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title: Opera 5
date: "2001-06-08T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1804
description: I'm switching from Internet Explorer to Opera 5.11, favoring its innovative zoom function and mouse gestures over IE's table-pasting capabilities. I hope Opera survives the browser wars as Netscape's influence continues to fade.
keywords: [opera browser, mouse gestures, zoom function, internet explorer, netscape navigator, browser wars]
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I shifted from Netscape Navigator to Internet Explorer because I could cut and paste tables from IE to Excel. But now that I've downloaded [Opera 5.11](http://www.opera.com), used its zoom function, it's gesture keys, and so on, I'm moving over to Opera. Long live Opera! (Which, given [Netscape's fate](http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010606/n05260410_2.html), is perhaps no more than a fond hope.)