Can Chrome give Internet Explorer a run for its money?

Palmetto,

I can't tell you how many years I've been using Opera now. Tabbed browsing has been a part of Opera for as long as I can remember. It is WC3 (is that right?) compliant. Pretty stable. It can remember pages I had open when I closed it and reopen them. It now has the Speed Dial which (gasp!) Chrome now has. I have never had to worry about Active X controls screwing up my computer.

I guess my thing is, Opera didn't give me the "infection vector" that I/E could give you, and it did a lot of other things that a lot of people were going "Oooo, lookie!" when Firefox came out. Opera's already been there done that and it does it well. No reason for me to jump ship. Not only that, it now has a mail client built in if you choose to use it, it has a Bittorrent client if you choose, and it now also does widgets.

I'll admit that there are pages where it doesn't load right, some sites I just HAVE to drop back to IE, but I fault the page designers for that. If they built their pages to the web specifications instead of MS specs my browser of choice would probably work on their site also.

What does Opera do for you that FF3 doesn't?

Thanks.

"Can Chrome give Internet Explorer a run for its money?

I think right now the question is, "Can Chrome give Firefox or Opera a run for their money?" Before tackling the browser with 70% of the market, Chrome has to displace other free non-MS browsers. From what I saw from my limited use, Chrome has a way to go before it competes with anything else.