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I don't know the details, but for me the problem is simple:

• if it's because of Opera's bug or lack of neccessary feature, it's Opera's fault and go complain to bugs.opera.com/wizard.
• if it's because website uses crappy code, broken browser-detection - get the damn website fixed

Market share, not being open-source or having lame name does not define whether browser can handle pages properly or not. Opera, in most cases, perfectly can.

Unless you are doing a lot of Ajax it isn't hard to support Opera. The only reason is because you are lazy.

I'll start with the disclaimer first: I work at Opera Software, with Web applications. Then I'll continue with an honest-to-god question, as I have more of an interest in understanding why people's sentiments are as they are:

Where does the misconception that Opera can't do "a lot of Ajax" come from? Because it clearly can, for instance, see Aida, the Ajax phone -- a rather massive Ajax framework and appplication running on top of Opera Platform (a runtime which provides access to certain aspects of the device, such as battery status, connectivity, message stores and such).

While you are correct that the current release of FF does not pass the acid2 test, it is worth noting that the code to correct this is and achieve acid2 compliance is included in the current development branch of FF, and it will be operational in the next release.

The "development branch", the "alpha", the "beta" and the "release candidate" don't count. If you want to compare development branches, Opera, Konqueror, and Safari make Firefox look even more pathetic.

Maybe MS is somehow is benefiting from the endless cycles of MSIE-based spyware, viruses, and general security problems. If not, then it (and we) would be much better off if MS should drop MSIE completely. Where does MS come out ahead financially? MSIE is probably the largest single public relations problem as well as one of largest security and productivity problems that MS produces these days.

The Netscape/DOJ v MS has been over for years. MSIE wastes our time, it wastes MS time. There's simply no need for anyone, even MS, to be wasting resources with MSIE. The public certainly has no reason to let MS foist on them such low quality security hole masquerading as a useful application. Drop MSIE or let users uninstall it completely.

Firefox and Opera are what people are using anyway. Go with the flow and invest the resources that would have gone into trying to keep life in MSIE go somewhere they'll actually have a chance of doing good.

Learn to browser?
Firefox
Opera

Make sure you check out the add-ons for Firefox, such as NoScript and AdBlock.

Ignorance is an expensive habit to maintain.

Try again.. http://my.opera.com/operamini/blog/2006/11/30/palm -users-please-download-3-0-again-n

You may now try again with Palm...

http://my.opera.com/operamini/blog/show.dml/593477

Nokia N80 built in browser=Opera Mobile licensed to Nokia. (Here is how Opera makes money)

http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products/s60/

Of course it is a full feature browser since your phone has a operating system based on Symbian.

This is good for J2ME only devices while I used Mini for reading a simple article from Wikipedia on my S60 phone since it was compressed and faster.

When you have a working real life solution in hand which is run on millions (if not hundreds of millions) mobile phones, you got something to say to companies while trying to sell these:

http://www.opera.com/products/devices/

Also it seems they got deal with Google which is also effective in this product (default search engine).

Did you ever wonder why MS sunk billions of dollars in IE even while they are at court for monopoly? That was done with evil agenda, Opera supported nothing but open web standards since it was founded.

So they got "karma" enough to type mini.opera.com in my K700i J2ME 2 phone wap browser right after reading this headline.

Best for Symbian S60 is the "real" Opera mobile, it is a real browser even includes flash support.

http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/

According to the Opera Mini forums (http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id =168423) the problem has been identified and fixed. A new download might be in order. Now, if only Palm would pay IBM to make a new version of the JVM with less bugs... The current JVM is from 2004 IIRC, and riddled with bugs (hint: a Java app shouldn't be able to crash a phone).

I had the same problem with my 700p, but, thanks to some help on the Opera forums, was able to find the link to Opera Mini 2, so you can "downgrade" until such time that the Palm-related issues are ironed out in Opera Mini 3.

http://mini.opera.com/global/opera-mini-2.0.4509-a dvanced-int.prc

Perhaps it might also bypassing the need to buy Opera, as it sounds like it's already built in.

So ... what's next?

Will we be getting a news story about a Hacker who had installed the Wiis web-browser on his PC by going to http://www.opera.com/ ?

Patch is available

If you have a Java-capable phone, try Opera Mini. It's not perfect, but it blows most phones' built-in browsers out of the water.

http://my.opera.com/Nplus/blog/show.dml/493596

According to Shinichiro Tamaki of Nintendo's Integrated R&D team;

Basically, we've designed it so that you can exchange information with your registered friends. I'll give an example of the kind of information that could be exchanged. Let's say someone buys a new game. When they switch on their console, a question could appear on the screen: "Do you want to let your friends know you have bought this game?" If you select "Yes", the message "X has bought the game Y!" will pop up on your friends' Message Boards. You can send messages like that from within the game, or you can make your own message to send to your friends. Actually, the example I just gave is still under discussion and has not been finalised yet. But I think it gives you an idea of the kinds of things that would be possible.

Does not work as well as one would hope. See http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id= 165023 for more info. Some video gets squashed, cropped, double controls seen, both in Opera and FF.

Hey, I'm in the happy Orange £4 a meg club too. The only thing I've found which assuages my impotent rages is the Opera mobile browser. - http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/.
It compresses the data before it gets to your phone,and YMMV but I get about 30-50% extra for the money. Sadly, it's so much better than the comedy Orange browser that I use it twice as often.

