For a while we were putting in little Opera-specific hacks to work around its painfully slow rendering engine (which ironically is the reason it's such a pleasa

For a while we were putting in little Opera-specific hacks to work around its painfully slow rendering engine (which ironically is the reason it's such a pleasant browser to develop against) I've only used Opera since it became free in version 9, but it's always seemed a lot faster than Firefox and IE. It's even gotten noticeably faster upon all the significant updates I've seen. It's surprising to see you describe Opera as IE-like (broken) and slow, but since you probably have more experience in these things, I'll have to take your word for it.