A few times in my lifeI was trying to fight against monopoly of microsoft on my computer, a couple years ago I finally won. Now I have Ubuntu Linux on my home and office PCs. As you might know there is no Internet Explorer in Linux, most of the distributions of Linux have Firefox installen for browsing the Web. So, both of my computers have FireFox preinstallen. But this browser is a little heavy on resources and sometimes behaves not well under slow oldish hardware, and here I remembered Opera. Opera is Norwegian web browser which was designed with speed in mind,After close comparison between browsers that I have used before Opera definately wins by speed of opening pages. However, Google's Chrome is stepping on tail and eats even less resources than Opera. But there is no Chrome for Linux yet, I dont even think that Google will daire to release Chrome for Linux in near future. That means I will use Opera on my old pentium 2 with IceBuntu Linux on it. I didnt do benchmark tests myself, there are plenty of people who did it and proved that Opera is fast. I just want to recommend you - if you are using old slow computer, and want to surf Internet without slow-downs, Opera is the choise for you. I use this browser on my telephone too. Opera mobile is also the fastest according to my experience.

You can find more information and downloads on the product site: http://www.opera.com