Just for comparison, just found out my PSP supports Flash Player 6.

tbh, that link isn't particularly useful, as it talks about opera 9 and firefox 1.5, when we're actually on opera 10, and firefox 2.0.

Step by step comparison between the Wii and PS3 web browser

http://www.games-digest.com/2007/04/is_wii_or_the_p.html

Wii is considered better over all

I don't think i've used the web browser even once when i've needed to.. but some family members have..

Laptop is always more convinient than any TV internet device ever was

In reference to Opera being faster etc. have a look at this:
http://www.apple.com/uk/safari/

Although it's presumably biased towards the Safari browser (as it was done on an iMac running Windows XP), it's likely to be unbiased about FF and Opera.

As you can, the only time that Opera is markedly better is with JavaScript Performance, and even then it's less than a second's difference, and on HTML performance, FF is nearly 3 seconds faster (half the time). I'm sorry, but I've tried all 4 of those broswers, and there isn't much difference, but IE 7 is definately slower, and I would say Opera adn FF are about equal on processing power and load times. Also I would say running them on this PC is about equal to the Wii, as the one I use for Internet Browsing has an 800mhz PIII, 256mb of RAM and 32mb nVidia TNT2, which I presume is fairly close to the Wii's specs.

To be honest that link isn't usefull either. It compares firefox2 with opera 9, while we are on opera 10. Strange that you pointed out almost this exact point before, but did it yourself.

It was interesting that Opera9 was better than firefox 2 though.

The thing you didn't take into account is that Opera work in a very user specific matter, they design their browser according to the device. While you have used the browser that is available online for PCs, the Opera browser for Wii was obviously tweaked, just like their browser for mobile phones are.

I have to admit now, I am too used to firefox and thunderbird to switch.

The plan since the beginning was that the final version would be free for a period of time.  They didn't nix any plans.

Opera was always going to be something they did a one time charge for, and multiplayer was always ment to be free.  The plans for neither have changed, so I don't quite follow your logic

 opps, didn't notice that was opera 9, well that post isn't much good then

Except the Wii has 24+64MiB RAM, and memory can be far more important than CPU speed for browsing.