Been running Opera for years, but I refuse to update (note I don't say upgrade) past 12.xx. It was the most prominent one available that would run under both windoze and linux when I started doing the penguin thing. It's rarely failed me, but when it does, Firefox picks right up. Netscape (my previous browser) died pretty quickly at the same time. It's possible to have Opera spoof ignorance exploiter for sites that are just so stoopid they card you up front, and generally renders the sites properly unless they've been purposely crippled for IE. Been trying out SRWare Iron, which is Chrome without Google watching your every move.