I use Opera for Web/Mail stuff. Our company has an anti-MicroSoft approach to software (yet I'm typing away on a Windows 2000 Pro Dell), which results in OpenOffice instead of MS Office, and most people use FireFox / Thunderbird combination.
For the work I do, I spend a lot of time in a browser, or sending mails, so there's no point in closing either clients down, and my mail client is setup to check mails every 2mins (SLAs that mean if a customer query isn't at least looked at within 15mins of it arriving, we get shouted at). Due to this, I found quite a high level of memory leaks - or rather memory that wasn't efficiently used/freed with Firefox and Thunderbird. It wasn't unusual for me to have to end task Firefox every day with it running at over 330Mb RAM used. Thunderbird was better, but still needed killing every few days.
With Opera, I see non of those issues, it does both jobs, and never exceeds 40Mb RAM. Oh yea, and better news, Opera have done away with the dirty great big advert on top of the screen!
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