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Forgot to mention this last week, but Opera have finally decided to release their browser for free! Well, they have always had a free version but it was embedded with somewhat annoying banner ads. I’ve always liked the Opera browser but the embedded ads had always turned me off.

Opera are a firm believer in web standards and their browser has always been recommended by sites such as Browse Happy. The browser also includes an email client but it requires a huge learning curve to master as it ditches the concept of mail folders, relying instead on tags and categories. I’ve tried using the mail client but found it unreliable and buggy and from reading the Opera forums, many others have found that too. There is also no support for composing emails with formatting despite this being one of the main feature requests in the forums.

Overall the browser is definitely worth checking out, although I would still have to recommend a combination of Firefox and Thunderbird over Opera. Read more and download here: http://www.opera.com/free