The best versions of Opera and Firefox probably came out in 2009 at the latest
Well, at least I'm not the only one who thinks so.
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-suckfest.htmlOpera started down the same path already a few years back, and obviously took it to extremes by literally taking the Chromium code instead of wasting time removing features.
And somehow they've managed to make it look even worse than Chrome.