Actually, there's a video showing it to be quite a bit faster than Safari in a side-by-side comparison.

Funny, by blocking ads and still visiting the site you are costing the content provider money. You don't seem to have a problem with that. If the ads bother you that much, the solution is much simpler than using adblocking software. Just don't visit that site.

Like, say, this one.

That would indeed be the correct course of action, were it not for the fact that the government has a rather spotted history of providing the public with good research on the dangers of drugs. The perception of the public that drugs are dangerous is based, for a large part, on government funded research, and the government seems to be rather keen on finding something wrong with the drugs they're actively trying to ban.

As public policy expert Mark Kleiman once said: "There is a very, very heavy cost to the process of devaluing information that comes from the government. Lincoln was right. Government trust is a precious resource and there's a question about how much of it we want to squander in telling kids not to use drugs."

How about this one:

Did your cat calm down? Thanks...... You are the cheapest therapist I have ever seen. I think that is a typical Eric comment, I am glad you can see past the shroud. Have a great day!

True, but that doesn't make the pager message less chilling

In this file I noticed a message that, in hindsight, is especially morbid:

Good morning. I haven't heard from you in a while. I'll try one more time and I suppose I will take the hint if you don't page me back. Have a good day. Todd

However tempted it may have been, that actually wasn't a RickRoll for a change ;)

Apparently they figured the release was important enough for a full-blown trailer as well ;-)

I think drawing any conclusions based 51 exploit-kit using hackers, from which only 15 IP addresses and browsers could be determined using a forged referer field, is a prime example of bogus methodology ;)

I don't think any conclusions based on such a small sample group can be called representative, it's not specifically something either in favour or against Opera.

The fact that people who run drive-by exploit sites use Opera or Firefox didn't surprise me much, I just wish they'd picked a larger sample group :)

Just for the record: "1 in 4 hackers use Opera" story is based on total global sample of 15 hackers... :-)