For this reason alone (aside from a passionate hatred for ie) I would download Opera! I personally loved the Swedish Chef!

Norwegian software group Opera took a swipe at U.S. giant Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) on Friday by issuing a an Internet browser that converts text on Microsoft’s Web Site into the nonsense language of a popular television puppet.

When Opera users visit Microsoft’s MSN site (http://www.msn.com/) with the new browser, the text displayed there appears to them in a language mimicking that of the Swedish chef on the popular “Muppet Show,” Opera said in a statement.

“This joke is for real,” Opera’s chief technology officer Haakon Wium Lie told Reuters.

Opera calls its new browser the “Bork edition” after the “Bork, Bork, Bork!” sound made by the Swedish chef Muppet.

In the chef’s mock Swedish, the MSN site headline “Weekend movie guide” is rendered “Veekend mufeee-a gooeede-a” and “Looking for a new car?” is “Luukeeng fur a noo cer?” to Opera browser users.

On other sites, including Opera’s own (http://www.opera.com/), the browser functions normally.

An Opera executive said the aim was to protest what Opera alleges is Microsoft’s practice of making software that prevents users of the Opera browser — a rival of Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer — from viewing pages correctly.

Microsoft’s spokesman Jim Desler had no immediate comment on Opera’s allegations.
Lie said: “We are saying that it is wrong to corrupt the Web and distort pages like Microsoft is doing by sending Opera browsers what seem to be intentionally distorted pages.”
Lie said companies, including Microsoft, needed to cooperate and act responsibly or the Internet would fail.