Opera web browser

[graffiti]

Has anyone here ever used/use Opera web browser, I got told about it earlier decided to download it and I think it's really good, it even has a spelling check thing :l

[Jamesy]

most browsers these days have spellcheckers.

I use opera, find speed-dial very handy. I won't give it long before the silly boycotters come along and complain about it.

[Stephen!]

Decided to avoid opera after what they did to Microsoft.

[Black_Apalachi]

Despite the crap they did with Microsoft I found it to be a really good browser - as good as Firefox at the time. But FF went crap and I moved on to Chrome before the EU episode.

[graffiti]

What did they do o.o

[Stephen!]

They took them to court or something which prevented them from including Internet Explorer with Windows 7 in Europe. I don't know if they did or didn't though.

[Jamesy]

They took them to court or something which prevented them from including Internet Explorer with Windows 7 in Europe. I don't know if they did or didn't though.

If I remember right, opera filed the claim and acted like numpties towards ever concession microsoft made. Google and Mozilla/ firefox joined in on Opera's side.

[Black_Apalachi]

If I remember right, opera filed the claim and acted like numpties towards ever concession microsoft made. Google and Mozilla/ firefox joined in on Opera's side.

Microsoft just gave in for some reason. I didn't know Google and Mozilla jumped on the band wagon?! :O

[HotelUser]

Despite the crap they did with Microsoft I found it to be a really good browser - as good as Firefox at the time. But FF went crap and I moved on to Chrome before the EU episode.

If we're not going to use products from a company because of the "crap" they've pulled then we shouldn't be using products from Microsoft or Apple at all.

[Black_Apalachi]

If we're not going to use products from a company because of the "crap" they've pulled then we shouldn't be using products from Microsoft or Apple at all.

I didn't say that, quite the opposite in fact. I had moved on from Opera before any of this emerged.

[Suspective]

I don't use it anymore, since you can't use WYSIWYG on it ;)

[Barmi]

Microsoft just gave in for some reason. I didn't know Google and Mozilla jumped on the band wagon?! :O
Yes, there was plenty of bandwagoning which is why it's ridiculous when so many idiots on here apportion the blame on Opera. Heck, it's not like domestic civil litigation where it would have been Opera and Microsoft... it was the EU who investigated an anti-trust claim about Microsoft. Totally different, and I wish people would grasp that.

Are we forgetting that Mozilla are the ones to be complaining about? After Microsoft revealed a mockup of their "browser chooser", Mozilla were complaining that Apple's Safari was first in the list (alphabetical by company), and gave a number of suggestions which, funnily enough, would have put Firefox first. One of the ridiculous ideas was to put them in order of market share, but put IE last. Truly ridiculous.

I don't hold anything against Opera. Their involvement was totally blown out of proportion by people who quite frankly don't have a clue. They have a quality web browser.

[Janet Snakehole]

i'm not really a fan of Opera :(

[Jahova]

After Microsoft. No.

[Laurensh1]

I never tried it and have nothing against it...
Firefox and Chrome do for me.

[Black_Apalachi]

Yes, there was plenty of bandwagoning which is why it's ridiculous when so many idiots on here apportion the blame on Opera. Heck, it's not like domestic civil litigation where it would have been Opera and Microsoft... it was the EU who investigated an anti-trust claim about Microsoft. Totally different, and I wish people would grasp that.

Are we forgetting that Mozilla are the ones to be complaining about? After Microsoft revealed a mockup of their "browser chooser", Mozilla were complaining that Apple's Safari was first in the list (alphabetical by company), and gave a number of suggestions which, funnily enough, would have put Firefox first. One of the ridiculous ideas was to put them in order of market share, but put IE last. Truly ridiculous.

I don't hold anything against Opera. Their involvement was totally blown out of proportion by people who quite frankly don't have a clue. They have a quality web browser.

I blame the EU tbh. I did wonder about how Opera managed to cause such an uproar all by themselves :rolleyes:. Do we know what the final browser chooser is like?

Opera is still my second best browser after Chrome. I rate Firefox equal to IE now, based on the final experiences I had with it.

[The Professor]

Yes, there was plenty of bandwagoning which is why it's ridiculous when so many idiots on here apportion the blame on Opera. Heck, it's not like domestic civil litigation where it would have been Opera and Microsoft... it was the EU who investigated an anti-trust claim about Microsoft. Totally different, and I wish people would grasp that.

Are we forgetting that Mozilla are the ones to be complaining about? After Microsoft revealed a mockup of their "browser chooser", Mozilla were complaining that Apple's Safari was first in the list (alphabetical by company), and gave a number of suggestions which, funnily enough, would have put Firefox first. One of the ridiculous ideas was to put them in order of market share, but put IE last. Truly ridiculous.

I don't hold anything against Opera. Their involvement was totally blown out of proportion by people who quite frankly don't have a clue. They have a quality web browser.

Aha, it seems so long ago we got together to take down the bandwagoners :D

Yeah its a shame that horribly biased and malinformed news story was given any exposure on here because it seems to have skewed the opinions of a lot of people (according to opera's market share a good number of them had probably never touched it anyway). Personally I love the thing, I use it on my media centre and my main desktop pc because the speed dial, password management, basic email and RSS support all work so flawlessly; its just a really good well polished package with a ton of features. Firefox seems a bit rougher around the edges (massive stability issues with 3.5) and chrome is too lightweight and featureless for me to use it as my main browser but I use it on the laptop for precisely that reason. Never really bothered with safari, I just don't really like the appleish skin they have on it.

So yeah, awesome under appreciated browser that gets far too much unfair stick because a company (together with GOOGLE AND MOZILLA who make CHROME AND FIREFOX) decided to bother to speak up in support of something. Some things just get blown way out of proportion :(

[Kyle!]

Opera's font rendering is HORRIBLE. I don't know what exactly it is, but compared to Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari the fonts look huge compared to them, and they just don't look right, which is why I don't use it.

[The Professor]

Have you changed a font setting somewhere by accident? Mine's fine!