"A Deepness in the Sky" is a excellent novel. If you like SF, it's a must read.

Those few Slashdot readers for whom buying a paper book would be impractical can get an electronic text on a pirate channel. <pirate> Launch an IRC chat client (Opera browser has one built in) and join the room bookz on Undernet, Europe. Once there, enter the line

!EBrarian Hugo 2000 Winner Novel - Vinge, Vernor - A Deepness in the Sky.rar

For simplicity I have skipped the search stage here, listing a file that would probably be accessible for some time. You could get a list of all files by typing e.g.

@seek Vinge Deepness Sky

</pirate>

A few helpful sites: Opera Firefox K-Melon"

Oddly enough, some of us haven't experienced any more instability in Firefox than Opera. Seriously, I use Firefox 2 about 80% of the time and Opera 9 about 20%, and they both crash at the same (low) rate.

Incidentally, I don't see any posts saying that the crasher isn't a flaw, and anyone who does say so is an idiot (no matter what their favorite browser is). Software should not crash, and assuming a stable environment, any crash is a flaw. There are arguments over terminology -- i.e. can a crash bug be properly considered a denial of service vulnerability or not. Even Opera devs are of the opinion that a crash bug isn't a security issue unless it (a) can execute arbitrary code or (b) can prevent you from restarting the browser.

Which non-x86 platforms? There are Opera 9.02 builds for Linux on PPC and SPARC. (Hey, if you don't want to use it just because it's not F/OSS, that's a perfectly valid stance to have, I'm just pointing out that Opera is actually pretty well ported.)

Which non-x86 platforms? There are Opera 9.02 builds for Linux on PPC and SPARC. (Hey, if you don't want to use it just because it's not F/OSS, that's a perfectly valid stance to have, I'm just pointing out that Opera is actually pretty well ported.)

The only valid recourse for anybody who doesn't like the bugs is to either fix them, write a better browser altogether, or switch browsers, but good luck finding a better browser.

Bush says it's a Goddam piece of paper

or this

(will this be modded troll like the above or informative because its not microsoft? stupid mods.)

Well, there are more options than Internet Explorer or Firefox. Opera for instance. I myself hate the fact that if you specify firefox to always open links in a new tab, and not a new instance, it still now and then opens up a new browserwindow.
Amaya is a browser made by the w3consortium. I haven't tried it yet, but a browser made by them, well I'd expect it to adhere all the standards :)
You've also still got Netscape but that browser hasn't been a serious competitor for a while now'but it's still available if someone'd like to try :)

I'm afraid I'm still an opera fanboy. Like the looks, like the usage, like that it's crossplatform, like that it had tabbed browsing back in 1999.
If I had the time I would've tried amaya and would have written something more like a review, but I'm afraid I'm quite short on time at the moment.

10) Opera browser.

Parent, you may trust it more than IE, but here's where Opera comes in. I'm not going to preach to you, but check it out.

The ability to close and continue sessions later removes a major reason why many people kept their browsers open
If you want that out of the box and don't like v2 you should try Opera - it has been a standard there for years now.

firefox has a dtd bug in xml it hasn't fixed for years: it doesn't reference external entities

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69799

and opera flat out just doesn't support xsl formatting

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#xml

nevermind ie7, ie6 does both, just fine

in my book, as an xml/ xsl programmer, ie is light years ahead of firefox and opera

I just wish Opera would copy Firefoxs Adblock feature...

I just wish Opera would copy Firefoxs Adblock feature...

yeah, you can download it here

The dont have a native version yet for Sumbian series 60 v3 yet, just s60 v2.

Yes they do, most if not all Nokia's Symbian S60 3rd edition devices are supported: Opera Mobile download page

He is Norwegian/A.

[mac] http://snapshot.opera.com/mac/o910w_3539.dmg [unix] http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/Weekly-466/ [win] http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o910w_8629m.exe

[mac] http://snapshot.opera.com/mac/o910w_3539.dmg [unix] http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/Weekly-466/ [win] http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o910w_8629m.exe

[mac] http://snapshot.opera.com/mac/o910w_3539.dmg [unix] http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/Weekly-466/ [win] http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o910w_8629m.exe

According to Opera's mobile product page there is a 30-day trial version available for download.

Tell me what they send to their server is actually a hash of the URL with a huge salt.

No.

No

My internet crap blocker won't let me access the download site on *.atdmt.com. Hmmmm. It must be trying to tell me something. Back to browsing safely.

I have Wikipedia and the rest of the Web on my mobile phone, using Opera Mini. It works great, running on almost any phone with Java. Here's a screenshot., and the Opera Mini simulator can be found here.

I have Wikipedia and the rest of the Web on my mobile phone, using Opera Mini. It works great, running on almost any phone with Java. Here's a screenshot., and the Opera Mini simulator can be found here.

I have Wikipedia and the rest of the Web on my mobile phone, using Opera Mini. It works great, running on almost any phone with Java. Here's a screenshot., and the Opera Mini simulator can be found here.

...I've been accessing Wikipedia often on my phone, using the Opera Mini browser. If it will work on your phone (Java), then you can just view the normal site. It looks great.

They supplied a graphic on this webpage of the cave dwelling creatures with a big head, eyes and ears. http://my.opera.com/bcdc/albums/showpic.dml?album= 35555&picture=394395 I'm not sure which one is the new species.