Opera

Opera is a fast, sophisticated browser program that is competition to Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla and Firefox. It features zooming of the webpages, quick searching at the search engine of your choice, email via Opera or the email program of your choice, news (Usenet) reading, turning off pop-up windows, choice of "windows on desktop" or "windows within Opera", setting sounds to go with actions, numerous accessibility options, easy on-off of scripting, optional setting as default browser for file extensions of your choice, identification as other browsers, detailed history and cache control. Opera has a much more flexible bookmarks / favorites system than IE or Netscape.

Opera is free, as of version 8.5!

SPONSORED MODE, also known as Advertising Supported mode

Sponsored Mode does not exist any more! Opera is free, as of version 8.5!
PAID MODE

Paid mode does not exist any more! Opera is free, as of version 8.5!
Download Opera at http://www.opera.com. Pick "Opera with Java" option.
Install (and uninstall) are straight forward. Pick the directory.
Option to install Java, if you picked the Java version.
Quick welcome screen. Pick Windows on Desktop or Windows within Opera.
Go to File / Preferences and set any user-specific things you want to
Set these via "Tools/Preferences"
Set your home page to wherever you want
Leave personal information blank if you like. Pick, or not, your advertising preferences.
Leave email settings on "Opera", but don’t put in any server information
Set your news server settings, e.g. "news.east.cox.net"
Set "Identify as" to "Opera". You can always fake as IE or NS when you find an obnoxious website that requires one of them.
Set your news server settings, e.g. "news.east.cox.net"
Import your favorites / bookmarks from IE or Netscape
Still a few compatibility problems show up. Usually it means the website didn’t write their code to W3C standards, but IE was forgiving of the errors
Few websites really only work with IE. Sometimes they really require IE, e.g. if they use Active-X. Set IE’s security options to "Prompt" for all script downloads.)
Help, FAQ’s, plug-in’s, skins and more at http://my.opera.com