If people did not report the volume of bugs and suggestions, they would probably not be a success. People like the writer of this comment. The bug report feature was my idea, the new feature where you enter the address, or keywords into the address line and it finds matching bookmarks and history was my idea, in matter of fact most of the little improvements in 9 and 8 where my ideas I submitted. I was one of those people that suggested making it into a OS (front end particularly on embedded) running Java programs (makes me wonder if that is why they went to widgets) but still no separate runnable independent transfer function (or did they). I have submitted so many that I keep finding them implemented and then remember it was something I submitted. If you generally want to know what sort of workflow improvements are coming to Opera, ask me. They know who I am, apparently I was considered for a job there, but did not hear anything else. I could have left to go to Mozilla, or MS, and lucky i did not. What I have noticed is so many more bugs turning up though in 8 and particularly 9, I hesitate to upgrade, but then I don't want to be stuck with the volume of bugs I reported about the version I'm using. They keep breaking it and it keeps coming through. Even when something is working, it might not be working in future. I hope they take notice of my recent suggestion for test procedures (as a information technology designer, I have kept the more advanced version to myself).

How about upgrading the spellchecker dictionary editing, dictionary, follow check, resume etc? It is opensource, you might not want to do it, but that should not take too long, and the customisation could be made to be specific to working with Opera.

Annoyed.

I develop for the web and have for 15 years. If I had to use any other browser it woud take me more time to do my work.

Sometimes poeple have a little trouble getting used to Opera if they're used to a more simple browser. But, persist, it's absolutley worth the effort.

Usually articles such as this have a compimentary link to the subjects website. So why no link?


[ http://www.opera.com/

That was hard wasn't it? Mod.]

Opera USED to be awesome. The 9.5x line ruined it. 9.60 final out today and it's the same CRAP.

Checkout the demented scrolling and tabs. Just YUCK. Memory use and gdi objects leaked are still horrible. Dozens of other little annoyances that add to why it has less then 5% marketshare.

This tubby Norwegian guy is a FAILURE. A decade of what? He can't even give away his product.

I used to use Opera for years before I used Firefox. It was, and probably still is superior in performance to Firefox when accessing local cache. Meaning, hitting the Forward or Back button is an almost instantaneous result. What made me switch to Firefox exclusively in both Linux and Windows, is the "Adblock Plus" and "Flash Block" add-on. If Opera could duplicate these features, I'd drop Firefox like a hot rock!

Cheers! :)

The world (of technology) is full of people "being first" with something. Guess what: being first doesn't matter - being best (or biggest) is all that matters.

To do some of the work of No Script or Firekeeper.

http://www.0x000000.com/index.php?i=300&bin=100101100

It was NetCaptor in 1997.

They need to concentrate on their very poor RSS implementation - the inbuilt RSS reader likes to strip subscribed webpages of images and layout. Firefox's model is much better. Their Ad blocking support is good, but still not as good as Adblock and NoScript...

Other than that, best browser around.
Though I notice that google will refuse to let you access gmail with it - unless you pretend to be using firefox/ie.

Actually, Opera's spoofing feature is a great way of exposing some companies (ms and google's) monopolistic practices - "Oh, our side doesn't work on that browser, use ours instead". Errr... how come it works if I tell you it's firefox then?

I have tried everything else on offer, and always come back to Opera, it offers exactly what I need, without any bloat, or need for addons.

The fact it's also the fastest, most secure, and feature packed browser out the box is a bonus, the fact it's available for almost every platform on the planet, is unique.

Long may Opera continue to rule, I just hope they get some more of the marketshare they truely deserve.

I first started looking at Opera around V4.sommit, ended up switching around 5.1 and have never looked back. These days I find it funny when people say they use X because of feature Y and I reply; but Operas had that since version Z and even now Opera is the only browser with a true MDI where your tabs can be any size (well, to the best of my knowledge!).

It might not be to everyone's taste and you can argue about site "compatibility" all you want and that it's not open-source, but I love it, and I think it really is a fantastic product that more people should investigate.

I never liked IE. IE5 was a version I considered "barely usable" and, sadly, Netscape was out of the game by that time.
So I gave Opera a try, several times in my web-lifetime. Fact is, when you browse, you don't want to be distracted, and that flashy POS ad that Opera included in the toolbar was driving me nuts.
So, out came Firefox 0.93. It was love at first sight: it was OSS, and it didn't have ads! Sure, it was kinda buggy, but who cared? By the time Opera removed the ads in their browser, Firefox was well established, and I had no intentions of trying it again.