Microsoft has given us the choice of 12 browsers and I’ve started trialling them – giving each one a week – last week I’ve been using Opera.

Looks pretty spartan and no menus – however once you realise you need to click on the logo in the top left things are fine – even configured itself for Google UK – which is nice.

Chris H recommends I look at Opera Unite – and it certainly looks very useful on first looks – in fact it’s pretty useful for sharing files and you could even host a blog with it.

One thing you do notice about Opera is it’s quick compared to the others blindingly so.

Now the downside – Opera like all the browsers I tried so fax – excepting Firefox – fails to run a number of sites correctly – that said it’s no worse than the most ubiquitous browser – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – so if speed is your need then you should give Opera a spin as I said it’s quick blindingly quick.

This week I’ll be using Safari.