Not to get off subject but Opera does have an adlblock ability. The problem is you have to load the page first, then go back and block the bad stuff after the fact. Once the page is loaded right click anywhere on the page as long as it is not a link or an ad, then select something to effect of “Block Content”, and then go up and down the page clicking what you want to block. When you have blocked all the content that you don’t want, you just click on the “Done” button at the top. I do think that Opera WILL remember what you blocked, and block it every time it encounters that same content on other pages.

I agree with Marie, the only real problem I see with Arora is the lack of a Home button next to the navigational buttons. For a lightweight browser, I really like it. It sure beats Midori.

I use a netbook extensively and am finding that Opera is delivering the best overall performance for me right now compared to the other major browsers. It’s incredibly fast on start up, displays pages quickly, minimizes/maximizes quickly, manages memory exceptionally well and doesn’t stall (hard drive thrashes) on me as often as Firefox, IE or Chrome.

The major downside is the lack of adblocking. I had been on Firefox for the last couple of years and have essentially been surfing in an Ad-Free environment with AdBlocker and well as managing site scripts via NoScript during this time. I had literally been in a time warp as to how bad the ads have gotten in the Internet.

Ads don’t just effect the amount of data downloaded but the speed of the page displays since multiple connections are being made to ad server sites all of which operate at different speeds.

It would be a boon to have a browser developed that addresses these speed concerns internally related to Ads and Scripts – as well as dealing with the security and privacy issues related to these spyware-type issues. Dealing with Ads and 3rd-party scripts is a great way to speed up web-surfing right off the bat. At the very least – it would stand out from the crowd.