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On FireFox 3.03 (vs. Opera 9.5):

First the bad bits in FireFox...
~ COLOR CUSTOMIZING is untweakable [their color chips only]. If it's important to you, go to Opera [but beware: its is buggy and complex].
~ "UNDELETE LAST CLOSED TAB" should be built-in, rather than a crash-losable and probably destabilizing/slowing extension.
~ GO BACK ONE PAGE is hit and miss [but is so on other browsers too].
~ ERRATIC FLASH SUPPORT. If it works for you, congrats. For many, like me, it comes and goes, like Quicktime and Javascript.
~NO SEARCH-BOOKMARKS SHORTCUT. [Doh!]
~ SCROLLING IS JERKY so needs smoothing available only thru extensions that may slow and destabilize.
~ NO USER-SETTABLE WALLPAPER [Even just a few paper textures would be nice. Any extension writers out there listening? And why no drop-shadows on tap [for text or images]? Text Shadow extension was promisng but did nada. However, these are feature requests, not beefs; i digress.
~ FLASH [etc.] VIDEOS DOWNLOADS require extensions, which slow and destabilize FF. Ironic: Flash plays more consistently in Opera, but saves better in FireFox.
~ BULK DOWNLOADS REQUIRE DOWNTHEMALL, another! extension. P.S: it can forget its target directory, requiring re-input, making Opera's native Shift+Control+L >select files > right click > save to download folder slightly preferable.
~ CHANGE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE applies only to Mozilla's "B-List". If your engine isn't there, tough.
~ NO ZOOM-TO-FIT like Opera. But that's a quibble really, given XP's cntrl+mouse wheel command.
~ BOOKMARK MANGER IS INDUSTRY [SUB-] STANDARD [when oh when will somebody deliver a drag n' drop interface so one can simply drag unsorted bookmarks into different folders!? Any developers listening?].
~ ITS DEPENDENCE ON EXTENSIONS MAKES IT AN EASIER TARGET FOR MALWARE. So Opera is safer.
~ ITS DEPENDENCE ON EXTENSIONS PRODUCES CONFLICTS BETWEEN THEM. I.e. NoScript blocks Flash.
~IT'S KLUNKY. Yes, this is subjective but here's a concrete example. Its scroll bars are fixed and enlarge with any page zoom. Operas are narrower, don't enlarge with page zoom, and even disappear in full-screen mode. Nice.
Opera may be a bit on the tofu mimimalism side but is so sleekly responsive that it feels faster [and benchmarks be damned].
~ WORST OF ALL: probably due to extensions, it can be ruinously unstable.

OPERA: slightly better security, sleekness [thinner and hideable scrollbars, zoom-to-fit etc.], and better [if harder] color-customizing.
FIREFOX: doesn't scramble pages, d/l's Flash, doesn't load pages jerkily as Opera [what were they thinking!?], has great developer momentum, more extensions, its "Web Archives" actually work, and has XP's ALT+Tab'ing as Ctrl+Tab'ing!

CONCLUSION: If FireFox is stable for you, go for it because capable beats pretty. And Mozilla will get around to improving its looks, I hope....