• Opera's 1.5 million users have made it the Web's third most popular browser.

Opera is faster and more compact, configurable, and standards-compliant than most browsers. That and a new email feature make Opera 5.x a strong contender in the browser market. Experienced Web browsers and power surfers will learn to take full advantage of Opera's surprisingly powerful capabilities, including how to open multiple windows without running out of memory, retrieve multiple documents simultaneously, and navigate entirely with the keyboard. The CD-ROM includes trial versions of Opera 5.x for all platforms, as well as many additional utilities like Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0, and demos of Shockwave Flash 4 and GetRight, Opera File Explorer, and Opera Windows Controller.

• Read Chapter 3: The Software Side of the Net.

J.S. LYSTER is an active member of the Opera beta test group. The owner of Lyster Publications, a desktop publishing and Web design service, he has been addicted to computers since age 15 when he got a Sinclair ZX-81 computer for Christmas. Lyster lives in Powell River, British Columbia.