[Tfug] Opera Web Browser

[christopher floess]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Charles R. Kiss
<charles at kissbrothers.com> wrote:
> Tired of being disappointed at how web pages were displayed by
> Firefox/Iceweasel, I switched to Opera.
>
> For now, Opera seems much better than Firefox/Iceweasel...in fact, I think
> Opera is awesome! I like the skins, it displays everything perfectly, it
> seems as fast. I seems to have a huge base of support.  I have it running on
> a 64 chroot 32, and Flash is perfect; Java is perfect, etc.
>
> Is there anything "bad" I should know about it?  Security wise.  Or is it
> "uncool" to use, made in a Communist country by criminals?
>
> How come I don't hear about it.

I used to love opera, and used it exclusively. They only problem with
it is that there are some support issues since no one develops for it.
You can search my thread about gmail. For the longest time I had to
used an older version of gmail, and then one day I couldn't get gmail
running at all. I guess it was a matter of a few days that I had to
use Firefox to get in.

I'm sure the bug is fixed now, but I wouldn't be surprised if Opera
was still served up a scaled back interface when you log into gmail.

I finally made the switch to FF after I had to use it for an online
class through Pima, and I discovered that you can now 'create
searches' in FF like in opera. That's the one feature that I never
want to live without again. I wouldn't be surprised if I had 30 custom
searches, maybe more, considering I duplicate most of my searches in
two languages.

Anyway, I like Opera. I'm glad to here people are using it ~ Chris