I am running Vista Home Basic x64 and currently have Firefox 3.01 installed. I am intrigued by Opera 9.5 though, and I even quickly threw it on to give it a test drive.

First of all, and I know others will argue this, but I didn't think it was that much faster than Firefox, so I was a little disapointed there, though I did find it to be more stable. But I understand there are things you can do to make it browse faster, like some add-ons or extensions. Is that true?

Everything else, from the short time I viewed it seemed ok. But but one thing that did bug me was the search box. It's so small!! Is there anyway to lengthen or stretch it out to a custom size?

That's all