hauled up in the press for deliberately ruining its output to Opera's web browsers. Now Opera has hit back in style.

Opera has released a version of its latest web browser that works properly on every site but one. Visit MSN using the special version of the browser and you'll find all the words are turned into the language of the Swedish chef from The Muppet Show.

The new version, called the Bork edition, is available for download from the Opera site. Mary Lambert of Opera said, "this is a joke. However, we are trying to make an important point. The MSN site is sending Opera users what appear to be intentionally distorted pages. The Bork edition illustrates how browsers could also distort content."

She continued, "the real point here is that the success of the Web depends on software and Web site developers behaving well and rising above corporate rivalry." According to Opera, after the press furore MSN now works with Opera 7 but is still ruining the pages output to earlier versions.

If you fancy a bit of a laugh, the modified browser is available for download here along with all of the details of the story. Go have fun with it if you want to see MSN as a bunch of muppets.
Download :

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/custom...2656b_bork.exe