It took Opera 7.50 for me to finally see some decent italic text in Linux. Opera 7.50 seems quite spiffy and revamped (the ad bar at the top has become smaller and less intrusive -- looks like they have taken a leaf out of Google's book). Only peeve is that Gmail doesn't support Opera (yet?). Masquerading as IE6 doesn't get you anywhere because Gmail asks you where the &*%? are your ActiveX controls.