no edit button.

The first time I tried Opera was in 1999, IIRC. And I tried a number of versions of Opera, but I never liked it. First because it was expensive (I got Netscape 3 on the free academic license) and I didn't like the ads. Also, back in the day, it had pretty buggy CSS and JavaScript support. Not nearly as buggy as Netscape 4's, but certainly more so than IE's. So I guess that biased me against Opera's engine. The interface was also too cluttered and noisy--not very clean... and the ads didn't help with that bit. Subsequent versions fixed the rendering problems and cleaned up the interface somewhat, but by then, I had already had enough bad experiences with Opera, and the interface still wasn't as clean as what I would've liked. Firefox, on the other hand, packs all the features and had a nice, clean interface from day one.