[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]That is a pretty bad excuse for using it. You are trading less security for being harder to find? This does not bode well if anyone deliberately targets you.[/citation]
If you read the post, you'd see it was a secondary issue, not the primary. To me, it's simply the best browser to use. You have the followers who use IE and Firefox, which I don't have a problem with, so long as they've tried the others. Some of it is personal preference, but most people have never even tried others.
I don't know how people can use IE. It's such an obnoxious browser, and it's slow. Firefox I can understand.
The main reason I use Opera is it's available on virtually any version of Windows. I was fixing a friend's PC, that was running on Windows ME. He was suffering with IE 6. Firefox doesn't support it with any recent releases, and there was a lot of things he couldn't run with Flash. So, we upgraded him to Opera, and all of the sudden his computer can run a lot more things. If I have to support computers, I'd prefer they all use the same browser since I don't have to remember 150 different things. On top of this, I just think Opera is easier to use, and better.
The frosting on the cake is market share for IE is going to create the most attacks. Firefox will start getting them too. It's the main reason - I don't worry about this type of crap at all. But, it is reality if you do worry about it. And where is it written that IE is more secure than Opera? From what I have seen, all the attacks are on IE. That's not a good reason to think it's more secure.