Opera worked well on crappy dial-up connections. Then, you begin to appreciate its other features (e.g. first browser with tabbed browsing etc.) Then you use it

Opera worked well on crappy dial-up connections. Then, you begin to appreciate its other features (e.g. first browser with tabbed browsing etc.) Then you use it by force of habit until it pisses you off in a major way, like not rendering the sites that other browsers have no trouble with. That's my experience.